Bex,
I've not seen much advice from you to others on this forum regarding how to clean yourself up from pathogens, although you mention that you are yourself affected, and say that you acknowledge the pathogens. But you mostly only mention the Cutler protocol, the mercury and the diet, so there is a reason for me to suspect that you have not grasped the importance of the pathogens and how to treat them. Not any accusations from my part, just pointing out things which I disagree on. Your bias towards mercury is no small, nearly everything you talk about seems to be somehow caused directly by mercury in you. I have to say again I disagree on this, and have the right to do so.

Being focused on mercury leaves people here missing other important treatments, like ozone therapy, which appears to be highly effective against pathogens, other supplements, ammonia detoxification. etc. The anti-candida diet is also an important factor in mycoplasma treatment, not only related to candida.

A point I'm also trying to make is that you cant have both mercury and pathogens causing chronic diseases, immunopathologies (aka Herx), this is unacceptable. Metals and pathogens, they are something completely different. Because chronic diseases are seen with and without mercury, then it can't be mercury that is responsible for them, not at least directly. This is not to say that some people with MS are not harmed by mercury, but it is not mercury in itself that causes MS.

Accumulative poison or not, the chelation therapies may not even be so effective, Ray Saarela mentioned on the amalgam list, that there was a guy who chelated alot, but died in cancer later, and the autopsy revealed still lots of mercury. What is more important is that blood levels of mercury should be low, because this affects immunity. I wouldn't be too worried about what you have accumulated, if the blood levels are low. Once you get your body rolling again, it will clean up whatever it can by itself. Some excrete mercury in various ways, it comes out also during pathogen treatment. But of course everyone does as she/he wishes. I'm not seeing any harm in mercury chelation either, as long as you don't damage your liver with chelators. Also take it from a different viewpoint: the people on the Marshallprotocol site probably consider vitamin D more dangerous than the amounts of mercury coming from amalgam fillings, and they have still been successful in treating chronic diseases, probably more so than any other protocol, because they are understanding very well what they are doing.

Lipoic acid is also used in treatments against mycoplasma, but I'm sure it will work against other bugs as well. The low frequent dose scheme, according to my understanding is aimed at minimizing the immunopathology, while still being effective, as is explained for the drugs used in the Marshall protocol. I'm not abandoning things that appear to work well (ALA+DMSA), but just providing explanations which I have found to describe my symptoms better. The reason why some protocols work better than others is the minimization of immunopathology, while still being effective.