@Kitsune

I know this advice comes a bit too late, but this is not the best thing you can do for yourself. You need to chelate with LA (lipoic acid) no more than half the time: three days on, three days off. Otherwise you build up toxic amounts of zinc and copper in your body.

What really happened: while you were taking LA and DMSA, heavy metals in your blood stayed bound to the chelators and could not do much damage. Once the chelators were gone, your blood was flooded with mercury and it sort of deactivated your immune system. My experience is that about 24 hours after stopping LA, you are at the lowest point and it is really easy to get down with a cold. What this means is you need to reduce the dose of LA on your next round of chelation and when next time you stop LA keep taking DMSA for a few more days on the proper DMSA schedule (every three to four hours day and night).


Don't do this again (no ALA while having a cold). Take only DMSA because LA while being an antioxidant is also a very potent chelator which crosses cell membranes and you get the opposite effect. Instead of pulling mercury out of your blood with DMSA you are flooding it again with the aid of LA with the mercury from inside your organs. If you have a cold leave the mercury in its place until you get better or you may subject yourself to a chronic bronchitis or something similar. It's not worth it. Chelation must be done with utmost care. (Guess how I know. I made my own share of mistakes.)
In the situation you are right now I would only take DMSA (no LA) and take a dose at the upper limit of what I personally tolerate (200mg every two hours, but that's me), plus Cutler supplements (particularly Vitamin A and zinc in the amounts discussed in his book, http://www.noamalgam.com/).
http://www.ontohigherlevel.com/articles/