HI Rachie, yeah no wonder you had such a tremendous reaction. 200 mg is a HUGE amount and also, most people need to take ALA every 3 hours, not 4. 4 is "marginal", but can still risk redistribution. DMSA is fine with every 4 hours, but ALA apparently is better taken a bit more often.

So that might also help you! Perhaps less of a dose and a little more often. Though you can extend it to every 4 hours at night if it helps you get a bit more sleep, but shorten it to every 3 during the day. Main thing is to keep ti frequent and not get sloppy.

I have gotten sloppy before and onetime I took a very late dose of DMSA and didn't stick to the every 4 hours and i copped it well and truly. Had terrible gut issues from doing that, and though I have a bad weakness there, it seemed that I had redistributed the metals into the gut.

I am a pretty good test, becuase I am so injured in other ways, that many forms of chelation that others get away with or think are 'ok", can harm me greatly, yet Cutler's is "ok", unless of course I miss a dose and instead of stopping the round, i decide to take a late dose, then I get into trouble.

But yeah, I mean you may want to try DMSA on its own for a while and see how you go. Though I think you were just taking far too high of a dose of ala and probably not as frequent enough.

Still the symptoms you got sound really interesting. It must have been moving something in the brain for sure. And what else could that be? The only thing ala chelates apparently is mercury and arsenic....if there is another metal, let me know. But I dont think it chelates lead.