Re: I Wonder About Tapering Doses at End of Round

[Guest guest]

>

> Instead of suddenly stopping a round cold turkey, I wonder if tapering

> down dose at the end would be helpful to minimize distribution.

Andy has advised against tapering dose at the end of rounds. Part of

his protocol is stopping cold.

What happens is that the distribution is prolonged over time if the

dose is tapered and minimized if the round is stopped cold.

Andy has addressed this topic many times. His posts can be found by

using onibasu.com to search autism mercury archives or the ordinary

search engines in this group.

If you are finding that the end of round side effect are too extreme,

then you could try decreasing the dose for the whole round.

J

Seems

> to me like it would. For example if someone were doing a 4 day round

> at 12.5mg DMSA, maybe the last day do 6mg instead, and maybe just 3mg

> for the final dose. My thought is that those smaller doses are not

> enough to go scavenge much more metals from tissues, but they are

> enough to pick up the ones stirred up from the previous higher doses.

> So instead of ending a round abruptly and enduring redistribution,

> take much smaller doses for a little more time to pick up a good bit

> of that stuff before it is redistributed. Redistribution will still

> happen obviously, but hopefully less that it would have been.

>

> Maybe? Maybe not? Just a thought. Yours are welcome.

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Instead of suddenly stopping a round cold turkey, I wonder if

tapering

> down dose at the end would be helpful to minimize distribution.

TK--- no, doesn't work that way.

Seems

> to me like it would. For example if someone were doing a 4 day round

> at 12.5mg DMSA, maybe the last day do 6mg instead, and maybe just 3mg

> for the final dose.

My thought is that those smaller doses are not

> enough to go scavenge much more metals from tissues

TK--- they are and the continued reductions continue the redistribution

of Hg

, but they are

> enough to pick up the ones stirred up from the previous higher doses.

> So instead of ending a round abruptly and enduring redistribution,

> take much smaller doses for a little more time to pick up a good bit

> of that stuff before it is redistributed. Redistribution will still

> happen obviously, but hopefully less that it would have been.

TK--- side effects may or may not be less but the redistribution

period will be longer redistributing more.

>

> Maybe? Maybe not? Just a thought. Yours are welcome.

>