James 44, I was a real mixed bag of goings on! I had my last amalgam removal in 1997 (I was 24). I did not understand mercury detox properly and didn't know what on earth was going to happen to me. See, when you have amalgams, the body is in storage mode, so you never really feel the full impact until all amalgams are gone and the body starts to go into detox mode. Then it's all on.

Anyway, I got ill immediately following last removal, very badly. Probably due to swallowing the removed grains of amalgam. I got badly poisoned.

I was given a few DMSA capsules (did it the wrong way, high dose and intermittant - 2-3 days per week). However, it didn't seem to affect me at that stage and this seemed to stablise some of my symptoms (for a time).

I went into what seemed like a sort of remission (to a point). Then by age 26 the sh*t hit the fan. I had done NO other form of chelation and had left everything as it was. My body on the other hand decided to start dumping stored mercury out of the blue and boy did I get sick. I think the year was 1999 when the sufferings began and I did not understand what was happening to me. I blamed my replacement materials, but I was wrong. Mercury was coming out and repoisoning me.

I went and had a DMPS challenge test (wrong move, and uninformed doctor). The DMPS itself caused a massive eruption of stored mercury to hit my system in one shot. From there, I really copped it. I started to get mercury rashes covering my body from head to toe. Anytime I heated up, I was covered in rashes and welts and I'd feel it almost burning me. Very hot. Itchy too. They would subside to a point but took a few hours sometimes. I realised what it was, so I would encourage this process with exercise or hot baths.

A doctor sent me some quality vitamin C powder and selenium drops. This encouraged further elimination of metals via the skin. So I could not tolerate too much because of the symptoms from too much toxin movement/removal. I was that filled with mercury that it didn't take much to set off detox. The mercury was made very available by the DMPS challenge test, which I believe pushed it into accessible areas all over my body!

So I spent sometime on hot baths and supplements. I did try chlorella and things, but again I coudl not take the symptoms. I cried and salivated everyday almost as my body tried its best to get rid of the metals, further increased by any attempt at pushing detox further by supplements etc.

So let's say that I experimented with different things like this for probably a year or so. I used DMSA, only one 50 mg capsule (on its own) and this would cause horrific symptoms. I coudl not tolerate it and would wind up almost going insane. I did not know about cutler's protocol then, so didn't know what was happening to me (redistribution).

I "think" i started using Cutler's around the age of 28 years old...probably around 2001 or so. But I believe I had already elminated some metals, I just needed to do more and his was working pretty well when I think back. I did it intermittently as well. I just did one week on and one week off when I felt up to it. I started to feel healthier and more normal by 2002.

I can honestly say that by age 29 - 30 years of age I was becoming a healthy and happy person. All the stored mercury was beginning to be reduced enough for me to start experiencing proper and prolonged improvements, instead of unstable intermittent ones that never used to last before more mercury would come up to be eiminated. When you are detoxing mercury, you get the roller coaster ride. But when you've eliminated enough, you start feeling better overall. It just hit me oneday out of the blue, I suddenly felt something had shifted, I was getting well.

So I can say that from the time I started detoxing mercury e.g. 1999, I was getting well by 2002. It took about 2-3 years. But remember I hardly did any chelation during that time and was only doing half pie attempts and using all sorts of things which only mainly mobilised it, rather than proper strong chelation. So I believe that Andy's was the main one to clean me up in the end and I only started using his in 2001....

I only used the DMSA part of his too, never got onto the ALA because I already felt I was quite well and happy.

I plummeted later from infections (bacteria/viral) and got worse after wisdom tooth removal. This has not been something I"ve been able to recover from like mercury. It is actually worse. So it's kind of sad that I got so well with years of effort from amalgam removal and detox and got only a relatively small time period of being 'well" and then this happened.