Guest guest Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 Wow, that's fascinating. I can definitely relate with the paranoia about not chelating. Still got metals in my mouth that have kept me from being able to start DMSA yet. Glad to hear your chosen ALA dosage is acceptable for you, but I'm just curious--did you try other brands of ALA at a lower dosage than 100mg, and then not do well with it? Just wondering why you've chosen the Vitamin Research Products brand for yourself, even though it was a high dosage. I love reading other people's positive stories of progress on this chelation program! It's encouraging! > > Hi all, > > Just wanted to check in with my progress so far. At this point, I am > 19 months post amalgam removal. I started chelating 11 months post > amalgam removal. I found the dump phase symptoms unbearable and went > looking on the internet for help and found this group. My main > problems were depression/dark moods/paranoia and low energy and > yeast. I chelated with 25mg of DMSA every four hours three days on > four days off for a few months and always felt better on round. I > was feeling like I could manage my life, but the yeast got really > bad, so I cut back to three days on, eleven days off and that helped > a bit. > > But a few months ago, I felt like the yeast was winning against all > of the remedies I tried. I get tinea versicolor on my torso and > sometimes arms and neck if it gets out of control. It looks like > pale freckles, and goes away when I use OTC fungal cream. Until it > comes back again. That's not the bad part. I also get hysterical > emotional symptoms, where all I want to do is wail and cry for > hours. This feels very different to the mercury dark moods, and is > always accompanied by a very mild vaginal yeast infection. > > I hate doctors, but I caved a couple of months ago and got a > prescription for Diflucan. It was unpleasant to take. Five days of > die-off and liver weakness. The yeast went away for a couple of > weeks. > > At this point, at Round 22, I started to add ALA. I had experimented > a little bit with it around Round 16, taking maybe 6mg for a day > during my regular round of DMSA, just to see that i could tolerate it > at all. But this time, I was determined to climb on top of a regular > dose that I could go on with. > > *The following is not recommended* *But I went ahead and did it > anyway* Over the next three rounds, I increased my dose from 6mg of > ALA to 100mg of ALA. All this along with 25mg of DMSA, every three > hours round the clock, three days on, 11 days off. I start the ALA > on the second dose of the round and stop after 2.5 days and let the > DMSA clean up. > > The reason I did this was that I cannot stand splitting capsules. I > have a brand (Vitamin Research Products) of ALA that works for me, > and the smallest capsules they sell are 100mg. If that's the case, > then 100mg it is. > > And I'm doing fine. I feel a bit spaced out on round since adding > the ALA, but nothing I can't manage, and it's getting less noticable > with each round. And I feel generally better after each round, which > is nice. > > The yeast did return after starting ALA. I expected that, but it was > still a bummer. Until I realised that I had the skin fungus and the > vaginal symptoms, but no accompanying hysteria! I ran that by my > doctor and he said that Diflucan kills yeast in every part of the > body, not just gut, vagina and skin. He said that it must have > invaded a system that was causing emotional symptoms and now it had > cleared out. This is very good news. > > I also got blood work done and everything was normal except for low > Iron, Magnesium, Vitamin D and Vitamin B12. I got a B12 shot, which > I could feel helping me immediately, and am supplementing the > others. I can't believe I'm low on Magnesium, I've been > supplementing it for years. > > The best part of all of this is that the dump phase is winding down. > It was a long year. At times, I felt that my whole life was spent > hopping from the frying pan to the fire: Mercury darkness and > paranoia if I didn't chelate, or yeast-induced hysteria if I did. I > feel like I've been bonkers for so long, I've forgotten how to take > my feelings seriously. If I feel bad, I must be sick, it can't be > connected to something in my real life I'm having feeling about. > It's like I'm slowly emerging from a nightmare. > > Anyway, that's where I'm at. My next projects are to try some > homeopathic remedies that the doctor recommended to keep the yeast > down and to get on a bicycle and build up my tolerance for exercise. > I'll try five minutes today and see what my adrenals have to say > about it! > > Hope everyone is doing well, > Aine > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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