update and upping dose of ala/dmsa

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I have been continuously chelating my 14 y/o aspie son since Dec 08. Nothing but

awesome! We added ala this past June. This is our 3rd weekend up to 50 mg ala

37.5 dmsa. Since he is doing AWESOME is it too soon to up the dmsa to 50 mg, but

keep the ala as is?

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

I am so happy for you!!!!

I am only at 5mg. with my 10 y.o. but it seems that if i go higher she gets too

sick with it. I see improvement too!! She use to have really bad OCD and was

super violent. They are both gone. I am left with lots of confusion and she

still reacts to red pasta sauce, corn, chocolate. Nothing like before. I am

praying some of these food intolerances go away.

On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:57 PM, lisa lally wrote:

> Hi all,

> I have been continuously chelating my 14 y/o aspie son since Dec 08. Nothing

but awesome! We added ala this past June. This is our 3rd weekend up to 50 mg

ala 37.5 dmsa. Since he is doing AWESOME is it too soon to up the dmsa to 50 mg,

but keep the ala as is?

> Thanks!

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[Guest guest]

Hi ,

This is great news about your son. I chelate myself and find that I can't

tolerate 50 mgs of DMSA. Nothing really outwardly noticeable happens to me when

I take that amount, but emotionally I start feeling quite awful and I feel like

if I continued, I would become fairly unstable. The same thing happened to my

son when he was about 14 (he's NT, with metal issues). At the time he weighed

about 140 pounds, so 50 mgs in theory wasn't too much, but in practice was.

When I have taken even more than 50 mgs of DMSA by accident, I do get headaches

that are pretty brutal.

I can take 50 mgs of ALA and it feels pretty good actually. I know this is

different for all people, but DMSA seems to be much harder on me and my kids

than ALA.

Anita

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> Hi all,

> I have been continuously chelating my 14 y/o aspie son since Dec 08. Nothing

but awesome! We added ala this past June. This is our 3rd weekend up to 50 mg

ala 37.5 dmsa. Since he is doing AWESOME is it too soon to up the dmsa to 50 mg,

but keep the ala as is?

> Thanks!

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[Guest guest]

Hi Anita,

I just asked him how he feels when he takes the pills.. " does your head hurt? "

" no, I feel fine. " I am thankful he is where he is at. I have an 8th grader who

had an absolutely miserable transition to 7th grade (BULLIES) to a kid who staff

will miss terribly because he is a helper and has a super sense of humor. I

credit this huge gain this year to the steady, low dose chelating. We had an IEP

meeting and his case manager had to take last years goals away (being physical)

because all that stuff is gone. His ONLY goals are: stop rushing through his

work and muttering under his breath loud enough so CERTAIN students hear him. He

denies he even does this. Oddly enough, the bane of his existence is an

Aspergers girl. Interesting. That's his dx.

Thanks!

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> > I have been continuously chelating my 14 y/o aspie son since Dec 08. Nothing

but awesome! We added ala this past June. This is our 3rd weekend up to 50 mg

ala 37.5 dmsa. Since he is doing AWESOME is it too soon to up the dmsa to 50 mg,

but keep the ala as is?

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