Re: Dave----how many rounds of ALA?

[Guest guest]

Ah - not quite sure. I've done 79 rounds all together - DMSA and ALA.

It's about half and half. Average length of round, 6.5 days, but that's

because my DMSA rounds are a lot shorter (5 days, used to be 3).

Dave.

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Posted by: " letsdetox " letsdetox@...

Sun May 11, 2008 7:17 am (PDT)

Dave, how many rounds with LA have you done?

[Guest guest]

Dave, so you are doing ALA alone now?---------Jackie

In frequent-dose-chelation Dave - AM & FDC Posts wrote:

Ah - not quite sure. I've done 79 rounds all together - DMSA and ALA.

It's about half and half. Average length of round, 6.5 days, but that's

because my DMSA rounds are a lot shorter (5 days, used to be 3).

Dave.

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Posted by: " letsdetox " letsdetox@...

Sun May 11, 2008 7:17 am (PDT)

Dave, how many rounds with LA have you done?

[Guest guest]

No not really. I was just curious

You said you had psychiatric symptoms when you started chelation.

Did this appear when you started using chelating agents and/or removed

amalgams or before that?

May i ask you what psychiatric stuff you had?

[Guest guest]

Yes. Well, I've been ADHD all my life (thought I only figured that out

when my neuropsych prof started describing ADHD, and I went " Hey, that's

me " ! Then, after getting all of my filling out without too much in

the way of proper protection (no one knew what they were doing back in

1988), I started to get really, really aggressive. I also began to get

withdrawn. I had no idea what people were doing and why. I would hide

in my office. People were trying to offer me academic jobs, but I just

.... couldn't understand that they were trying to be nice....

It took years (early 2000's) before I collapsed into chronic fatigue,

FM, TMJ - the works. When that happened, I started to become what a

psychologist would term, " internally preoccupied " . I could sense things

about people, what their emotional state was, what there internal

fantasies were. Sometimes, I could even hear what they were thinking.

I would just close my eyes, or kind of withdraw internally, and I could

hear it. All that is what's called " mercurial erethism " , but that

sensing of flowing energies, loss of boundaries, preoccupation with

internal states - that's entering the world of psychosis. There was

also some paranoia - that's a product of the stimulation of the

amygdala, a part of the brain associated with the perception of fear and

threat and which is a mercury target.

Well, I don't know where the courage came from, but after a couple of

years of this, I woke up and day, while talking to my therapist, and

said (I admit panic at the time), " I am really, _really_ sick! "

I knew right away what it was. I had looked into chelation back in

1988, but no one knew what the were doing. It all seemed just too

crazy, so I decided to do nothing. I remember thinking to myself at the

time, " Oh well, at 25 years half life, I'll probably live two more - so

the brain mercury will be down to 1/4 of what it is now, by the time I

die. " I don't know how - god's grace, maybe? When I started reading on

the web, one day I found a mention of Andy by a patient on DrStollMD's

site. The first page of Andy's book listed all the things people were

doing back in the late 80's and said, " Don't do these. " With that, I

knew I was on the right track.

Oh, and when I started chelating (end of 2004), I found that if I went

on too long, ALA would provoke severe paranoia, truly terrifying. At

first those symptoms began to appear at 9 days into a round. Later it

was 12 and now I do 15 regularly without a problem.

Well, I got a little off track with this email! Perhaps I'm still a bit

tangential.

Dave.

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Tue May 13, 2008 5:43 am (PDT)

No not really. I was just curious

You said you had psychiatric symptoms when you started chelation.

Did this appear when you started using chelating agents and/or removed

amalgams or before that?

May i ask you what psychiatric stuff you had?