Hi all!

I just started chelation. I'm using Andrew Cutler Hall's protocol. I am hypothyroid and whilst the thyroid function has been stabilized with both T4 and T3, I still have cognitive concerns and also some major fatigue spouts. In short, I have Asperger's and ADD symptoms. The good news is that I didn't have any amalgams to remove. I only had one amalgam years ago, when I was younger, it was on a baby's tooth and it fell in my mouth when the tooth fell and I didn't swallow it. I believe most of my mercury exposure came from my mother's amalgams when she was pregnant. Or so the theory of autism/asperger's as misdiagnoses of mercury tox goes. I also receive many thimerosal vaccines throughout my life.

For my first round, I did only DMSA 12.5 mg each 4 hours (No ALA). I observed a lite burning feeling in my stomach a few minutes after ingesting the DMSA capsule, but nothing untolerable. On the third capsule I started having cold feet and a mild headache. At the end of the first day, I sensed something was going on in my thyroid it felt slightly enflammed, it went away the next day. On the second day, I felt again the lite burning feeling in my stomach, a mild headache and a the end of the afternoon I had diarrhea (2nd stool). On the third day, my first stool was ok, then the 2nd one was in diarrhea. Upon discontinuation of the DMSA for this first round, the diarrhea went away.

I'm writing this 3 days after discontinuation and I just can't believe how much better I feel. WOW. I feel so much less anxious, I am more relaxed. A part of the infamous "brain fog" is gone. Still got some difficulty concentrating, not much motivation has returned yet. But I feel much more physical/muscular strenght now. Oh yeah, my hair has restarted to curl now. My hair is no longer thin and brittle and shineless, it's thicker, denser and more pigmented. I can't say if all this is coming from the DMSA, maybe the magnesium/zinc supplement I took after the round helped. If it is the DMSA, then man this is quite some stuff! Is it possible? That after one round I can be feeling so much better?

This said, I await further rounds with interest, no doubt.

For round 2, I decided to up the DMSA dose to 25 mg and add 12.5 mg ALA. I tolerated so well the stuff that I am prepared to risk raising the dosage.

Signing off.