The first time I ever experienced it was after the doctor started adding DMPS to my IV drip during my heavy duty chelation. It started probably the next day, in my thigh. I had to keep looking down because it felt exactly like cold water dripping down my leg. I actually even took a hike to the bathroom and checked, because it was so strong. and kept happening, that I had to double check I wasn't peeing in my pants. you know, bad mercury poisoning and gosh what I went through, if I had been peeing my pants it would have just been another item to add to the list of atrocities. But I was not peeing, underwear was dry, leg was dry... but there was that cold drippy sensation. It probably went on all day, off and on foir a couple days... after every single DMPS IV. That was my turning point in the chelation. I really took a turn for the better at that point, and I am real sure it's because of the DMPS, which caused those big releases of mercury, drippy mercury, from my muscle and bones. My head began feeling clear for the first time in months. i had enormous brain fog when i was sick. oh, it was unbearable. dreadful.

So then later on, when I wanted to stop the IV's, my garden was coming in and I had heard that cilantro was one of the best chelators available, better than DMSA (which has never given me a drip sensation), perhaps even better than DMPS.

So i started making my cilantro pesto dish which I describe above, and sure enough, the cold drippy runny mercury sensation again. I get it just about every time, not always, but generally within several hours of eating that pesto (lots of cilantro, lots of garlic). I rarely take DMSA anymore. Last week, i was really dripping heavy duty, in several places, legs, spine, head... my feet last week were really going. that's good, I have never felt the sensation in my feet before. I did take DMSA last week because of that. 50 mgs I think, one dose, maybe two a few hours apart.

It feels exactly, exactly, like cold, not ice cold but cool water, dripping on your skin, sometimes if it's coming out of your spine it's just a sensation inside your back running downward along your spine.

I highly recommend you keep DMSA on hand if you want to do this routine. It is an excellent chelation routine but if your get that drip sensation, a little bit i think your body can cope with it, but if it's major, it's probably a good idea to take some DMSA because the stuff that drips, it's going to get picked up by your blood, and if you take the DMSA right when you feel it or just a tad afterward, you can really catch a good load, already in your blood stream, and eliminate it. Drink water so you pee a lot.

i feel real good for the most part. Not 100% back to normal, i'd give myself about a 92 or so. Mostly I just don't have the energy I had before, I have to rebuild my strength... i have a lot of energy but am so busy... It's not a general fatigue by any means, but I think the past year of going through all that has left me pretty much in a state of 'whew' that was rough and I have had so much catching up to do.. and so I do more resting than I used to. I worked pretty hard all summer, garden, my own work. A couple months of kind of lazy is overdue. i am in my second month of kind of lazy now... I will probably go at one more... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Otherwise i am doing pretty much everything I normally would prior to getting ill.