Re: Redistribution questions

November 13, 2006

I get worse when I stop a round. I got tired of feeling great for a few days

and then feeling bad again. I'm now on day 19 of continuous chelation. I take

lots of zinc lozenges and also sauna's to sweat out copper. I know that I have

a copper problem because I have the symptoms according to what I've read. I

have done no testing to confirm it. So far opposing copper with zinc and doing

sweating is working. Unless my body tells me to stop I will keep going.

Redistribution questions

Yes, I think that the dumping of Hg will go on for some time.

I am expecting to chelate for much longer than 26 months.

My experience confirms what Andy has stated in the post below -

" Also note that if you stop chelating you will get MUCH worse -

chelation is what is keeping that from happening. "

I do get MUCH worse every time I stop chelating.

I think that it is best to take the mercury out fairly slowly to

minimize the damage that it does on the way out.

I hope that Andy will respond to your post. Please don't be

disappointed if he doesn't. He hasn't answered many posts lately.

J

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I just need clarification on the above post. I understand about

redistribution. Perhaps I'm misreading this, but it sounds like if

you start chelating for awhile and then stop, you will get worse -

not level off. The implication is that chelation starts the process

of mercury detox and stopping too soon can be dangerous - not just

temporary redistribution.

thanks,

Val

November 14, 2006

Hi Val,

I moved your post to the top, mine to the bottom....

>

> I just need clarification on the above post. I understand about

> redistribution. Perhaps I'm misreading this, but it sounds like if

> you start chelating for awhile and then stop, you will get worse -

> not level off.

Remember what Andy said about three months after amalgam removal the

body will start to dump mercury and the person's symptoms will worsen.

This is exactly what happened with me (without any chelation, I

couldn't figure it out at the time).

It's like the mercury itself interferes with the process of

detoxification. So once a person has reached a certain point in

toxicity their body can't remove mercury and other metals in the same

way as a non toxic person can. When the source of daily mercury

exposure (amalgams) is removed then the body processes start to work a

little bit again. This happens right after amalgam removal and it

will continue to happen during recovery/chelation.

By holding on to the moving metals chelation prevents those metals

from redistributing and making symptoms worse.

> The implication is that chelation starts the process

> of mercury detox

That sounds like how I understand it. As chelation removes more

metals the normal detoxification processes will start working better.....

> and stopping too soon can be dangerous -

The way I see it, stopping chelation will give a taste of how severe

the symptoms would have been without any chelation at all.

There is no way that I can say for sure what I would be like without

chelation but my guess is that I would be in a wheel chair by now or

worse. With chelation (and some drugs) I am functional.

I know I'm not explaining this very well.....

When following the salt/C forums remember that there is the added

factor of the various treatments people are using for lyme (I'm not

sure what all they are using). For one thing, if sodium levels get

high enough that's dangerous too. And once sodium levels get high

it's not easy to bring them down. Check symptoms of high sodium and

see if those are the symptoms that people are reporting. My GP

refused to prescribe salt pills for me for that reason and after I

thought about it for a while I decided he was/is right. It is better

for me to add the amount of salt my body wants and that I can

determine by taste.

J

> not just

> temporary redistribution.

>

> thanks,

> Val

>

> Yes, I think that the dumping of Hg will go on for some time.

>

> I am expecting to chelate for much longer than 26 months.

>

> My experience confirms what Andy has stated in the post below -

> " Also note that if you stop chelating you will get MUCH worse -

> chelation is what is keeping that from happening. "

>

> I do get MUCH worse every time I stop chelating.

>

> I think that it is best to take the mercury out fairly slowly to

> minimize the damage that it does on the way out.

>

> I hope that Andy will respond to your post. Please don't be

> disappointed if he doesn't. He hasn't answered many posts lately.

>

> J

>

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November 14, 2006