ALA only round finished with DMSA only?

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I'm gonna try some ALA on the next round. I will be using ALA only 4mg

every 2.5 hours in the day and 3 hours at night for 3 days.

If things get rough can I stop the ALA and finish the round with DMSA

only?…..even if I start the round with ALA only?

I assume the answer is no, but I thought I'd check anyway

Sunshine

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>

> I'm gonna try some ALA on the next round. I will be using ALA only

4mg

> every 2.5 hours in the day and 3 hours at night for 3 days.

> If things get rough can I stop the ALA and finish the round with DMSA

> only?…..even if I start the round with ALA only?

Yes.

People often do a round with DMSA and ALA, and continue to take the

DMSA for a few doses or more after they have stopped the ALA.

The advise is always that if things get really rough, stop the round.

I don't see why not continue with DMSA.

I just did an ALA round, while taking DMPS as well, and I had to stop

the ALA early because I missed a dose, then I had to stop the DMPS

because I missed a dose. Sometimes these things can't be helped.

> I assume the answer is no, but I thought I'd check anyway

>

> Sunshine

>

[Guest guest]

> >

> > I'm gonna try some ALA on the next round. I will be using ALA

only

> 4mg

> > every 2.5 hours in the day and 3 hours at night for 3 days.

>

> > If things get rough can I stop the ALA and finish the round with

DMSA

> > only?…..even if I start the round with ALA only?

>

>

> Yes.

>

> People often do a round with DMSA and ALA, and continue to take the

> DMSA for a few doses or more after they have stopped the ALA.

-------------I am not doing this. I will be using ALA only.

>

> The advise is always that if things get really rough, stop the

round.

> I don't see why not continue with DMSA.

--------------but I am not " continuing with DMSA " . Round will be ALA

only....i'm asking if things get rough using ALA only, can I stop/end

the ALA only and then immeditately start DMSA only and then finish

the round with DMSA only? Obviously i would keep the same dosing

schedule/timings.

I still assume this is the wrong thing to do, i assume best to just

stop the round.

Sunshine

> I just did an ALA round, while taking DMPS as well, and I had to

stop

> the ALA early because I missed a dose, then I had to stop the DMPS

> because I missed a dose. Sometimes these things can't be helped.

>

>

>

>

> > I assume the answer is no, but I thought I'd check anyway

> >

> > Sunshine

> >

>

[Guest guest]

In frequent-dose-chelation sunshinep1969 wrote:

> >

> > I'm gonna try some ALA on the next round. I will be using ALA

only

> 4mg

> > every 2.5 hours in the day and 3 hours at night for 3 days.

>

> > If things get rough can I stop the ALA and finish the round with

DMSA

> > only?...even if I start the round with ALA only?

>

>

> Yes.

>

> People often do a round with DMSA and ALA, and continue to take the

> DMSA for a few doses or more after they have stopped the ALA.

-------------I am not doing this. I will be using ALA only.

>

> The advise is always that if things get really rough, stop the

round.

> I don't see why not continue with DMSA.

--------------but I am not " continuing with DMSA " . Round will be ALA

only....i'm asking if things get rough using ALA only, can I stop/end

the ALA only and then immeditately start DMSA only and then finish

the round with DMSA only? Obviously i would keep the same dosing

schedule/timings.

I still assume this is the wrong thing to do, i assume best to just

stop the round.

---------I understand what you are asking/proposing to do, and the safe answer

is, yes, probably just best to stop the round.

But, I think this may have been discussed before, and Cutler *might* have said

it was ok. I think that DMSA works differently than ALA, so this *might* be ok

to do. Because if its ok to start and stop ALA during a chelation round at

different times than DMSA, then maybe it's ok to start DMSA at the end of an ALA

round? But, I don't have time to search archives, and would probably be a hard

post to find, but if you want to do some searching, you might find something on

it. Anybody else remember reading anything like this?----------Jackie

Sunshine

> I just did an ALA round, while taking DMPS as well, and I had to

stop

> the ALA early because I missed a dose, then I had to stop the DMPS

> because I missed a dose. Sometimes these things can't be helped.

>

>

>

>

> > I assume the answer is no, but I thought I'd check anyway

> >

> > Sunshine

> >

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