Hi stuart,

It's interesting you mention your face looking all sucked in. That happened to me when mercury toxic and also when detoxing from mercury. It gave me a feeling of mouth constriction, like things were being pulled inwards. The symptoms you are mentioning here are probably due to the mercury being chelated one way or the other. Feeling stoned is another one. I have gone through these symptoms.

I don't know if there is a chelator better for vaccines. I'm assuming that it would be much the same for amalgams. DMSA chelates extra cellular mercury (mercury outside of cells and the one in which should be used first to clear blood/tissue). And ALA chelate intracellular mercury/organ mercury. Which should be used once blood levels have first been reduced.

This would apply I'm sure for any mercury toxic situation. However you got the exposure, ALA should not be used with amalgams. And it should not be used earlier than 3 months post amalgam removal or other mercury exposure. During that 3 months it is wise to use DMSA, but some simply wait it out and then use ALA by itself when 3 months is up.

I personally feel that DMSA should be used. And I think for sometime, probably even longer than specified, as it was STILL causing enough symptoms in me to make me realise that I probably wouldn't be so good at tolerating ALA until I was able to use DMSA without so many symptoms. However, ALA is necessary in the respect it starts chelating organs and in doing so, prevents the mercury from building back up again because there comes a time when the mercury does start leaking/dumping out of the organs. So I think that's why Cutler suggests getting onto the organs rather promptly.