Originally Posted by Bex
Hi Stuart,

From what I recall from what others have said and what I have experienced myself, what you are getting sounds like a pretty good response. Though it's probably not fun to go through, I have indeed heard the description of feeling like something is being moved around. And the other one is the mind slowing down, which I had on DMSA alone.....so not sure how, when DMSA is said not to chelate brain mercury. I really would like to know how that happened.

Not only would I get brain fog, but my thinking would slow down to where it was very annoying. My thoughts became almost non existent because of it. I'd sit in a state of fogginess without thought.

Another one is an increase in emotions, sometimes upsetting. There is also strange euphoria that can occur, which apparently is not so unpleasant! But not always easy to handle either. At any rate, depression, anxiety and other things can increase. You are not just removing mercury from the brain, you are removing it from the organs. So you can indeed get some symptoms that feel psychological, but sometimes this can apparently be mercury being removed from elsewhere, not always the brain.

I have heard people also say that they can almost FEEL the mercury being moved/removed and sometimes the sensation is so strong, they have to keep taking breaks. I used to find that my chelation even with DMSA would cause symptoms that would increase as the round went on. I'd seem ok at day one, by they would gradually get worse until I felt really sick and would have to stop. They were not out of control though or dangerous, which I used to get on other random protocols or products.

What is the brand of ALA you are using? Perhaps others may want to know so they can order it. Who knows why the other brand/s made you so ill and yet you can handle this brand? That is odd. Is the dosage different or the same as the other brands you tried? I had horrible candida flare ups on the one I tried last year. But sadly I had no sensation of mercury being chelated. I am really not wanting to try ALA again regardless. I was using super high doses and it was from a lab, a really good quality one and still no sign of mercury being moved/removed. Just candida getting MUCH MUCH worse and I had to battle a worse case of it from then on.

Teeth grinding is apparently a classic mercury symptoms. If ALA is causing this, it sounds like it maybe re-creating those symptoms as it's getting more mercury out of you.
When I cleans I get bad Candida symptoms as well! Hell Algin and Chlorella are actually giving me symptoms now! I know Algin is not a chelator so to speak, but the teeth grinding is there after using it and when I use Chlorella it gets worse! I know both are very safe when used together though, as I have tolerated Chlorella WELL for years. I have to wake up or take a anticandida herb late at night though, usually GSE or Pau Darco tincture which works really well for me and symptoms subside (They never fail me). I get like you guys thugh, really hot or teeth grinding and a feeling of my brain spewing so to speak! It just feels so weird.

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