Thanks JK, I'll reconsider selenium and zinc. I probably still have half-empty bottles of both. BTW I kept getting illness after illness until I bumped my vitamin C up to 9 grams a day. It is wonderful stuff, you should read some Linus Pauling. Where in the body can mercury get tightly bound? What can someone do when that happens?

Jammes, I had my amalgams out without protection in June 2007. I felt worse straight away. Tried "natural"chelators at first but they didn't help. I then got on DMSA and that did help quite a lot, and fairly quickly too. After a couple of months I added ALA, then simply increased the dose of each, alternately, little by little. I was doing 3 days on 3 days off, every 3 hours apart from a little longer at night, as Cutler recommends. My symptoms always get worse in the winter and my progress slowed quite a lot; also, I felt so bad off chelation that I decided to do it continually. I stopped last February. How many rounds? I lost count, your guess is as good as mine from that