10-month chelation results & request for advice

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Dr. JM & Listmates: My 4 yr old son has been chelating with TD-DMPS

since Feb 2005. Last month, we did our urine & fecal toxic metals

tests. For background, he had been diagnosed with Asperger's last

January, right before starting chelation. We started with 1 drops of

TD-DMPS, and went up very slowly, reaching 20 drops (close to full

dose for his weight) only this past October. Anyway, we had seen

elevated (yellow & red) mercury and lead in both urine & fecal from

the beginning (we started urine/fecal testing 1 mo into chelation).

Here are the results from previous tests & from this past test.

Format below::: (reference) 1 mo / 4 mo / 6 mo / 10 mo

URINE MERCURY::: (<5) 9.3 / 6.4 / 7.8 / 1.6

URINE LEAD::: (<5) 4.3 / 3.3 / dl / dl

FECAL MERCURY::: (<.05) .029 / .017 / .046 / .008

FECAL LEAD::: (<.50) .54 / .64 / 1.07 / .72

I just reported on the lead & mercury, but the trends with other

metals have been similar. Lots of things in yellow/red in both urine

& fecal earlier on, but most metals are <dl (not detectable) or just

blips in green. The only exceptions are fecal lead (yellow) and

fecal platinum (red).

Behaviorally, he's done great. He's been diagnosed as no longer

being on the spectrum, although I still see quirky, ADHD-like

behavior and am still working hard toward full recovery.

I'll be talking to his DAN dr about what to do going forward, but now

that we're approaching the 1-yr mark with TD-DMPS, I'm starting to

wonder what to do about chelation. He's done great with DMPS, so I

haven't considered switching to anything else, but it seems like

mercury has really gone up and then come down during the last year.

I remember people saying (although I didn't pay attention at the

time, since it seemed so unattainable at that point) that when you

have lots of mercury come out and then come down alot, that's a good

sign that you can stop. Of course, I remember Buttar saying that for

the patients for whom this " dip " happened, they had mercury in the

red, off the charts, which we've never had. Since we're still seeing

good amounts of lead, I'm tempted to switch over to TD-DMSA and see

what we get with that.

I would LOVE any thoughts regarding what I should do. In

particular, for those of you with recovered kids or kids who are done

chelating, could you share with me when/why you decided you were

done? How did you know it was time to stop chelating? Mind you, I

don't think I'm going to stop chelating altogether, as we're just now

starting EDTA suppositories this week. But I'm considering stopping

TD-DMPS, and I didn't think I'd be at this point for another year or

so. Am I right to consider switching to TD-DMSA?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks again,

Angie