Report on Rounds 3 and 4 DMSA

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Staying steady at 25mg DMSA every 4 hours. Round 3 was really short -

in the middle of the second night the (rather quiet) alarm I was

using failed to wake me, so that ended that. I felt good on round,

good on the two days off, and good when I went on to Round 4. I

hoped to stay on round for a full week and do the week on/week off

Andy recommends in AI. And indeed, with a louder alarm, I made it

all the way.

The round ended on Sunday, and I feel fine now on Wed evening, but it

was not a smooth journey from there to here. I felt quite stoned on

Sunday night. I find it quite fun, so I don't mind that. But on

Monday, I just started to feel like crap. Random aches in my body.

Depression. I went to bed on Monday night, expecting it to all be

surely over by Tuesday...?

On Tuesday morning I felt kinda out of it. I set off for work

anyway, and on the bus I had a " moment " . I was staring out the

window, and suddenly got this feeling that I was in a dream. I looked

around and the people around me didn't seem real. They felt like

dream characters that I had conjured up.

I got really scared. " I'm awake and having a dream on the bus, " I

thought " Oh crap. Mercury is probably entering my brain at this very

second. "

I felt fine by the time I got to my destination and did my day of

work, but last night I had an intense nightmare, similar in quality

to the kind I had when I had my amalgams out and my dentist had me on

garlic capsules and chlorella. Felt very depressed this morning.

Saw my shrink and cried and cried. Had to forbid her attempts to

relate my feeling awful to events in my childhood. This is MERCURY.

This is happening NOW. It's REAL.

I guess I'm struggling with people around me not taking this

seriously. That it's not something I conjured up by starting to

chelate. The dump phase was weeks of soul-grinding depression and a

continuous yeast infection. Starting to chelate got me out of that

hole. And yet whenever I bring it up around my girlfriend, she

always brings it back to, " Well, it's not that bad, really. " And

other people have no idea about mercury toxicity and I just find

myself giving mini-educational lectures instead of getting the

sympathy that a simple statement like " I've got the flu " would get.

It sucks.

Anyway, I guess 7 days on is too many for my poor body, and I'll

scale back to 3 or 4 next round. Any other advice/sympathy would be

appreciated. Any tricks to minimise distress during a redistribution

event? I went for a sweat and massage at the Russian Baths today,

seemed to help, maybe I just needed the pampering.