No worries Ziggen. The mercurial (changeable) moods and symptoms are typical of this poison. I used to go through stages and things would remain the same, then sometimes it might switch to something else and then I'd suffer that instead. Most days were horrendous whatever stage I was going through. Early wakening, or excessive sleeping. It could switch to either, or how bad I'd feel and when. Usually I felt like sh*t most of the time regardless.

JK98, the addition of minerals from a powder I was given at that stage increased the symptoms even moreso, which does appear to prove that they were competing for binding sites with the mercury. Which I gather caused the disruption. The competing against eachother, tends to mobilise the mercury in my experience. I found similar with antioxidants, only they also helped me feel better at the sametime, so hard to explain. I did get an increase in symptoms with the introduction of certain supplements and even foods with high sulfur. I had to watch that one.

According to Cutler, DMSA chelation does not chelate out natural minerals. The only problem he believes is the stress of chelation itself that can do it. DMSA apparently chelates lead and mercury, but not sure about anything else. But we know that mercury causes a big problem in mineral levels and disruption. On hair tests it appears to be the big indicator that mercury is the culprit. The level of mercury is not always an accurate indicator, as a person can show low levels and be even more poisoned than someone showing higher levels.

Higher levels can mean the mercury is being excreted. Low levels can mean the person is very poisoned, but not excreting it. It's tightly bound in other words. There are many reasons for high or low levels. High can of course mean alot of mercury too, but it may also indicate it's coming out. Low may well mean low, but it may mean retention toxicity. Cutler tends to look at the minerals to see if mercury is at work. The specific minerals and the patterns they show in the hair seems to be the better indication.

There are also tests one can do to provoke mercury to come out and show up in urine, but one must be careful with those. Cutler gives one that people can do that appears to be a safer way and more effective manner to test for it.

Ziggen, when you are poisoned enough, it can be very difficult to even get up in the morning, let alone take the right supplements etc. It's a very difficult situation because the more poisoned a person is, the more they should be doing to help their symptoms, yet the less they are motivated or even able to do as much to help themselves. Even Andy has admitted that some people are so poisoned, that they can barely follow, let alone carry out instructions.

So it's a challenge to do anything. But do what you CAN do when you can do it. I found that I needed to keep things as simple as possible, or I would become so upset and so overwhelmed, I'd sit and do NOTHING. Or I'd overdo something and make myself so ill, I was good for nothing for sometime afterwards. I personally found that the most necessary thing at that time for me as the basic diet, basic supplement regime and getting the mercury OUT with Cutler's protocol. It isn't easy either when your symptoms get worse with certain supplements, so you don't know if you're reacting badly, or it's just toxins being shifted around more as a result.