Hi Tia,

I'm sorry to hear you are a little wore, but not too surprised. Post amalgam removal, I was worse. I got worse about a year and a half after it because the mercury was still in my tissues and trying to come out. The slow dumping of mercury is like being repoisoned and yes, you nee to chelate it out of you because you can stay that way for years and years, feeling chronically ill.

Candida treatment will help, but I did not overdo it by taking antifungals and probiotics because they caused problems for me and I hear they can in mercury toxic people. Too strong a treatment can cause yeast to die too quickly and spit their cell walls open, not only releasing yeast toxins, but any mercury that is contained. This poisons the system - gut/liver etc. So one needs to be careful of that. Apparently, according to one health professional, probiotics should also not be used in mercury toxicity as he feels it methylates the mercury. Not sure how true this is or what. But it can indeed cause reactions, not just "die off".

I found diet to be the safest way to go for me personally. Eliminating all sugar/honey/fruit/high carbohydrates/grains/milk/cream/all gluten products and yeast/coffee and getting enough quality protein and fats from meat/chicken/liver/eggs/butter/lard etc. Hal Huggins recommends such a diet to mercury toxic people. No it's not a "cure", but it's a help and it aids detox, improves the gut and liver and puts the body in a better position to fight the mercury. Keeping yeast manageable by not feeding it helped me. Antifungals and probiotics sadly appeared to cause more problems than not.

For chelation? The only one I could tolerate and the only one at this point I would recommend to others is the Andy Cutler protocol. His protocol is logical and very popular and well tolerated. I found other ways of removing my mercury extremely risky. His works by a well thought out method - taking a low dose of DMSA every 4 hours around the clock (even through the night). For about 3 days (or more if tolerable, up to a week if one wishes). Then you take a break of the same amount of time you had on the DMSA (or longer if needed). E.g. 3 days on, 3 days off. Or one week on, one week off. You can take a longer break period if you require it. E.g. 3 days on, 5 days off for example.

Outside of this? I did not tolerate much else. The reactions from doing it any other way were pretty horrendous. So I mainly stuck with his and it works very very well and keeps symptoms somewhat manageable and doesn't push the mercury all over the place or even into worse areas, that other methods can do. The very 4 hour dosage keeps the DMSA levels in the body even. This means that the movement/removal of mercury is more constant and safer. AFter 4 hours the levels of DMSA drop, so this is why another dose is given before that can occur. If the levels of chelating agents are not constant in the blood stream, the movement of mercury becomes erratic, which poses a risk in that it can go into worse and more sensitive areas.

Please consider Cutler's protocol. Here is a link where you can find out more about it and the questions asked http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/ANDY_INDEX.html

His book is available online and on this forum. It is called "Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment" by Andrew Hall Cutler. I HIGHLY recommend this book. For me it was essential and I read it so often during my mercury toxic days. It was worth every cent. YOu should see it on the left of this page, yellow book.

I'm not sure enough about Algin to make a comment. The most important thing is to chelate the mercury out of you to get you well. And that needs to be done in the safest manner possible.

Cheers