Report From Round 24

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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