Guest guest Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 I think you might need to consider that the DMSA is pulling lead out of your bones and connective tissue. This may be why you are experiencing problems. I have had trouble with DMSA. I have old lead poisoning (1981-82) in addition to mercury and silver and who knows what else. When I use the DMSA, it pulls lead out. The body takes more time to process the lead. Also when combined with the mercury, etc. there is perhaps a synergistic effect in increased symptoms. You are getting a double whammy. I get terrible symptoms even on 4 mg. of DMSA. It intensifies with subsequent chelations using DMSA. When I chelate with ALA alone at low doses, I do quite fine. After a year and a half and 32 rounds of chelation with as much as 18.75 mg. of chelator, I am happily chelating now with 6 mg. of ALA alone without serious symptoms. I am going to raise it to 8 mg. ALA next round. I don't know when I will try DMSA again. I want to get my ALA up to 25 mg. or more before then. I figure that if I can take larger amounts of ALA without symptoms, that means I have dumped most of the mercury. Then I will think about working on the lead again with the DMSA. > > I'm confused about the " dumping phase " . It seems many people report a > difficult phase about 6 months after amalgam removal. For myself, I > had my fillings removed a decade ago and I don't remember any dramatic > effect, just a very slow but steady improvement over many years. I > didn't chelate then and started about 18 months ago. It seemed to be > going OK on 12.5 mg ALA and DMSA although I did find I had to leave at > least 10 days between rounds to recover from side effects - any less > than that and they seemed to accumulate - so progress was slow. > Early this year though I did a round as usual but side effects were > much worse and instead of 10 days it took 10 weeks to recover. > Consequently my chelating program has stalled rather. I finally did > another round at half the previous dose a couple of weeks back and seem > to have handled that OK, and plan to carry on at the lower dose for a > while. Is this experience related to the dumping phase? And have > others experienced suddenly not being able to cope with a chelation > regime that was working fine before? > > Guy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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