Re: Need encouragement, and any ideas - Dean

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> Hi ,

> Sorry that you are battling.

> Did this co-ioncide with you starting the Sustained Release T3 as

per the

> 's protocol?

No, these symptoms just started a couple of weeks ago. I was in the

latter half of a cycle then, was off T3 last week, and started a new

cycle a few days ago.

> Are your temperatures up?

Nope. I am really discouraged about this, and I may only do one

more cycle. I feel much more hypothyroid when I am off T3 now -

depression, mostly. Did blood tests last week to see what is

happening and my fT3/fT4 pattern has changed - used to be always

very low fT4 and somewhat higher fT3 with highish TSH in recent

years (2.x). Now I am seeing mid-range fT4 and below range fT3.

I have never had this pattern before as far as I can recall.

No wonder I feel so horrible between cycles!

Regarding temp, I do feel my temps have been more stable in the

early part of the day. They stick around 97.4 until late

afternoon evening when they can fall a degree or more. I know,

I know, it's adrenal, but I can't take HC in the afternoon or

I have trouble sleeping. Well, I haven't tried for awhile...

I need to try ashwagandha in afternoon.

> I wonder if your metablism has quickened and if your tempertures are

up, so

> perhaps some 'warming' of areas has intitiated a vasodilation and a

release

> of metals.

> Perhaps you'll have to do one ALA/DMSA round for every three DMSA

rounds.

Neither DMSA or DMPS have much effect on their own. I can take

75 mg DMSA alone or 37.5 mg DMPS alone and I don't really notice

much. Remember I've already been chelating for over 2 years. And

I did massive amounts of sweating for a couple of years before I

ever heard of chelation or Andy Cutler - so can't be any " fast

pools " of mercury in my body (except a little from redistribution).

I think I really need to use ALA and the only way I am ever going

to get the dose higher is use it as much as possible within bounds

of comfort. My cells are just jam-packed with mercury.

> I know of a person who has to increase his cortisol every time he

adds ALA

> just to make it through the round (he can only tolerate 2mg of ALA).

Then he

> coontinues for a few rounds of DMSA only.

I wish I had done that when I started. I really was in bad shape

the first six months of chelation without adrenal support and I did

not appreciate this fact. Total blind denial. Perhaps a death wish.

> It is not worth doing harm and it seems that your dosage is too

high. Your

> body may have to catch up on the metals the ALA released and needs a

break

> from it.

It is much better today. Maybe the 8 mg dose is clearing things,

but doing it without stirring things up so much as the 16 mg. I

am still having some little tingle feelings, but they are localized

here and there, and they come and go instead of being huge, constant,

and intrusive. This is a good example, I think, of the difference

between tolerable and intolerable symptoms.

I am feeling a little icky now, but is probably the extra coconut

oil I took this morning. A big " yucky bite " .

I am getting awfully weary too. Naptime approacheth. This is

always how it is for me. The good old ALA feeling comes and goes

and is short-lived. Oh well, thank heaven for little bursts of

energy. Otherwise I would be totally non-functional.

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> Dean

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