Originally Posted by Birdlady
I've been pretty quiet around here recently. Going through some of my own health issues--Unexplainable severe itching.

However I wanted to chime in on the DMSA causing neutropenia. I got mild neutropenia from 2 months worth of DMSA. I started at 15mg and was up to 25mg.

These past 5-6 weeks have been terrible for me. The freaking itching is making me go crazy, so I started taking Zyrtec. (You know it's bad when I am taking medicines) I have been feeling pretty blah. Different than what I had normally been feeling though. My WBC were low, neutrophil count low. They were not like chemo patient low, but I was trying to be careful with where I was and who I was around. I had been off of the DMSA for about 8 days when I had the first set of blood work done. I knew something wasn't right.

Then I had more blood work done at about 14 days out from DMSA and everything went back up. Phew... Liver enzymes are slightly elevated, which are also probably from the DMSA. I don't see any other reason because I don't drink nor take OTC pain relievers.

If any of you think your neutrophils are low, then get blood work done to verify. You'll need a CBC with differential. If they are low, it can be much more dangerous than some yeast flaring up. You could find yourself in the hospital if it gets really bad.

I may be completely abandoning DMSA for ALA when I start to detox again. Probably start at like 4 or 5mg every 3 hours. I need to sort out a few other health concerns before I start up though. No this is not me putting it off either, I need to get my thyroid sorted out. TSH went down to 0.01 the other day for some unknown damn reason. I am hoping it was a lab error!


Birdlady, I am so sorry to hear all this. Also sorry to say, your thyroid results are not likely an error. My thyroid crashed not long after I had all my amalgams removed. I didn't do it safely and did it all very quickly. I pretty much "hit the wall" after I had it all done. With all fairness I'm also an O type and we are prone to thyroid issues with the wrong diet and it had been borderline for several years already. I'd also suffered a miscarriage right before I learned it was low or else the pregnancy helped cause the crash. The low thyroid could've also caused the miscarriage. I've been on 120 mgs. of Armour for several years now. At first the bozo wanted me to try synthetics which I had hives from in AK and had never used Armour. He had me up to 240 mgs. even when I told him I was feeling like it was too much. This guy was a real A hole. Had to go over his head to even get help. He told me I was on toxic dosages. I was losing weight like crazy and felt like I was in hyperdrive. Anyway - good luck. The glands are affected with mercury and its always a risk when releasing it, but it was likely there already, too. Pretty sure my pituitary and hypothalamus are affected and who knows what else. Kelp is very good for thyroid. Partly the reason its so good for mercury toxic folk.

I have to say, after hearing this, I'm thinking I'll use ala only at this point. Natural....

Last edited by Jeanie; 12/13/08 04:43 PM.