Terrified newbie - please help - long.

February 14, 2007

Hi. I'm new to the group, and need a little advice if you guys can

give it to me. I'm not sure of your etiquette here so if this post

is inappropriate, please forgive me.

I'm about 10 months into the LA/DMSA phase of chelation, having had

my fillings out in Nov of 2005. My hair test implied more or less

normal mineral transport, but moderately high mercury and arsenic. A

DPMS challenge (done by my GP back in early 2005 before I knew any

better) saw mercury fall out of me big time so at the very least we

know I've got a problem with that for sure. A lot of my other

symptoms do kind of fit with the arsenic description provided in the

Hair Test Interpretation manual so I think it's a fair bet that there

is some of this in me too. History is interesting in that my mum has

fibromyalgia, my sister has a severe anxiety disorder, I've had tics

and twitches since I was a kid, I had developmental delays, and I'm

an optometrist so have been exposed to thimerasol at work since the

mid 80's. So I'm reasonably sure that I'm both badly poisoned AND

ALSO genetically predisposed to this stuff.

I've been doing my chelation by the book; 100 mg DMSA and 120 mg LA,

three hourly, three days a week, after spending several months doing

DMSA chelation alone after the fillings were removed.

Since about six months into the LA/DMSA phase, (so the past four

months) I've had really terrifying cognitive and neurological

symptoms – memory problems that come and go, difficulty finding words

sometimes, depression on and off, and parasthesias in my legs. None

of these things are getting a whole lot worse since they kicked in a

few months back but they come and go almost at random, on pretty much

a daily basis. It's terrifying me and I'm not sure whether it's the

expected worsening of symptoms discussed in the text, or something

else. For what it's worth, all of the above symptoms – the

depression, funny feelings in my legs, dodgy memory, and getting

words mixed up – I've had to a minor degree before chelation. But

they seem worse and way more scary now.

Anyone got any ideas? I feel kind of scared and alone here and I'd

be grateful to hear what anyone has to say, really. Thanks in

advance, Herb Maynard.

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