G. - DMSA dosage

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I seem to recall you are one of those people who has been able

to increase dosage fairly quickly. I think I am one, too. I

did have a lot of symptoms in the beginning, but after adrenal

support and neutrophil support, I seem to have virtually no

problems on rounds. I just feel better than usual. And no

off-round problems, either. I increased my DMSA dosage from

50 to 60 mg this round and I feel fine.

I am curious to know how quickly you increased. I am thinking

of going straight to 75 mg.

Also, I think you are doing more than 1/2 mg per pound, aren't

you? I am tempted to aim higher, too. Are you doing as much as

1 mg per pound?

I have increased my ALA from 8 to 17 mg and seem to be fine.

ALA caused a lot of trouble for me to begin with (too much

emotional stimulation and frequent urination). This has

diminished over the past month or two.

I believe I also have a lot of lead. In fact, I had lead exposure

during the same time periods when I had dental mercury exposure.

I went through a significant period of more mercury-like symptoms

several years ago, and I wonder if I actually detoxed some

mercury on my own, but held onto the lead. Pure speculation, of

course.

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> My chelation doctor has been doing this for a long time and has

observed patients over long-term chelation. I know we have stated

here over and over that the urine tests are useless to track mercury

chelation, but I just would like to address something that came up the

other day. I had another urine test in which I collected my urine

over a 24 hour period during my fourth day of chelation with DMSA and

ALA. Great Smokies did the post challenge test. I came out showing

no measurable mercury excreted. I've been chelating for nine months

now and this is the 3rd urine test they've done on me. The first one

showed high mercury excretion. The second one showed none and this

third one showed none. However, each one of them showed high lead

excretion. So l got my results yesterday and my doctor said that they

see this over and over again, that DMSA will pull lead first and

they've had patients who don't even START to pull mercury for a year

or so. Is this true? Could I be chelating for nine months doing

Andy's protocol and only be pulling lead and no mercury? I could

understand if I were just taking DMSA and it was pulling lead first,

but what about the ALA I'm taking? Shouldn't that be pulling some

mercury out of my brain?

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> TK: I know that if you see this post, you might be thinking that

these urine tests are useless, but even in " Amalgam Illness " Andy says

" continue chelation until mercury urine excretion is low " . So they

must have some validity if he says that.

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