Note: You must NOT use ALA too early in the programme, as it is a brain chelating agent. Blood/tissue levels of mercury MUST be reduced first. Either by waiting it out (for months) or using DMSA.

Then, once levels are reduced, ALA can be used to start reducing organ mercury (brain included). If you use it too early when blood/body levels are still high, you risk the ALA taking that mercury up into the brain with it.

Please make sure you read carefully about the Cutler protocol before rushing in using either of those chelating agents, so you know how to use them, or you can risk moving mercury around wildly and possibly making yourself worse in the process.

You can start by having a read here:
INFORMATIVE POSTS BY ANDY CUTLER

And for testimonies in relation to this protocol? You can read here:
CUTLER PROTOCOL TESTIMONIES

I am very sorry to hear of your pains, but this is not abnormal following amalgam removal and certainly if you have had your amalgams removed by a regular dentist without proper protection, then you would have been exposed to a large/acute amount of mercury vapor. Which would have poisoned you.

I can only repeat what StuartUK has suggested to you by starting with getting rid of sugar, wheat/gluten and yeast products out of your diet. Many people with mercury poisoning can have a yeast overgrowth inside their body called "candida". This can make things much worse for you, so you will be wise to get rid of the foods that make things worse.

Consume enough protein foods like eggs and meat and enough animal fats like butter - as these are very helpful and protective in mercury toxicity.

Rid your diet of ANY fish (which contain mercury) and that includes wheat, because wheat is treated with mercury fungicide. believe me, sugar and wheat/gluten and yeast are for many, three main dietry enemies and for me, they were a cause of poisoning almost in themselves.

Diet alone can help a person feel better, but it can take a few weeks. And once you start, you may feel worse at first as a certain amount of toxins are sure to come out. Please bear with this process, as can make you feel much better once it is over. Try not to cheat on the diet and consume any sugar/wheat/gluten/yeast.

You need to chelate/detox the mercury out of your body, but I would give your body a chance to respond to the diet (if you decide to do it and I hope you do). Because it may make you stronger and healthier and better able to detox the mercury. Hot baths, exercise etc, can also help with the detox of mercury through the skin.

Supplements can also help support you and increased antioxidants/minerals are very important as mercury depletes them severely. Vitamin C, E and selenium maybe helpful to you. But be careful, as increasing antioxidants alone can increase the power of detox and you may find your symptoms increase. So start slowly and see what you can cope with.

Chelation is in the end, the only real cure to this condition and I suggest you try and get hold of DMSA to start with. And follow the Cutler protocol.