My lead levels were higher than my mercury too. My mercury blood levels were off the charts when I first tested but in combo with the urine and bm analysis' my lead was actually higher overall.

I really liked the EDTA. My doctor did IV EDTA with me, and then added DMPS later for the mercury, to get a good amount of lead out first, which the EDTA is pretty good at. The IV is different than something like oral dmsa in that it goes straight into your bloodstream, and bypasses the liver that way, as opposed to an oral chelator like dmsa which will go to your liver first, leaving very little to clean your blood unless you do lots of high doses I guess.. So your blood gets cleaned out real good and you really don't experience any redristribution as a result. I didn't anyway. It feels terrible the first few weeks especially, but after that you should make quick progress, feeling lousy the day of chelation but having the rest of the week to feel pretty good. then that week becomes two weeks of feeling good etc etc. and you can start moving off the IV to something else, in my case I started eating a lot of cilantro and had a great summer. In january, Feb and March of 2007 i was limping, all my bones hurt, I couldn't run, I walked slowly. I was running without any pain whatsoever by May of 2007. I started chelation in mid Feb of that year. I stopped the IV's altogether in late May/early June, no longer feeling the need to spend the cash after discovering the cilantro. I transitioned into the cilantro by using a dmsa formula a few times a week before bed. Just once a day like that, i didn;t have any problems with it whatsoever, probably because my blood had been cleaned out.

I really miss my fresh cilantro, but May is just around the corner...

The EDTA makes you look real good too. Friends were asking me where I had found the fountain of youth. It cleans out your arteries and improves your blood flow plus chelates the lead. i did the slow drip, the 3-4 hour sessions.

Do some colon cleansing too with that. The IV chelators dissolve a lot of stuff in your blood and you pee it out but some of it will go out via your colon too so you need to keep yourself moving along real good down there to avoid achy hips etc.

The EDTA did give me headaches, not major migraines but a good hefty pressure... eating just a little bit of cilantro afterward helped that too.

Take a quart of water with you if you get the IV and sip it as you chelate so that you pee quickly.

I am (almost) a new woman. I think the lead had been bothering me for years and I never knew it.