Thanks to you both. Bex, when you tell me about what you've been through, I'm always filled with admiration that you are still here and still chipping away along with the rest of us. Who needs antidepressant aggro on top of the rest eh?

If the gastro problems remain or get worse, I may do what you suggest and cut out the DMSA or ALA. At the moment the thought frightens me. Maybe I was too quick to say they weren't helping. True I can't feel very much, emotionally, but my sleep seems to slowly be improving. In the US I was waking at 4 am. I seem to have been stuck at 5 am here since we got back. The past few nights the 5 am waking has been less of a jolt, more of something I can recover from and go back to sleep; and last night miraculously I didn't wake at 5 am at all. My sleep seems to be a very good measure of how chelation is going; in time I hope my emotions will be affected too, and start to recover. My husband is waiting patiently while I feel no love for him and my sex drive is at absolute zero. I'm waiting for the next time he decides he's losing patience and complains to me. All I can ever say is that I'm doing my best.

My diet has been excellent since I got back from the US. No sugar, hardly any fruit, just lots of nourishing meat, fats and veg. Would that be enough to stop yeast from being a problem? I haven't noticed any other possible yeast-related symptoms apart from the stomach upset.