Hi Linda, I can understand you being wary to take stuff to perhaps improve your insomnia when at the sametime you are hoping that it will improve naturally with chelation, which in a sense kind of confirms you in what you're doing. So it's hard to know what to do. I did "nothing" personally and just agonised through it sometimes, and other times I just shrugged and put up with it and stayed up and did other things.

I never slept well, even as a kid I was hyper and I was always the one to stay awake or the last to go to sleep at anybody sleep over. In fact, I would keep others awake (very annoying). it worsened in my teen years. I was 14 or 15 I think when it got so bad I would cry my eyes out. This coincided with braces being put on my teeth, which increases the uptake of mercury and also is toxic by itself (nickle etc).

But even with them off, I was still having issues. But like you, when I had all amalgams out, and started to 'detox", I was up all night many times, most nights.

I have heard this with people doing chelation and how when they go off it, they feel like they are relapsing further. Andy says this happens because mercury is still leaking out of storage naturally and going around your body. Chelation can start to grab onto this and can at some point, help a person to feel a little better, but only when it is starting to keep up with what is leaking out.

As soon as you stop chelating, the mercury that is still leaking out begins to make you feel repoisoned again because it's not being snatched up by the chelation and instead is kind of filling you back up.

I know of some people who were chelating and getting well and thought they were ready to stop chelation, felt almost completely well. Then a while later, were devastated when the symptoms returned. Basically, as Andy says, there comes a time when the chelation actually "Keeps you well", but you must chelate for enough time AFTER you feel well to make sure it gets enough of the mercury out to where you won't find yourself feeling ill again when you stop.

So in a sense, it seems to me you are on the right track. Chelation must be doing, at least with this anyway.

I wish I knew how/when this insomnia problem will improve, but I believe it will. I know that mercury blocks the chemicals that induce sleep as well as it blocks other things that we require for normal healthy function.

It will be interesting to hear what happens as time goes on and see if you notice little changes. Unfortunately they are often so subtle, that you can hardly detect them, so it's hard to keep going.