Hi bg, my days with mercury and chelation were another stage in my life, as opposed to my days with the viral infection.

The symptoms from both kind of cross over. But I can say before I got this infection and when I had removed amalgams and chelated way back then, I did indeed get much better and many of my symptoms were resolved and resolving.

The brain symptoms included, even though I had not really done alpha lipoic acid, but only used DMSA. I probably should have used the ala, but because I was already feeling almost normal, I didn't feel the need to at that time. And yes the OCD type symptoms also improved, but I still think I was never "free" from mercury. I just reduced it enough to gain many health benefits and improvements from my symptoms.

This infection has caused many of the same symptoms and worse. Basically because it has pounded me mentally and physically. It has definitely affected my thought processes and caused me to be vulnerable to external and internal toxins to a huge extent. So I become much more affected by them, even at a very small amount, plus the virus itself (or other infections going on).

What I mean by strange brain symptoms? Becoming agitated or frightened by ordinary things. I have had stages of being terrified to speak, terrified to converse one on one, terrified of my own thoughts, having a thought and then having it play over and over in my mind and becoming afraid of it and having horrible adrenaline rushes at the sametime.

I would sometimes curl up and cry uncontrollably from this alone and nobody could say or do a thing to help. It all came from within and no amount of trying to relax, deep breathing or anything else did a thing to help it.

Further chelation helped only a little, but it stayed. The candida diet helped this more. But again, I am pretty much permanently on a knife edge because the low immunity is allowing me to be a sitting duck for anything and that includes easy yeast take over.

So, it is hard for me to differentiate between what i have now and what I went through with my detoxing mercury. Both were horrible, but this is worse due to inability to heal and detox properly.

Also finding out I still have/had some amalgam left under my top composites was a shock to me and who knows how much this may have impacted everything as well.

The organs I feel most affected by this infection.... I'd say the brain, gut/immune system. Because I remember the sensation when I got it of severe mental symptoms of slurring my words, going off balance and feeling movement throughout the brain and from there it all spread and I got it throughout the rest of my body.

Your question were not stupid at all. I don't think my answers were all that helpful though because all of this is very hard to pinpoint and often I don't really know what is doing what exactly.