Hi Jinx,

Your sitatuation is heart breaking. I had my amalgams out in mid 1997. I did not start dumping until early 1999 and things worsened signicantly from there. So it took me over a year. Not that this is remotely comforting to you.

I also didn't know it was dumping, I just felt repoisoned and it was horrible to say the least. Some people start early, some later. I did get worse immediately after amalgam removal, probably from exposure and swallowing mercury but this subsided somewhat later. But then, the dump stage started and it was like poison leaking into my system.

My face was pale, and pulled inwards. And I took on a haggard appearance. THe dumping is often slow and not always understood for what it is at the time. You just feel more poisoned. But my body's way of attempting to deal with this was excessive crying and salivating explosion episodes. I haven't heard that happening with others, so it's a rather unique and strange coping mechanism and probably due to messed up liver detox pathways too.

You could have significant brain mercury. So much so that you really won't get much "dumping" because the dumping is organ mercury (in the body areas), rather than brain. The brain requires chelation for people who are severely brain poisoned and may not be able to improve by any other means. It sounds like ALA is doing "something" but the fact it's flaring up your yeast is just awful and shows your immunity is in bad shape. And is this from brain mercury? Or from some other ongoing condition/infection/challenge?

This is really difficult Jinx and people can only throw out possibilities to you. There are things that can cause illness and also interfere with mercury detox and allow yeast to be an ongoing problem - brain/body mercury (heavy poisoning), other ongoing toxicity (chemical/metal), underlying viral/bacterial infection, hidden cavitations (jawbone infection), etc. Unfortunately all these are tough to ever diagnose and treat.

I am also well aware of your efforts to detox yourself with diet, cleanses, chelation, enemas etc. Something to which those who maybe responding to such efforts may not understand or accept and that makes it even harder to go on when you see and hear others responding to their efforts and you are going through sheer ongoing hell.

I'm not sure if intervention will help, but Jinx, whatever it takes to save your life and/or keep you going, do it. I hate to think you'd react badly to any meds and I'd never advocate them, but some have indeed been helped, others made worse. You never know which way it'll go and I just wish you had someone who dealt in toxicities, PLUS found ways of helping to alleviate symptoms whilst treating the patient for their toxicity or other condition.

I think the fact you react to ALA maybe significant and may well show where the problem lies (the brain). However, brain mercury can also cause bad yeast problems, so it's a two edged sword. ALA flares yeast up and did so in me also, horribly so. But I did not get any real detox reactions from it whilst taking it. Even though I was on 200 mg at one point every 3 hours.....that should have caused a massive reaction if there was significant mercury in the brain or elsewhere and it did almost nothing....so for me, I feel I'm dealing mainly with infection type condition, rather than mercury. HOwever, I believe mercury was the CAUSE of putting my system in a vulnerable state at the time I got these infections.

I'm sorry that I can't post an answer for you Jinx. I'm just a layperson and as confused as you are about some of these stubborn and more horrible cases.