When you used DMSA and ALA, what dose did you use? Many people make the biggest mistake over overestimating their body's capabilities in catching up to what these chelating agents are pulling out and end up overwhelmed and repoisoned and sicker long term. These agents are highly potent.

The fact your kidneys and liver were acting up, tells me you were overtaxing your organs of elimination and too much metal was being moved, which would have worsened the candida as well. And yeah, as you said, DMSA and ALA also can feed candida on top of that.

I have heard very good reports on ALA and bad reports, and the same with cilantro. It's too easy to get bad effects on all these chelating agents, natural or not and sometimes a person is so toxic, that whatever they use is going to produce a terrible reaction. Sometimes a person has to go through a lot of initial agony (even when they use very low dose) in order for the load to be lessened enough to where they no longer get such a terrible response and their body begins to breathe easier and begins to get a bit stronger from less of the poison.

Very sad that some have to go through hell in order to achieve detox. but this is in the extreme cases. They say you don't need a healing crisis? Bollocks, sometimes it's unavoidable when the level of toxicity is reached crisis point. What else can you expect? It's like a cup filled up too high and you stir it and it overflows. Until you do enough stirring to where you've lowered the liquid in the cup and stirring no longer causes it to overflow, you're going to have the overflow symptoms. It's NASTY, but sometimes initially unavoidable.

I'd be interested to hear what dose of cilantro you're taking and how you are taking it. If it's helping you, I would NOT stop, but am curious as to the method you're using.