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What is happening?

What is happening to you is completely normal during chelation. The reactions you get are standard. Each round is slightly different in any event, varying symptoms is completely normal.

This is the reason why the initial starting dose should be low to start with. It takes a couple of rounds to get going. The dose is built up gradually as your mercury body burden is lowered.

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I am scheduled to start the next chelation round tommorow, however I am afraid to start it. Perhaps I need a few weeks off?

Simple: Then delay the round. If you are not feeling ok, then doing another round will just make you feel worse and take longer to recover from. Chelation is hard work for your body and it needs a rest to recover inbetween rounds. Just delay by a couple of days, a week if you need. You seem in such a rush…..the more you rush the more easy problems can creep up on you…..there is no rush…chelation takes time, the effects are like watching a clock…..you cannot see the hands moving but they are and over time you will get better.

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I don't want to go to a lower dose
why not? If you lower the dose you will get less symptoms. Lowering the dose does not massively reduce the mercury removed. As I said before, chelation take a long time….so when you chelate you need to be able to function, to live your life….there is a lower dose that will give you no or only mild side effects…find it and stick with it. 50mg ALA is a real HIGH dose to be starting with. There is no shame in reducing the dose, you have nothing to prove to anyone ……… I just reduced my dose from 6mg to 5mg and I have done 15 rounds with dmsa only. I have also extended the length of time inbetween rounds. I was doing 3 days on 4 days off, but gonna do 3 days on, 11 days off.

I would also suggest you join Yahoo Frequent dose chelation group. The people there are much more experienced than I and you will get a wider spread of advice/explanations. You will learn much from reading other peoples problems/success. It is dedicated to the Cutler protocol.

If i where you, i'd half the dose to 25mg and rest a few more days until you feel a tad better.

Good luck.


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