Well, you maybe right. Certainly these brain symptoms and other problems only started after the infections. So if mercury "is" involved here, obviously it is only because I'm much more vulnerable to it from having a lower immunity and complications from the other issues (infection).

The thing is, you can have mercury and be in a stronger position to deal with it and not notice its effects as much. Then your immunity can be hammered by something unrelated and suddenly the effects from the mercury can show up.

It's not that I think mercury can "grow", but that there could have been remaining mercury (brain included) that I was not aware of because I did not have these other problems back then. I would be far more vulnerable now to remaining mercury than I was then.

But again, yes pathogens too could be doing this, the whole deal. Problem is, it is unlikely that I will just get to the bottom of all this and get rid of these underlying problems like complicated infections and ones that I have no clear diagnosis for. This virus for instance has not improved one bit since I got it years ago, it is something i have to live my life around. Not the same as mercury, as least I was able to chelate that out!

But again, it won't hurt to do a trial of ALA at some point and if I notice anything, it may well be brain mercury. ALA is the one to get it out of there and I have never done any regular ALA chelating, so it's possible there is some still there. ALA does not appear to help candida by the way, I'm on other forums where people chelate with it regularly and find it makes matters worse and they discuss ways of trying to treat yeast more effectively during ALA chelation. Even though it raises glutathione, there is something else it has that is problematic for yeast issues.

I know I have serious yeast problems, because one alcoholic coffee with milk causes such a massive relapse. It's like living on a knife edge in a way.