Some people take charcoal to help mop up some of the mercury and help them before and after removal. Some take algin, which I believe does similar. Acts as a bit of a sponge.

They are not chelators, in the sense they do not go after the mercury by pulling anymore out of your tissues, but they will sponge up any available mercury they come into contact with (so I hear).

It depends what works for different people. Someone took charcoal and they did not react well to it, but some finds it helps.

This is why you get contradictory opinions, because there is not really any perfect way of doing anything.

If you really want to try chelating at this stage? I'd be careful because you still have amalgams, but I would do the Andy Cutler way of doing it (DMSA every 4 hours around the clock). Otherwise, I would wait till you have had all your amalgams out first.

Also candida can cause anxiety, and candida flourishes around heavy metals. So both of these things offset eachother. Redistribution of mercury caused by random chelating can push the mercury everywhere and worsen candida at the sametime. I would treat the candida as well with diet, whilst you try anything else on top of that.

If it is mercury causing this all with your moods, anxiety, chelation done in the right way should then help you after a while. I remember I used chelation the wrong way and moved mercury everywhere and got much worse anxiety, so I started taking DMSA the right way and it seemed to settle the redistribution down and my anxiety improved.

I also found candida diet improved anxiety too. So to me? Both are important to treat. I can only try and pass things onto you, but I am no a professional and most if not all here are not either. We can just pass on things that may have helped us. It's confusing I know because so many of those things are different.