Hi Jeanie,

I used cutler's protocol with DMSA for a long time and I was still getting detox reactions from it, which is why I didn't go and switch to ALA. I was healing very well and life was looking good.

However, at the time I was still detoxing, I got the severe eye infection, which spread into the rest of my system and become a chronic illness which has never gone.

Now, after this, plus further dental work (which I suspect may have caused an underlying infection somewhere), my active detoxing and healing came to a total standstill.

This could have been from the still present mercury and/or possible damaged immunity or simply lowered immunity which allowed the virus/bacteria to get in and take an awful toll on me. It's not so easy to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Things are different now and from other challenges/damage to my immune system, my body does not respond to chelation/detox protocols. It pretty much came to a standstill from that time onwards. There could be more to it, more dental work may have created jawbone infection because that too was done during that time. Andy mentions how cavitations can be the cause of a person coming to a standstill from detoxing mercury.

This might be why my body simply doesn't respond to chelation. Yet it used to and very very well. So well, I couldn't handle the symptoms at times and had to keep taking breaks. This is no longer the case.

So it's all very well to consider that I never finished up andy's protocol with ALA, but I never got the chance to do so, before I was hit with all this at the time I was still healing from mercury poisoning, which stopped my body from asserting itself and actively responding to detox/chelation.

If I want that to change? I would need to remove the barriers that are preventing my system from properly dealing with the still contained mercury. Easier said than done, it's a mysterious problem and hasn't been detected for exactly what it is.

Without being gross here, I have a metallic discolouration down in the nether regions (private parts where it ought to be pink). Like a dark grey tattooing. Now this was bad when I had amalgams many years ago, but it started to improve and fade after amalgam removal and detox (took years). However, since the virus? And since I still have mercury in my system and no doubt further exposure from dental office visits, the discolouration has returned and is worse than ever.

This is one of the signs of mercury poisoning. Men can get it there also. Grey discolouration in the genitals. It's embarrassing to admit, but this might ring a bell with someone else who may have this. You need to check yourself there and have a look (inside where it should be pink). It's similar to the tattooing that people can get in the gums.

It's interesting how my healing corresponded with this tattooing going away. Yet it returned when my body could no longer keep up with the detoxing and the still contained mercury started to build up in the tissues again, instead of being detoxed out like it had been. Add that plus further visits to dental office which exposed my vulnerable system to further mercury vapor, and you can see the possibility of what might be going on.

If I responded in anyway to chelation? I'd be actively doing it. I've tried many times since, with ALA included. No response. Yes, some increased yeast, but nothing else. I even used very high doses, which should have produced "something".