Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Hi , I have been doing 1 mg. per pound for the last 6 months of both DMSA and ALA. I think I've cleared my body burden and just have it in the brain still. I understand now that mercury being pulled from the brain with ALA might only come out in feces, so since I have no urinary excretion, I'm Every 4 hours?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 > > > > Citrus Punch > > > > My chelation doctor has been doing this for a long time and has > observed patients over long-term chelation. I know we have stated > here over and over that the urine tests are useless to track mercury > chelation, but I just would like to address something that came up the > other day. I had another urine test in which I collected my urine > over a 24 hour period during my fourth day of chelation with DMSA and > ALA. Great Smokies did the post challenge test. I came out showing > no measurable mercury excreted. I've been chelating for nine months > now and this is the 3rd urine test they've done on me. The first one > showed high mercury excretion. The second one showed none and this > third one showed none. However, each one of them showed high lead > excretion. So l got my results yesterday and my doctor said that they > see this over and over again, that DMSA will pull lead first and > they've had patients who don't even START to pull mercury for a year > or so. Is this true? Could I be chelating for nine months doing > Andy's protocol and only be pulling lead and no mercury? I could > understand if I were just taking DMSA and it was pulling lead first, > but what about the ALA I'm taking? Shouldn't that be pulling some > mercury out of my brain? > > > > TK: I know that if you see this post, you might be thinking that > these urine tests are useless, but even in " Amalgam Illness " Andy says > " continue chelation until mercury urine excretion is low " . So they > must have some validity if he says that. > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > FWIW, I just finished my 44th round in just under a year. I can do 80 > > > mg of DMSA and 45 mg of ALA every 2.5 hours during the day, 3 hours at > > > night. I have done rounds as high as 100 mg of DMSA with no big deal, > > > but I've been scaling that back a bit since upping the ALA. I'm 228 > > lbs. > > > > Hi , > > > > Thanks for the feedback. Just out of curiosity, did you have a lot > > of symptoms to begin (with either chelator), or not? > > I had more symptoms beginning with DMSA (at 25 mg every 4 hours). > They included leg and foot cramps (needed more minerals), urge to > grind my teeth (needed more zinc), sharp brief headaches, blurriness > of vision, joint and muscle aches, fatigue and mild peripheral > neuropathy. I was very functional though. Do you still get some of these, but just not as severely as before? This is my experience. I do still notice things, but they seem more like minor distractions than real symptoms. Last year, many symptoms were bad enough to interfere in my life on a daily basis. I still have some of the same issues, but vastly reduced in severity (except when my adrenals are stressed, then things get a little worse, but still not like before). > With ALA (33mg every 3 hours), I felt great although it caused more > vision blurriness. (As a side note it is interesting to see that I > haven't really increased my ALA dose much in a year. I've been too > worried about my high copper. At this point I think I've concluded > that use of ALA makes no difference in my hair copper, though. Maybe > working on my thyroid and adrenals will help the copper.) Seems like a good idea. I still haven't done anything about my thyroid. I continue to see it as a " borderline " issue, but perhaps I am mistaken. I am trying to focus on reducing my yeast problems at present - things are very stirred up on that front. Wish I could have some of your copper. Mine is low. -- > Are you low > > plasma cysteine? > > Extreme low end of normal. > > > I have the impression that low plasma cysteine > > people are more likely (but not guaranteed) to tolerate higher doses. > > Or is that just a factoid I have picked up? > > I looked back and I see that I posted here in March that Andy had said > that. However, I no longer remember where I got that. I tried > onibasu, but I didn't have the patience to sift through every time > Andy mentioned cysteine and it might have been stated in one of his > books anyway. > > W. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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