Hi LindaLou:

You struggle sounds a lot like mine. I am on Armour Thyroid low dose, and I think the extra T-3 helps. But sometimes I want off this too. I am hoping if all the mercury is gone, I won't need it.

My amalgams were replaced 14 months ago. I have been on Cutler's method of chelation, every 3 hours - for quite a while I have been on 50 mg ALA and 25 mg DMSA. In total, I have done 25 three day rounds of ALA and DMSA, and 39 total rounds, the first being 25 mg DMSA only. I tried recently to up to 100 mg ALA, and felt great at end of round, but day later crashed - though it could have been the heat that did it. So back to 50 mg.

You know, looking back, I had some days where I did not want to get out of bed - dreaded the thought of starting the day. These have passed! OK, it's still not all fun and joy, but it is way better than it was. I think this will happen for you too.

Cutler says each time you chelate, you remove like a half or one percent of the load from your brain. So, you may want to hang in there and keep going, but I know for me, I too sometimes want to quit. But then supposedly, you never get the mercury out of your brain.

To cope, I take breaks for a few weeks here and there. It's a long, slow game as Russ says. But I believe the progam works. There are symptoms that have really gone away - some things that prove to me it was absolutely mercury causing this. The absolute proof for me was frequent urination, getting up 4 to 6 times a night, absolutely went away within a day of getting the final amalgams out!! Wow! No way could it have been anything else. That alone was worth the price of admission. I don't have to run to the bathroom all day long anymore - and that was going on for over 20 years. Huggins and Cutler write about this, and I believe they are correct. When I hear of a doctor or dentist who laughs and dismisses mercury poisoning as unreal, I kind of want to ask them to explain how that happened!

You say you are doing better now than last year - I take that as a sign it is working for you. I think I may try ALA only soon, and see how that works, maybe use Algin with it.

Good Luck; I wouldn't doubt if you feel great again someday,

TW