Re: ALA Symptoms

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> When I've been taking ALA about 4-5 days, I'm noticing I feel like a

> bundle of unexplained anger & unable to tolerate anything at all.

> At that point I have to 'retreat' from others and end the round.

>

> Is this common? Do others experience it?

I have heard others report the same thing. On p 203 of AI Andy says

ALA causes " more emotional volatility " .

I've also noticed that some mercury poisoned people who are not

chelating have difficulty controlling their emotions (for me that

means I get weepy, for others angry), so I think of it as a mercury

symptom.

> Does it relate to

> interrupted sleep? Quite honestly, I have no personal reason for

> out-of-whack emotions like this, but it is very reminiscent of 7-8

> years or so while toxicity was building up very quickly after a new

> gold crown. Eventually I reached a point where I was too sick, weak

> & forgetful to care about much of anything. Before that, I used

> to 'get it out' effectively by running & getting a really long,

> hard, sweaty workout.

>

> Could it be that my own cortisol levels kick in inappropriately? A

> feeling of all-body extreme stress where there are no stress factors

> to account for it?

>

Chelating certainly is extra stress.

> Is this something I should consider as anxiety? I don't think I'm

> prone to anxiety or depression and learned to be pretty resourceful

> in keeping myself content with hobbies, etc., although I've tended

> to do things in extremes. If anxiety or depression were going on, I

> relate to it better much earlier in my illness. Once dementia had

> become pretty severe, I really didn't hold things in my brain long

> enough to be bothered and had to just let things go most of the

> time. Because of going through that, I generally have a calmer

> approach to things now.

>After days on ALA, however, it feels like

> I'm going through the roof with anger,

Consider shortening the rounds to 3 days for now until this symptom is

not bothersome.

> with nothing to be angry

> about, and no ability to deal with much of anything. It's really

> hard re-experiencing that sort of thing. Or maybe another way to

> describe it sometimes is that my body is physically tired, yet in an

> odd hyper state that is in inappropriate emotional swings, but

> mentally/socially there's no significant activity or events going on

> to explain it.

>Motor skills (like holding a cup tight) start to

> regress a little, too.

>

> Is this why DMPS works better than DMSA with ALA? If there's a way

> to deal with this and be able to continue on longer rounds, I'd like

> to try it.

>

Lowering the dose.

> Also, if I'm doing quite well at current dosage for 3-4 days, does

> that signify I could increase the ALA dosage? It's currently 12.5

> mg ALA & 50 mg DMSA.

>

I would stick with this dose for now, and 3 day rounds. It's better

to stick with a dose that is working and be able to continue over a

longer period of time than to push too fast, run into problems and

have to stop chelating for some time.

J

> Thanks,

>

> Joanne

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