HI 40 yr poisoned. I am really sorry to hear of this. This is terrible! I am surprised I have not heard this with the others on here using his protocol and I must ask why?

Do you mind if I ask you please, at what stage following amalgam removal did you start using ALA? Andy specifically and has repeated many times, you should NOT use ALA until 3 months or more has passed after amalgam removal (or any other recent mercury exposure).

He has good reasons for pointing this out. The body has to have a chance to eliminate/reduce the more accessible mercury still available. DMSA can grab onto that, so it is very helpful to use early on. Some people continue with DMSA for much longer than specified because they find it is still detoxing them. DMSA may also have "some" ability to clear organs, but not to the extent of ALA.

There are some people who have used his protocol, but decided to make changes to it and hurt themselves and then gotten onto forums and complained that his protocol is bad. This has upset Andy tremendously after finding out they did not stick to the specific guidelines. If a person has not followed his guidelines and timing, then they cannot blame him or his protocol. If they have followed the guidelines and still been injured? They ought to tell him via phone, email etc. And of course warn others if they can.

He does the timing of all this for a reason. Those who do it to the letter (apart from altering dose to suit themselves), I have YET to hear of such an adverse response.

So I'd be interested to find out exactly when you start using ALA. If you used it before the three months? Then what Andy warned about, probably took place inside of you. The extra-cellular mercury has got to be reduced first (body mercury), before a brain chelating agent can be taken onboard.

I personally feel that 3 months is not enough, because many people are still getting detox symptoms with DMSA alone.

In fact, his protocol (even with just DMSA) was actually what was curing me of mercury and my health improved tremendously. You will find on this very forum that people have and are responding pretty well to his than they have to other ones they've tried.

I coudl not tolerate anything else BUT his. I tried many other protocols, even ones by specialist doctors and couldn't handle them at all. I kept going back to his and it worked.

But evenso, just because it worked for me, does not mean it'll work for everybody. However, his trackrecord is very impressive and you'll see quite a few who are very happy with his protocol so far. No reactions like yours yet.

Also, sosick has not removed her amalgams as yet and is chelating regardless. This may work for her, but it does not work for everybody and some have been very sick by doing so. Also changes take place after amalgam removal and people can feel much worse for quite sometime as the body offloads the storage.

I actually felt better with amalgams in some ways than without them. So it is easy to assume a person is healthier because they have less "symptoms" than those who are suffering from post amalgam removal detox syndrome, who suffer long term. It takes a LOT of time to eliminate years of storage and the dumping stage is traumatic for many.

I could boast of being "better" with amalgams and following a good diet to how I became after amalgam removal. All because I had less detox to tolerate. So I could "maintain" a level of apparent health, even though my tissues were quite puffy from the ongoing onslaught of storing the daily intake of mercury.

Storage mode is easier to put up for some people than dumping mode (from amalgam removal) if they make changes to their lifestyle to keep a certain level of health going. But it is often not the answer. One has to go through usually a lot of detox pain once amalgams are out and Andy's protocol can shorten that and make it alot easier as it did for me.

With amalgams, I coudl tolerate all kinds of things, even strong garlic supplements and do well on them. After amalgam removal? I got incredibly sick from almost everything because my body was exposed to much more of the mercury during dumping. I also became more sensitive to mercury too after removal. This apparently can occur as the body's attempt to alert you against ever exposing yourself to this stuff again.

So it responds in an exaggerated manner to mercury. Hal Huggins mentions this in his detox booklet too. Amalgam removal is far from the end to this problem, it's just the beginning of an often difficult/erratic journey towards detoxing the body of this poison properly.