Hi Bex, here's the idea: once you remove your amalgams you get your immunity back. Then your body starts fighting the pathogens like candida. If you don't remove your amalgams, your body will be in a helpless state doing nothing. This is what happened to me anyways. It would be incredible if my symptoms were from mercury, I just had one filling and its been gone for soon a year now.

Yet I still keep salivating, and having all the post-removal symptoms, but of course it was more intense in the beginning. As everyone knows vitamin C doesn't chelate any mercury, but my salivation increased always dramatically when I took C vit, and it still does. So, there is no way I can attribute this to mercury. Since the salivation comes from C vit alone, excess salivation may have nothing to do with mercury, it's just die-off from candida. It may even taste metallic, but the main component I noticed is its sour taste, probably some acid coming from immune system activity.

I can also tell that ALA helped me tremendously.. but it could be equally well because of its ability to kill candida, like every other anti-oxidant. Many of the chelators helps with candida too, even if you think that mercury is the target. DMSA should, however, cause a candida flareup (or just a temporary relief), because it suppresses immune system activity.

What takes time is to get rid of your pathogens after your removal of amalgams. It's definitely not easy, especially if you have other trouble that still weakens the immune system (amalgams are not the only ones causing trouble with immune system).

Essentially I don't suggest any changes in the treatments here, but just want to make it clear that mercury may be confused for pathogens in many cases (mercury was still the root cause for them).