great news pgm! The fact you're doing this with just ALA alone and diet and getting such improvements is really encouraging. I know Andy says you can use it alone and cure mercury poisoning (but he feels DMSA can help with it).

But a drug is still a drug and though I'm impressed with DMSA, ideally it would be great not to require it at all and simply use ALA (even just for the fact it's cheaper).

I hope that you make a full recovery from all these symptoms. Oh and just thought I would add this. I seem to call Andy Cutler talking about Brain V body symptoms of mercury. And I think he said that persistant/stubborn yeast can be signs of mercury in the brain.....rather than the body... (if I recall correctly). Which is not really what I would have expected, but then again the brain is the control centre, so I guess it makes sense.

Good move to chelate with ALA, it'll chelate any mercury that happens to be there and do a lot of good at the sametime. I hope it continues and you make a full recovery!