I am not any kind of professional and do not have any right to gamble with your health, particulary when you are experiencing severe mental symptoms from this toxicity, which is outright dangerous and causes many to end their lives.

I hope you do not get hospitalised. But if you feel you have to, then you might be wise to, especially if you have some in that area who do believe in mercury poisoning and can at least realise it's the mercury and not you. I am in that position right now, close to ending my life and do not know which way to turn. Mysymptos are fighteing and not making sense and I am making a lot of effort. So I am frankly scared.

Not much consolation to you I'm sure at this stage.

But I would definitely get off that stuff (ALA) you may even feel worse for a while as the mercury has to move about again and settle, but I would not stay on that dose of lipoic acid. I would not get on it at all at the moment until you have figured out whether it's the culprit or not.

You might find DMSA ok to stay on. But it's up to you if you want to go off both. But for sure, I would be off that ALA in a heartbeat. And if you ever try that stuff again, I would not go over 12 mg of it. You will see in Andy's book where he mentions a trial run of DMSA and ALA together as a test for mercury, however he gives a warning about this too as it could seriously aggravate mental / emotional symptoms and people ought to be warned before doing it. He said that the mental / emotional symptoms are often diagnostic enough to prove mercury.

Now that was at 100 mg of ALA and I think the test was for one day. You are taking 50 mg of ALA and obviously doing proper rounds of it and I can imagine it maybe tipping you over that fine line.

It's hard to say, the toxicity is there anyway, so you won't know what is doing what. But I'd go off it if I was you.

Not sure if you're following a candida diet, but you would know how serious candida is too. In fact, it is so serious, that some people have ended their lives from this alone. It is typical to have this alongside mercury and it makes mercury more toxic also.

So just make sure that you are not experiencing more than necessary. mercury is evil it is ferocious, but combine it with yeast/bacteria, and you got even more problems. Particuarly when you're chelating also, as DMSA and ALA excerbate yeast too. But diet can be essential.

I'm sure you've heard all this before. But I don't know what to say, I hope that you will get a little relief very soon, just to tide you over. It may well be the ALA aggravating what's already happening, but enough to where it's pushing you further than ever.

Keep me posted. I know it's near impossible to cope or remain sane with this.