the 'protocol' also has you taking mineral supplements simultaneously with your chelating. That's also directly opposite of my doctor's advice, which is to take supplements on days that you do not chelate so that the chelators aren't wasted on good calcium/whatever in your bloodstream that is suppose to be replacing mercury laden areas.

So really, I don't know about your protocol. I know what my doctor does works really well, and I will follow his advice forever. I was tracked weekly with bloodtests throughout it, there's no doubt, it works really well. But I didn't feel completely over the mercury poisoning until I started eating the cilantro pesto as a meal... within 4-6 weeks I was pretty much back to my normal self. The EDTA was good for me, the DMPS (with ALA afterward especially) was great, but really, a steady diet of cilantro pesto is what gave me my health back more or less completely. I bought 5 bottles of DMSA 25 mgs, 120 caps each. I used up 3 of those quite quickly while I was still doing IV chelataion and then a bit after, they were gone in about June, early July. The other two, plain DMSA no added ingredients.. I got those over the summer when I was in midst of my cilantro routine because I had it in the garden in hoards... and I still have one 25 mg cap left in one bottle and the other bottle has never been opened.

I never needed it much after eating cilantro. Only when I feel the big mercury drip thing or when my blood sounds heavy when I'm laying in bed in night.. you can hear the mercury in you blood i can anyway... now, normal to me is when I cannot hear my blood rushing through my body. i simply have come to associate that with mercury though I could be wrong, but the cilantro and/or dmsa clears it up so it's something along those lines I think. Could be lead too i really don't know.