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!