Hi all,

Hope everyone is doing well and happy to have found such an awesome forum!

Anyways i have just started my first ever DMSA+ALA chelation and the dose is at 25mg+50mg too start off with but looking to increase ALA real soon.

First i like too give some info about me background, experiences with mercury poisoning, supplements, hormones,TRT,progress i made and recent findings.

Bit of a long read but very interesting at that and may contain some info that can help others


I found out i had mercury poisoning from a hair analysis done in start of 09 but had many symptoms several years before hand at age 20ish.

Here are some of the results :

Mercury 2.3 <0.80
Titanium 0.76 <0.70

All of the other toxic elements were well under range apart from these 2.

Minerals

Magnesium 57 40-140
Sodium 86 60-400
Potassium 45 28-160
Copper 9.2 11-32
Zinc 186 120-200
Manganese 0.10 0.15-0.65
Chromium 0.28 0.40-0.70
Boron 0.24 0.40-2.5
Iodine 0.15 0.25-1.8
Lithium 0.003 -0.008 -0.030
Selenium 0.86 0.80-1.3
Strontium 1.2 1.0-6.0
Sulfur 40200 41000-47000
Cobalt 0.004 0.006-0.035
Iron 8.2 7.0-16
Germanium 0.030 0.030-0.040
Zirconium 0.042 0.040-1.0

So from this i did daily research and did some more tests.

Later on i found out this mercury poisoning shut down my adrenals, thyroid, testosterone,hgh and had many
low neurotransmitter, amino acid and vitamin urine test results.

I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue,hypothyoid,hypogonadism from low cortisol saliva 24hr 4x a day test, low free t3+free t4 levels
from thyroid blood test, low testosterone total from blood test.

First i tried the natural ways in vitamins, supplements, minerals, sea salt, amino acids, diet,life changes before trying
any hrt. Did a few testosterone restarts but highest it got too was 400ish total testosterone from 200ish, range was 400-1200ng/dl.

At around 17 i had natural total testosterone levels of 1000+ng/dl so this mercury caused it too drop
down too 200ish ng/dl in just a few years even while during my youth.

Had tried clomid, hcg,hmg for natural testosterone restart. Looked at other hormones as well like
prolactin, shbg, estradiol etc too seee if it was cause of low testosterone.


Anyways after over half a year of natural route, hormones symptoms stayed the same. Wont bore you with all the symptoms etc

I started b12 methyl injections, 5000mcg twice a week plus 5000mcg a day sublingual and 2500mcg
hydroxy b12 sublingual since i found out i was an undermethylator(sp) and wanted too excrete all mercury and toxins out naturally. Added in Nac, folic acid, vit c, bvit bcomplex,selenium
and many other supplements, vitamins,aminos,minerals which were low from all the testing i had done.

I tried this route too boost gluthathoine and also to get my proper detoxification pathway working.
After a week or so i felt extreme detox symptoms and was mostly in bed during this time, never left the house for
a long period. I felt this was working on getting mercury out and getting some health back from the detox symptoms.

After 5-6months of this was starting too feel alot better, some symptoms got better but strength, libido,stamina overall
energy wasnt close to what it was before being ill.Although energy was picking up so started little training again.
I had started weight lifting, particapating in boxing, mma etc from a young age of 13 and i feel this has helped alot
with the mental toughness too endure all this at a young age.

Did a few more tests and the hormones were the one that stood out. Still had low testosterone, cortisol,thyroid
hgh etc all at bottom end and some were lower than the bottom range.

Since i had exhausted all areas for over a year on natural route i decided with help of doctor too
start Trt,ghrp6,cortef,pregnenolone, dhea and armour. I started first with the adrenals
slowly onto the thyroid.

After a few more months of controlling estrogen sides from testosterone shots and finding out the right
dose of testosterone and schedule of shots, health started suddenly too come back. Overall energy, mood, strength, stamina, libido
etc drastically increased and got much much better!

Alot of the symptoms i had for several years were dissapearing or lessening to a great degree!

Now i started to have a social life after having none for several years and started picking up my training from twice
aweek 1hr each too 4-5times a week,2hrs each. Body composition totally changed in such a short period went from 22% body fat
too about 12% while gaining muscle with same diet, supplements etc Before this i could only manage very brief and short training sessions and
could only give about 50% energy output otherwise would end up worse but now slowly crept up to 90% output for 2hr
sessions with weights, boxing, mma and even contact sparring.


However i still had some symptoms of before like maintaining eye contact, similing and controlling facial expressions.
It could be from being bed ridden for all them years and not socialising or could be the damage from the mercury im not sure
but physically and mentally i feel good.


Just recently though i caught the flu 3times in a row in just 3 months from family members.Each time the flu would
last 2 weeks so 6 weeks of the flu in just the last 12 weeks! Something was causing my immune system too be weak
too keep catching this flu so easily!

Last week i thought i try a b12 methyl tab too try my luck and see if i would experience any symptoms.
Low and behold, the brain clamp, eye floaters, stabbing like pain in the brain and eyes, heavy brain fog, constant
ringing/buzzing between the ears, muscle tremours+weakness, loss of balance,social disconnection, lack of emotion,
overall tiredness/lethargic,restless leg syndrome and some more all came back after couple days of taking b12 methyl
sublingually.

I just went from being able too train 2-3hrs of boxing,mma,weights 6days a week too not being able too do
anything physically.

I did some furthur research and it seems it would be wise too chelate the mercury out of the brain with ALA.


Ive just started this a few days ago and apart from some itchiness not much detox symptoms.
Strange thing is just before the time i had the hair analysis done for MP i was on an extremely high dose
of ALA 400mg x3-4 a day(1200-1600mg aday) and it seemed to help energy and libido alot.I dont recall
any negative effects not at all close too detox symptoms from the b12 injections etc

Anyways going too give this a shot, aimming for 6days on then 8days off but if can do more than 6days
will do.I dose every 3hrs with both DMSA+ALA inc during sleep.I aim to increase ALA too 200mg max
from the 1mg a pound rule and increase DMSA from 25mg too 50mg, would increase more but cost issues

If this dmsa+ala chelation works out well i may try a testosterone restart again since now i know
there was still mercury in my brain which caused the testosterone restart too fail.Thankfully i have been on HCG along
with the TRT so i havent been fully shut down.

If anyone has any advice that would help make this more successfull please fire away, look forward
too hearing from you and would love too hear success/progress stories as well !!