I have used vitamin C almost (almost) daily for close to 30 years, longer actually because my mom always gave it to us as kids. So really I don't know. I've always used it. I've had amalgams since I was about 7 or 8 too so it's useless to try to answer that one.

I think with the heavy duty IV chelators you really have to stick with it a while. The rashes are actually normal a lot of the time as toxins break loose, they will go out through your skin. Maybe if you had continued on it for a couple months you wouldn't have had to suffer the rest. I was terribly whacked out my first 4-6 weeks too. I had a good support system though and the testimonies of all the other patients at the clinic who said hang on, hang on, it passes. apparently everyone goes through that. I mean, everyone. I think it's things like blood vessel and kidney damage from quick injections that are the problem with stuff like DMPS. My doctor only used an injection the first time for the initial dump, and then after that they mixed it with last little bit of EDTA IV fluid, so I actually wasn't doing injections, it was quite safe.

I avoided a chronic state by not self-treating something as massive as i had, Bex. self treating is ok when you feel pretty much ok I think. This had me completeky overwhelmed. I had no idea where normal was at from there so i couldn't possibly self-treat.

You know what is real helpful? If you have some powdered chlorella, take a teaspoon full now and then, dry, put that in your mouth and move it around your teeth and gums with your tongue, hold it in there for as long as you can... stand over the sink... spit it out a little bit when you get too much saliva... try to keep it in there a few minutes... spit it out little by little, do not swallow it, and then finally rinse. it'll mop up heavy metal from your fillings, gums a bit, whatever. Gets rid of that metallic taste for a good few days, all week in my case i only do it about that often.

Chlorella was originally used in mines to pull lead or something out of some other mineral, they would wash stuff down with it. You can do the same thing in your mouth.

I gargle with it too.