bfree

to go back to your question - how long does it take? - Bex is right. It takes a LONG time if you are severely poisoned, unless you were lucky and realised what was going on early on in the poisoning and acted promptly, in which case you could hope for a quick recovery. For most of us who sufffered a total collapse of health from mercury toxicity and who have had amalgams for decades, recovery will take years. I read somewhere it will take one month for every year you had amalgams. I had amalgams for at least 30 years, so I am looking at 2 1/2 - 3 years of chelation, and I am betting it will take longer than that. It is a long, agonising process, but, like Bex, I believe that Cutler's way is the safest and most logical. It has taken the toxins decades to accumulate and do their damage - so it will take a long time to clear them safely and let the body heal as far as it can.

Most of the people who post on the boards are actively removing amalgams or chelating. So they will be hanging around for a good few years. After they get better they stop posting, and so we don't hear about them leading normal lives again. So the view you get on these boards is biased towards the sick people. It IS discouraging, but you've just got to keep chelating, eating a good diet and hoping your body will come through.
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Nicola