I don’t come here very often because I am better now, but I have been asked to reply to Birdlady on this thread. I have not read it all as it is very long and many questions have been asked. (If you have questions for me, then you may email me directly)

Update on my progress – 5th March 2011

I have been amalgam free for 3 years and 4 months now. I have done 61 Andy Cutler chelation rounds in total. I did 21 rounds in 2010. My rounds are @ 5mg’s ALA only, 3 day long each and I have chelated for a total of 178 days in the last 3 years.

My situation continues to get better and better and i consider myself back to normal now. I have no major symptoms remaining. I have no minor symptoms remaining now either. All my food intolerances have gone and I can eat any food I choose. My mind is back together in one piece, along with my memory. My body is free from aches and pains. Heart problems sorted out too.

Today I consider my health to be "pretty good" for a 41 year old. I am healthier than many of my “healthy” friends of a similar age. Life is 100pct back to normal, which is a far cry from 3-4 years ago when my world imploded with a multitude of mercury poisoning problems.

I am proud to tell you that recently I have managed to raise my chelator dose:
from 4mg's ALA, all the way up to 5mg's ALA….LOL. I am a low dose-er! The rounds are very easy and hassle free now. I sometimes get a little grumpy and tired after the round (for 1-3 hours) but its small-fry and not noticeable to the outside world.

I did try raising my dose up to 6.25mg's ALA – but that gave me pretty bad side-effects incl brain fog. That was my first nasty round in 1.5 years and the first brain fog for 2 years.

Those who remember me will know that I was big into herbs. I have had spectacular success with the herbs and I still continue to do the herbs all the time, rotating different sets of herbs to clean different parts of my body. I get no/mimimal side effects from the herbs and for the last 9 months I have been chelating and doing herbs at the same time with zero problems.

Chelation does throw up problems from time to time. Issues crop up and I must find solutions and that is the reason I continue doing the herbal cleanses even though I am better. I had a heart problem that took me 9 months to figure out, but I eventually found the solution to that and now my heart is perfectly fine and normal.

My thyroid is still fine and all healed up. I take no thyroid supplements anymore and have not done so for over 1 year.

My adrenals have recently completely healed up too. They where 80pct better with the herbs and the ACE, but after a combination of a 30 day bowel cleanse, together with a 30 day parasite cleanse, together with a 10 day liquid fast – they are now cured and I need no adrenal supplements. (That was in Jan 2011). Adrenals and thyroid support was a massive project to understand and cure. Took a lot of time and effort to sort everything out.

I am still colour blind but the colours keep coming back the more i chelate. I continue to totally love the experience of the colours returning, little by little, after each round. The rise to 5mg's ALA has accelerated the process, and is a sign that I still have mercury in me, and I still need to chelate.

I did my 5th Hair Test in July 2010 and for the first time my hair test met the counting rules: This refocused my chelation regime and reminded me that even though I am all better, that I still have mercury in me and I still need to chelate if I am to have a long healthy life.

I am still motivated to chelate, even though I am better. When I break from chelation I feel fantastic so I could easily stop right now, but, but, but….when I was sick, when the mercury hit me hard, I was very very sick and I never want to go back there again. So I will chelate as long as I can. It is very easy now anyway: I have no symptoms, chelation rounds cause me minimal/zero side effects.

I am very much on the home stretch. I am chelating for my future health now;-)

It’s worth just listing out all the problems I have solved so far:

Dairy allergy – gone
Wheat allergy – gone
Gluten allergy - gone
Soya allergy – gone
Nightshade allergy – gone
Passive smoking allergy – gone
All processed food allergy – gone
Sulphur food intolerance – gone
Fruit intolerance – gone
Sugar problem/hypoglycaemia – gone
Chronic heartburn – gone.
Constipated – gone
Bloating – gone
Dry skin – gone
Sleeping badly – gone
Libido – back to normal
Multiple chemical sensitivities – gone
Chronic back problems and chronic back pain for 10 years – gone.
Muscle weakness – gone. (This was an utter nightmare)
Short term memory problems – gone.
Brain fog – gone
Depression – gone
Tinnitus – gone
Angry – gone
Hypothyroidism – cured
Adrenal fatigue – cured
Chronic fatigue – cured
Fear of spiders – much reduced and no longer a problem.
Grumpy – mostly gone!

How did I do this? It was not luck. I worked my balls off to achieve this:

So far I have done 7 full body rounds with herbs. Moving around the body using different the sets of herbs to cleanse different parts of my body. Month after month, year after year, I am always doing some form of cleaning, be it chelation or one of the cleanses. Every week I am doing something to help myself without fail. To date it’s been 4 years. In that time I have gone from deaths door, to fit and healthy again.
In the last 4 years I have done the following:

Bowel cleanse x 7 = 7 months
Parasite cleanse x 7 = 7 months
Kidney cleanse x 10 = 7 months
Liver cleanse x 5 = 3 month
Liver flush x 10 = 10 weekends
Lung cleanse x 3 = 30 days
Candida cleanse x 2 = 60 days
Essiac Tea x 2 = 3 months
Castor oil packs for liver cleansing about x 75+ (I don’t keep count)
Detox baths with epsom salts about x 100+ (I don’t keep count)

Plus 3 years work on my thyroids
Plus 3 years work on my adrenals
Plus 60 chelation rounds.
Plus full environment detox
Plus lots of energy work (reiki, mediation, pranayama, yoga, Alexander Technique)
Plus my full time job
Plus my family

I still have mercury in me, chelation confirms that, but all the above has cleaned up the mess the mercury caused. And now I have no symptoms at all.

There is no short cut in this mercury game. Mercury does not work with short cuts. Mercury leaks out and poisons each and every part of your body. The leaked bits of mercury are very very small, and they go everywhere everywhere everywhere.

It takes a lot of time and effort to clear the mercury out.
It takes a lot of time and effort to clear up the mess the mercury caused.
These are two separate issues: The mercury & The mess.

Gently prodding the mercury with a stick every now and then just annoys it. It takes time & patience to gradually take it out. Some people need super low dosages of chelators because they are super toxic. I must be, because my chelator tolerance is so low…..but I still got better because of the multiple actions I took.

I was asked to come and sing the praises of Andy Culter chelation, and I do, wholeheartedly….but getting better is much more than just chelate chelate chelate. Getting better is about chelate, chelate, chelate …. and …. doing everything else you can find that helps…many many times over. And that’s what is so cool about Cutler: he explains that everything needs help, because everything inside had been poisoned. That understanding (which his books explain) is what drove me forward to try and do all the weird and wonderful things I did to get better.

Since I was asked to reply to Birdlady’s posts, I will make a few observations to the few posts that I read.

Why still on DMSA? ALA is what will cure you. DMSA is a minor sideshow compared to ALA. ALA is the real deal, numero-uno, kingpin of mercury chelation: ALA chelates your brain. You need to chelate with ALA in order to get better. DMSA(and DMPS) is taken to reduce side effects from ALA but DMSA stirs up yeasts/bacteria/parasites something terrible in some people. ALA rounds only are easier for some people. (it is for me)

If 25mg’s causes you too many side effects: then reduce the dose. I can’t expand/explain that to be any clearer because it is simple: if you have bad side effects from chelation, then you need to reduce the dose. You may also need to reduce the timings to shorter intervals. (but only change one thing at a time, so you know what causes what.)

It is not the dosage that is important. What is important is regular chelation at a dose that you can handle. I chelate at 5mg’s and I am all better now…but 6.25mg’s hits me hard. The dosage level is not a special competition to get to a specific super high level. The dosage is the dosage that suits you and your body. For me that’s 5mg’s. When you get near the end of chelation, when you are better, you can increase the chelation dose to a high level. But at the beginning super low doses are required by some people to move forward. There is no shame in having a low dose.

Good luck
Sunshine