Hi Bann,

There is a time when the stored mercury can start to shift and you can feel repoisoned. Things a person may have gotten away with when they had amalgams, they may not get away with post amalgam removal. This I think is because the body goes from storage mode, into detox mode following amalgam removal and the symptoms are much exacerbated.

Having amalgams appears to cause ongoing immune suppression, as well as ongoing toxicity. After they are out, it's almost as though the body then begins to assert itself and then the symptoms tend to worsen and some feel quite devastated by this. I did and I regretted removing them for a long time, until I began to remove enough mercury to where I started to feel well again. It's a heroic task I think because once you remove those amalgams, you are heading into major detox territory and sometimes it's beyond your own control. The body will try and do it regardless of what you do and you can feel very very ill.

This is why it's best to find a chelation protocol that not only chelates mercury, but keeps the symptoms more tolerable and keeps the risk factors of backfire reduced, or you can make yourself sick long term from attempting to recover from random stirring up of mercury by other methods. This can and often DOES happen and I used to fool around with chlorella and many other things and use them incorrectly and often I was ill for months following (even though I had stopped taking it). I used to be fearful that I would not come back out of it. Thankfully I did, but to this day, I have no idea whether this did any permanent damage or not.

I did finally get onto Cutler's protocol and the DMSA worked very well. Though in hindsight, I could have taken less and for less often, but I didn't realise you could. He had a specific dose and time period, but now he's reduced that for those of us more sensitive and poisoned than others. I would seriously consider using this. It can also help a person if they have used some other method and stirred mercury all over the place. Sometimes doing CUtler's protocol can correct a bad backfire occurence. Either using high sulfur products, chlorella, or chelating agents the wrong way. All can cause devastating side effects and may increase risk of permanent damage and/or increased uptake of mercury into the brain.

Symptoms are usually unavoidable anyway. The more poisoned you are, the worse they will be, particularly if you are sensitive to mercury as well. So no matter HOW good and well researched the protocol is, you may find yourself getting detox symptoms no matter what. The key is reducing them and keeping things as stable as possible and Cutler's was the ONLY one that did that for me and enabled me to get rid of more mercury and start getting well quicker. Before that? I was just screwing around with anything I could find that shifted metal around and often making myself go almost psycho in the process. Surprised I wasn't booked into a psyche unit.