I'm really happy to hear your amalgams are going to come out. Thank goodness you have a stock of DMSA on hand, because the quicker you can get into this? The better. Because there often comes a time later post amalgam removal when stored mercury begins to leak back out. So the quicker you can get on with chelating, the quicker your mercury levels will be reduced and then later - organ mercury when you're able to start using the Alpha lipoic acid.

But step by step!

My health is iffy, but I felt better yesterday. But feel worse again today. It is very hard sometimes to maintain a never cheat lifestyle. And as always, falling off the wagon yields disastrous results. Sometimes I think I might handle it better, but it appears I don't. It takes many weeks to recover, which is evident of a very lowered/challenged immunity. Because if that were not so, I would not crash completely after cheating or take so long to recover again. So I'm still in recovery mode at the moment. Usually it takes about 5-8 weeks.

I haven't continued chelation no. I'm thinking of doing ALA when I recover from the cheat, but I'm dubious because I know that my yeast problem worsen when I do. Which some feel IS a sign of mercury. Perhaps yes. But I haven't noticed any other signs of mercury detox when I use it, or any improvements after I've stopped. Yet that was ALWAYS the case once. So it is confusing.

I have in fact bought a small bottle of ALA. The lowest I could get was 60 mg. But I don't mind, considering my last trials of ALA were in much bigger doses and I still noted no real reaction (aside from my candida problem being worse). In fact, all i felt was my gut being further screwed up by it.

But we'll see.

But anyway, best wishes on your journey in getting this poison out of your system.