Hi Cleft,

Let us know how the DMSA goes for you. It'll be interesting to see if you get symptoms from using it. If not? Then yeah, you may need to shift back to the ALA. You can use both by the way, as the DMSA can sometimes help with side effects.

I never took anything to really aid with the rashes or suppress them. I actually encouraged them to intensify because I knew it meant more toxins/metals coming out. It was a good indicator to me when they got worse and I knew things were happening. It also got me feeling better faster too I'm certain of it.

I didn't get the chance to recover Cleft. I was healing very well though, and was REALLY starting to enjoy life and be happy, but it wasn't to last long. Just when I started healing and noticing big improvements in my mercury condition, I got hit with some kind of serious infection (virus/bacteria, not sure) that seriously affected my immune system. If that was not bad enough? I then got much worse following dental work (tooth extractions). and since then, nobody has been able to really figure out what exacty went wrong. All the healing stopped from that point on and I was no longer responding to detox efforts. I didn't even get rashes anymore. I could not even sweat properly and trying to made me very ill and overheated.

It was like everything was suppressed and I was no longer actively healing/detoxing mercury. So my time of improving came to a standstill almost. And I then had to deal with a very new and in a way, worse set of problems.

The only thing that has managed my sickness these days has been a very strict diet regime. One slip on the diet causes a complete relapse, which then takes me 2 months or so to recover again. So my immunity is in very bad shape. Even worse than it was with just mercury poisoning. HOwever, I believe the years of being poisoned with mercury was no doubt a cause or contributing factor as to why I was suseptible/vulnerable to these later things occuring and remaining.

I am considering doing some ALA at some point. I have tried DMSA, but no longer get symptoms. I have tried ALA, but I don't get symptoms either, apart from flaring of yeast (which may well be a sign of still contained mercury). Problem is, my body does not respond properly to detox and this is where the problem is. Whereas once it responded dramatically. So there is a big difference in my condition.

However, before the virus and tooth extraction - I'll give you a quick low down. I had the last of my amalgams out by 1997. I was very ill from the last removal, as I swallowed the removed grains of amalgam due to negligence on the part of the dentist and assistant. From then, I went home and had tremors and headaches and crying. A doctor gave me some high dose DMSA, which I took without following Cutler's protocol (as I had not yet heard of it). Luckily I was not on it for long and it did appear to clear a bit of mercury at the time.

I did not more chelation from that point on, because I didn't feel "too" bad and was also very ignorant of stored mercury. I had no idea of the future issues it would cause by leaving it there and doing nothing about it.

By about early 1999 all hell broke loose. The stored mercury began to shift and i have no idea what set it off, but this is something Cutler has mentioned. They call it the second phase of suffering. When stored mercury starts to dump back out (or leak out) and fill a person up. It is like being repoisoned. I was alarmed and thought I was being poisoned again and started blaming my replacement materials - because I didn't understand what was happening to me. All the re-testing and even replacing some "suspect" composites did NOT help me. It was the mercury!

Then in panic, I went to a doctor who I believed knew what he was doing. He didn't. He gave me a DMPS IV push. This was to test me for mercury levels. Unfortunately, only ONE sample of urine was taken. So whilst the DMPS IV certainly took its toll and shunted stored mercury all over the place, barely anything went into the urine at that point. So the testing showed hardly any mercury. I was then no longer "believed".

Hair testing showed similar results - very low levels. Come to find out, this can be a serious problem. It can show retention toxicity. Such a person who shows obvious signs of mercury toxicity, but low levels on testing are the toughest patients to cure, because they are not pushing the mercury out into the hair/urine properly. So low levels of mercury do not always give a true indication and can be misleading.

So I was on my own pretty much playing around and taking all kinds of things to try and get this mercury out of me, since the DMPS had pushed it everywhere, it didn't take much to set off detox reactions from taking further products. One was chlorella, which often caused such extreme responses, that I'd wind up a mess on the floor screaming. Though even ordinarily, I would spend most of my days salivating uncontrollably/excessively and would have to lean over a bowl or the toilet or a sink. My face would puff up from the pressure, but I simply had no control. I went through many hankies a day and would often by lying in bed. I would cry, salivate and then I'd get this amazing clear patch and I'd feel heaps better, before the next lot would build up again.

So the mercury would continue to try and come out and my body could not handle it properly, so the only way was out throught skin, and tears/saliva. that is how I've always excreted most toxins. I cannot seem to do it any other way.

This went on for a long time before I discovered Cutler's protocol. I think around the year 2000 is when I started on Cutler's protocol. And by around the year 2002 - 2003 I was well on the road to recovery - or so I thought. I certainly FELT increasingly good. people remarked on the change in my appearance too, so it wasn't just the inside, but it showed on the outside.

But unfortunately right after that, I got the virus and then the dental extraction, which all tipped my health into a chronic state, which as I said, has not enabled me to continue the process of healing that I had been before. Everything came to an abrupt standstill around that time. But again, I wish to try ALA again soon and will report on what happens.