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? 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?

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, 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.

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.

Thanks,

Joanne