I have been seeing some significant improvement during the last few weeks. I have been detoxing for a year and a half now using various methods and I think that it's finally starting to make a difference.

Glad to hear it!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Can you tell what methods you used and how you have improved?

Good to hear Aaron.

It's been a long road for you but your success in this will be a great encouragement for others who have been meeting every obstacle along the road to health.

Keep us posted.

Hi Aaron, that is great news. I hope that you continue to improve and come out of this completely. You may get the really bad moments continue, but as you are seeing the light a bit more, it looks like things are happening for sure now and hopefully it's onward and upward <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Keep us in touch with this and this is another sign that DMSA works! At least it does for you and for many others also. If that is the one you are still using.

That is fantastic news <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Im glad to hear that. I hope you continue to improve.

Yes, the bad moments are not past. I'm hurting quite a bit today. Algin helps some and I eat the stuff like candy.

My psychiatrist said that when someone recovers from depression it usually happens slowly with a little bit of light here and there.

The good days are encouraging but the bad ones are devastating.

Well if your depression is caused from mercury, you will not recover from it unless you chelate. So psychiatrists do not always know what kind of depression a person has and will treat anybody depression is just that "depression". If it's toxic induced depression, they can psychoanalyse a person till the cows come home, it'll do no good. Because it's not the person, it's the toxic messed up reactions inside the brain that cause the darkness and despair.

So if you are getting any remote improvement from chelation, then you are probably onto the right track. problem is, the ongoing bad moment do not just pass as you have seen. It is like coming up the surface a little and then being pulled down under. It is nasty, but necessary to keep on.

I know someone who recovered from a horrifying depression 10 days after their amalgams were removed, plus a bit of homeopathic detox. I also know someone who had to wait for 2 years of hardcore mercury detox treatment from an expert in the field before seeing any improvement. I had my amalgams removed 4 years ago and haven't had any improvement. But i've had plenty of testing done which concludes that i'm loaded with Hg. So that's what i cling on to. I think if someone's depression is starting to lift, it's probably a good idea to add some Omega 3 and probiotics maybe. As for psychiatrists, i recommend the book "A Dose of Sanity" by Sydney Walker, a psychiatrist and neurologist himself, who enlightens us to the uselessness of a psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric drugs and therapy.

The psychiatrist that I go to knows that I don't suffer from typical depression and I'm not even taking anything that he's prescribing right now. Actually, I probably won't see him much longer because he is leaving the insurance network that I'm in. He did help me win an appeal and get the money to go to the Amen Clinic DC (see www.amenclinics.com) last year for SPECT scans of my brain. Amen Clinics is one of the few establishments in psychiatry that considers toxicity issues in mental illness.

I am seeing a psychotherapist but it's mostly a bandaid measure to help me vent some of my frustrations and get some encouragement during these very dark days.

For what it's worth there are still some outstanding people in the mental health field but they are few and far between. I have gone to good ones and bad ones.

This morning I suffered from severe (emotional) seizures and suicidal thoughts. I'm starting chelation again in hopes that will give me some relief.

The previous post was made by me but I forgot to log in.

Yep, I can understand that. Sometimes a bandaid solution is a lifesaving solution. Not much can beat a mercury depression, as it is possibly the most hellish and despairing kind of mental torture a human being can endure.

I consider those who endure this type of toxicity pretty heroic. Not that they have much choice, either they endure it, or opt out. And who can judge those who opted out? poor souls.

So Aaron, whatever the heck gets you through a day? grab it if you can. But know that you're not alone and I know this depression well. Well enough that I even prepared my own suicide and had everything all ready for it. That's frightening, but it is like living on a knife edge. I know I can say this because you and others will know this only too well.

Everytime you chelate, go through hell and then go through a better patch, more mercury comes to the surface. It is like it continues to download until enough has been removed for more lengthy improvements and far easier "bad times". Until that is reached, you may find an ongoing roller coaster ride. NObody can predict how it will be for them.

Take care.

Yeah Bex, heroic is an understatement. There are so many reasons to opt out.

Yep, there are too many reasons. Unfortuantely in a mercury toxic body, you can have everything going great outside of you, beautiful day, loving family, and you can be in a pit of despair internally. It's like being in your own private hell.

After being through it and still going through it, I have now got the greatest admiration and sympathy for those going through mental torment. I coudl never have imagined it was even possible unless I had gone through it myself.

Great you are getting improvement, Aaron! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I had to go back to hell for awhile but I'm once again feeling like I am making some headway. I am taking Hydergine (ergoloid mesylates) 4mg three times a day now and I think that it's helping. That is a drug that Andy Cutler recommends.

I still don't feel very good but for some reason I'm thinking in a more positive manner.

I'm going to take the entire month off from chelation because I feel like my body really needs the rest.