Bex, if you're there, can you remember how you felt between your first rounds of chelation? My memory of mine is hazy but I have a memory of feeling better on chelation and a little worse when resting.

It's just that the past couple of "rest" days have been rough. I'm quite fatigued, especially in the evenings. My stomach is upset off and on, again particularly in the evenings, and the headache sneaks back a little at that time too. I was having mild palpitations and racing heart (90 bpm when resting) and experienced that briefly today, though it seems to be dying down -- my feeling is that it was connected with a long release of adrenaline. My insomnia's got worse. It wasn't too bad before. I hadn't expected this to be going on between rounds.

I've been taking some pancreatin digestive enzymes and thought I was OK with them because they haven't caused the gastrointestinal upset that other digestive enzymes have; they are enteric coated to be effective in the small intestine. I'll stop those, and the selenium too, and see if either of those has been contributing to this, though I'm not sure why they would. I'm only taking 200mcg of selenium.

I've resolved to be brave this time and not allow fears to make me stop chelating. I'm just concerned. The positive effects from those first couple of days of chelation, with ALA alone and later with ALA/DMSA, have completely vanished. I'm hoping that someone with chelation experience can tell me that this can just be the way it goes for a while and that I haven't done something horrible to myself.