Hi Linda, I'm sorry to hear this. You may require longer with the DMSA. Some people do. Take heart, some have recovered on DMSA alone, which may indicate most of their mercury is in the body areas, rather than brain.

Depression isn't always a sign of brain mercury, so you may want to keep chelating with DMSA and ALA together.

Andy says that DMSA does not chelate out any minerals whatsoever. This is a common misconception. It is the action of the chelating itself that can use up minerals and antioxidants more rapidly because of the stress. So this is why a person would do well to supplement the entire time, during and between chelating.

I know DMSA is expensive, but if it helps? If you can find a way of getting it, I probably would. It may just help keep things a little more stable, plus continue to chelate other areas at the sametime. Though ALA does it "all", some find they require DMSA to keep an even stronger grip on the mercury once ALA has pulled more mercury out of the organs/brain.

It is different for people, so you never know how anybody willl respond. I hear some do badly on DMSA and great on ALA and some vice versa. You maybe able to do ALA alone at some point, but maybe now your body feels better using DMSA at the sametime.....

Make sure you're getting enough antioxidants/minerals during this, that can get people down as well. Also getting enough fish oil/flaxseed oil for essential fatty acids, which aid in healing up the brain apparently.

Unfortunately ALA will not suppress symptoms (usually), it will cause you a feeling of regression, as though you're going back to how you were. Brain fog is another one. Though you get the odd person who claims a sense of euphoria, most feel as though they are going back to how they were and feel like giving up.

So it is very very hard to keep going when this occurs. 50 mg is actually a big step! And half the problem is this, you may not notice anything at first whilst your taking it, but symptoms usually start to happen later on and grow. So be careful. It can take a few days sometimes before the symptoms start and you start feeling really down to it. It can be a subtle onset.