Hi Deecee,

you're welcome! I also thought DMSA chelated brain mercury until I found out how they tested it. I suppose it's a mixed blessing because it's good for using early on to clear out the other areas before using a brain chelator like ALA.

I cannot remember how long I used DMSA for to be honest. I used it in the latter stages if I recall and that's when I started making bigger strides in health. But it was still not easy to go through. I could handle it only when it was taken Cutler's way. I could not handle any other method of using DMSA and if I tried to take just one isolated capsule of it, the effects were frightening. Yet if I took one cap every 4 hours around the clock? The effects were not frightening. Admittedly I still detox happening and often felt increasingly tired as the round went on, which was either chelation of mercury or just the fact I was on DMSA for an extended period of time. I took 50 mg every 4 hours non stop for about a week if I could make it to that long. Sometimes I had to stop after 5 days or so because the effects would often increase as time wore on and became too much towards the end.

I am not sure how many rounds of this I did because I was quite inconsistent and lazy in chelation. I must have felt benefits inbetween because I often missed chelating so I could keep enjoying the improvements instead, but there was still too much mercury inside because I would always feel the effects of the remaining mercury sooner or later, or it was too easily stirred up by other means.

I had my amalgams out in about mid 1997 (the last of them). I got ill immediately following the last removal. Dramatically so, headaches, tremors, the whole deal and this is no doubt because I swallowed the removed grains of mercury during removal because the assistant failed to suction them out. The dam was removed and the grains of amalgam still sitting in my mouth were swallowed. I was told it was no big deal. Yet it obviously was because my lips were shaking all the way home. Then I had headaches and crying spells.

I was 24 years of age. I think I had a bit of chelation, but hardly anything at that stage, done in the wrong manner, though I didn't feel much effects from it then. I went into a kind of remission of sorts. I seemed "okish" for quite sometime. I think it was about early 1999 when the mercury dump hit me (very late I know). (about a year and a half post amalgam removal). And then the nightmare began. I didn't know what was happening. I still remember where I was when it hit (sitting in the car). Wham, out of the blue, the symptoms came and that was it from then on.

Like being repoisoned all over again, only MUCH worse! The stored mercury was beginning to take its toll on me and was now starting to shift (leak back out). I would say 1999 - 2001, up to 2002 were pretty horrific. All my body did was try and dump mercury during that time. It was made worse by a DMPS IV injection, which pushed it all over the place and then forced my body to try and excrete via the skin as well, which then caused all over body rashes (making me look half deformed) thankfully that only occured when heating up from bath, and exercise etc. Took a few hours to calm down. Covered me literally from head to toe. Itching, pink hot rashes, Just incredible and even had welts come up. I knew it was mercury. I think this at least forced some of it out of me. Even just a good quality vitamin C powder, and selenium would be enough to encourage the process even further. Though they helped me as well (hard to explain). My body was in full detox mode and it didn't take much to push it further. Hot baths were necessary to aid the skin detox process.

But I think it was later that I used cutler's protocol and that helped get more out of me in a manner that wasn't too extreme in symptoms. Before that, I had used garlic, chlorella, and lots of things to encourage the mercury to come out, but it stirred it up too much, in a manner i could not control and left me going almost insane at times. Even a homeopathic detox kit (Heels) would push the stuff out too. It was great stuff I admit, but I had to go easy on that as well or I'd wind up pushing too much mercury into my system, more than my body could handle and I'd go into overload. Backfire effects.

I think I used Andy's protocol on and off during the last year or more. Probably around 2000 onwards, or maybe a bit later. I was coming right by 2002 for sure. The differences were marked, both in appearance and the internals (behaviour, everything). I could even cheat on my diet much more too and got away with having this and that without too much bother. If I did get a bit worse, it didn't take long to recover!

It was a wonderful feeling. It was only later when I contracted a bacteria/viral infection that things collapsed (2003) and that is something that never left my system. Unlike mercury, it' wasn't something I could just detox out. But evenso, getting on and sticking to a good strict candida diet at least helps somewhat. Without doing that, I am FAR worse. I also suspect cavitations from a wisdom tooth removal in 2004 (jawbone infection), as I worsened again after that too and found that no efforts I did paid off much at all. Chelation failed to produce any results after that as well.

In a sense, this has been worse than mercury.