DMSA, not EDTA Re: Great experience with chelation, now tha

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OOPS! I just looked at the medicaiton I was taking for chelating

mercury, and it's DMSA, not EDTA. Sorry about that!

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> Hi Folks,

>

> I've been posting periodically that I've been making great progress in

> my treatment using the Buhner protocol for the past year and a half

> (my whole story is in 'success stories' at Lymenet.org, as I was

> symptom-free entirely for several months).

>

> This winter I had a setback when I got pregnant (I no longer am). It

> made me exhausted which I thought at first was a Lyme relapse, and

> maybe it was, or maybe it was not Lyme.

>

> I started taking doxy before I realized I was pregnant and before I

> realized that my tiredness symptoms might have just been hormonal (my

> completely healthy roommate is now newly pregnant and she seems to be

> going through the same thing, so I now think it could have been either).

>

> Anyway, the doxy didn't seem to make any difference- I didn't see

> anything like a herx or any improvement either, which is unusual for

> me on antibiotics. I stopped the doxy after a month and a half and was

> still pretty tired for a few weeks afterwards (though nothing like

> when I was actively sick in the past).

>

>

> I finally decided to try chelation again- I test high in mercury and

> my LLMD thinks that's at the root of all my Lyme problems. in the past

> chelation has been a nightmare for me, and has caused all my Lyme to

> come back full-force.

>

> This time it worked really well, and once I recovered from remaining

> side effects a few days after chelation, I became truly symptom-free

> again, which is an amazing feeling.

>

> Chelation:

> I took EDTA for three days, along with TONS , and I really mean LOTS,

> of binders to go with it- I was drinking, several times a day, these

> ugly smoothies made of chlorella, bentonite (tip: Sonne's Detoxificant

> brand is better tasting than Great Plains Bentonite), acidophilus

> liquid, and psyllium (I used juice to make the smoothies palatable). I

> also took a product called Metachel that my doctor strongly

> recommended, and took a form of sodium alginate made by Solaray (their

> cheap " Detox " formula), and was also taking liver support herbs like

> milk thistle and dandelion (not under doctor supervision, so I'm not

> 100% sure if dandelion was appropriate), drinking a lot of nettle and

> red clover tea for it's food-grade mineral content (think spinach-

> drinking nettle tea is more or less the same thing, only less tasty

> than spinach).

>

> I had a bad experience in the past with chelation bringing back my

> Lyme symptoms, and I think the difference this time is just that I'm a

> lot healthier than I was a year ago. However, I have also added

> Metachel, which I didn't use the other time, and had spent a few weeks

> using injectible B-12 (but not during chelation itself because of a

> rumor I read somewhere about a side effect it can have, that I was

> concerned about).

>

> I didn't take any other supplements during that time because chelation

> can be a serious strain on your body according to my LLMD. I also

> didn't take any vitamins or minerals other than through my food (or

> through nettle tea) because you don't want the chelating agent to bind

> to your supplement minerals rather than to your mercury.

>

> This time around I was sloppy and didn't even eat properly- my

> appetite was heavily affected and I just ate what tasted good. My LLMD

> had told me to eat low-fat and high fiber during the process so as to

> lower the stress on the liver and help with elimination, and I should

> have done that but it was just too difficult for me to avoid fats this

> time around and still find something I was willing to eat. He had also

> recommended drinking a lot of fruit and vegetable juice, but I didn't

> have a juicer available.

>

> He recommended sweating in a sauna, as well. I didn't have a sauna

> available, so I just tried to make sure I was warm all the time, with

> the theory being that a) sweating is good for elimination of mercury,

> supposedly and higher body temperature does slightly speed up

> elimination processes and immune activity, not that immunity had much

> to do with chelation. I slept in two pairs of pajamas, took hot

> showers twice a day, for instance. I think I went running once or

> twice and tried to warm up that way.

>

> I drank gallons of water, it felt like, and the whole process

> definitely had me going to the bathroom way more than I'm used to. The

> psyllium seemed like a good thing for all this. I'm glad I got to just

> sit around the house for the most part for a few days. I was shocked

> at how much one can poop without eating very much (sorry, I know this

> is all way, way " too much information " , but fiber and elimination is

> supposedly a key component of how chelation works- eliminating the

> chelating compound/mercury combo in the stool).

>

> After the chelation treatment was over I started taking large amounts

> of multivitamins to try to regain whatever minerals the chelator

> leached out of my body, and I went back on the Buhner herbs. It took a

> few days to get over residual side effects.

>

> Right now I'm visiting the SF area again (I've been living on the East

> Coast for a few months) and working out in martial arts very, very

> intensively every single day, and leading a very busy social and work

> life while 'couchsurfing' friends' houses. There's no way I could do

> all of this while at all sick. I feel enormously lucky that the

> treatment worked so well that time.

>

> I'm going to do it again in a few weeks when I get home, my LLMD made

> it sound like it would be a few treatments spaced every few weeks apart.

>