You're welcome Samh. I'm very glad to hear the DMSA has helped you! Perhaps this means you simply need to chelate with DMSA alone for sometime before introducing a brain chelator?

What dose are you on and are you taking it every 4 hours? I found that many times DMSA corrected a dreadful reaction from backfire effects/redistribution when taken in this way.

I do not believe, after my experience, that minerals are nearly enough to heal from this condition. Neither is diet, but they can help in that they support and replace what mercury depletes. And certain minerals/elements displace the mercury and may well precipitate some movement/removal of metals in the process, but a chelator is required to chelate the mercury OUT. The more mercury that is chelated out, the better the health becomes and the more the body can absorb and utilise nutrients. Candida may also need to be treated for similar reasons. I was unable to make proper progress until I took onboard proper chelation.

DMSA was a great help in getting alot of mercury out of me. Though in hindsight it was not enough because brain/organ mercury must at some point be chelated out also. ALA appears to be the one to do this, but only when blood/body mercury are reduced.