crash course log of my experience with chelating with mercury in mind.

**This is a very personal and candid entry. I am not looking for "good jobs" or props or anything like that. It is simply an info dump so that others may be helped by it and also as a primer/background, to back up other threads I may create, looking for specific info.***

Way back in 2007, I started to feel different after sex/sexual activity. to be specific, after achieving ogasm. Different, In a bad way.
However, at first, it wasn't major. Just a subtle badness. Kinda like the disconnected and hollow feeling you get, after a certain amount of sleep deprivation. and I would be indefinitely cold, for a few hours. I would also sometimes have aches, which felt similar to growing pains, if you have ever experienced that. If you haven't, then maybe like shin splints at a 40% intensity or something. but not just in your shins. If I had a full night's sleep or a meaningful nap, I would then feel fine.


At the time, I was 21. I figured "ok, maybe i'm going through some changes. Maybe this is just the way it will be from now on. I've never had some of the classic problems associated with men and sex (super sleepy after ogasm, long refractory periods, emotional detachment, etc)."

but it slowly got worse. 8 - 12 months later, it was awful. After sexual activity and specifically, ogasm: I felt like I had been poisoned. but I was still trying to write it off, mentally. Trying to rationalize a reason for it and trying to mitigate it with all sorts of supplements. I lessened the frequency of sexual activity (masturbation or actual sex) tried to sleep more. Hoping for relief. I knocked stimulants out of my diet, completely. I'd been taking a high caffiene pre-workout booster, about twice a week. got rid of that. I started taking supplements which where supposed to help my body deal with stress, relax, etc.

Nothing really worked.

About 15 minutes after ogasm, when I started to come down off the adrenaline, dopamine, oxycotin, and other things which your body natural puts out: I would feel like I had been poisoned. chronic nerve twitching in virtually every large muscle. aches all over. Lethargy. Physical weakness (lifts in gym which I could normally do 3 sets of, I might be able to squeeze out 2 sets. Maybe.). Any non-trivial injury I had ever had, would ache and remind me of it's location. Major brain fog and inability to focus. I felt like I was constantly missing a millisecond here or there. Like my life was a skipping CD. eyelid twitching. etc.

These and some other effects, would last in a major way, for 24 - 48 hours. but it would really take me about 5 days to a week, to feel like I had "fully" recovered. Although over time, I began to feel like I was always losing a little piece, which I might never get back.

I also began to have chronic issues with my muscles not properly relaxing and extending into their normal positions. If I didn't stretch after exercise, I would bind up like a closing fist. But even if I do stretch, it only helps to lessen that effect. Its a constant battle. I started to developed trigger points/acute knots that would noticeably limit my strength and flexibility, until they were properly released (acupuncture).
My eye lashes would fall out a lot. I would get a lash in my eyes 2 or more times, every day. for years. I could also basically count on waking up with lashes in my eyes.
For the first two years, I had a chronic twitch in my right eye lid.

So again, this started mid 2007. By late 2008, I couldn't suppress it anymore. I finally told my primary care doctor and secondary doctor, about it. They wrote it off as nothing. "you're young, don't worry about it." "it's within normal range, to have various bad effects after sex". "you need to relax. You are probably just activating your sympathetic nerve system too much". "it's all in your head". etc.

these are some of the things they told me, after I visited them MANY times and eventually BEGGED them to help me. Other than acupuncture for my trigger points (which helps a lot, with that, specifically) I never got any help.

by 2010, i had learned to mentally compartmentalize my problems and was able to co-exist with it. It was certainly causing me some low level depression. But my head space was able to deal with it. I separated from the Military and moved to San Francisco.

While in San Francisco, new symptoms arose. the nerve twitching escalated. I started to have nerve circulation issues in my legs, which kept me from comfortably sitting, for long. Unless the chair was "perfect".

I started having soft tissue issues, which resulted in random ankle sprains while walking across college campus. Hip area sprains. Inner thigh/groin sprains. thumb sprains. One time, both of my MCL's felt injured up, for like two months. I would sometimes have the sudden sensation that my hips had dislocated (although recognize it may have actually been something else) and would have to physically push it back into place. Usually by relaxing muscles, while slamming into a counter top, while pushing with my hands.

I moved to Seattle, and things changed again. the soft tissue and sprains astuff, seemed to disappear. waking up with random problems, seemed to go away. I got some strength back. I sort of went back to the initial stages of having brain fog and just feeling like poisoned junk, for a day or two.

but I did have a major nerve episode, about 3 months into my stay in Seattle. I had near constant pins and needles in my neck, upper shoulders, and base of my head, for daaaaays. It got worse if I layed down. I was afraid to go to sleep, fearing I would wake up with permanent nerve damage. doctors did nothing except give me muscle relaxors, saying I had muscle spasms, but no reason for why I had muscle spasms which were squeezing off my nerves. The relaxors just made me feel like I had railed 3 shots of alchohol. didn't actually relieve the problems.

I asked for accupuncture, but several people said that the Seattle VA didn't offer it. So I had to resort to relaxation techniques and micro stretching/over stretching techniques that I had learned, to relieve stuff. It worked, but it's not very good for you. Months later, after I asked the 12th person or so, I would find out that they actually did have Acupuncture all along....

Once that was relatively cleared up------yeah, some problems went away and I was kind of able to co-exist with it, again. I also felt like certain supplements helped me to mitigate some problems a bit. I was tired with doctors. So I just did what I could, for a couple of years.

Mid-2012 I became conscious of the fact that I was having a hard time maintaining a full erection during sex. So I started favoring downward positions.

end of 2012, I started getting some of the soft tissue problems and random injuries, again. I moved from Seattle, back to my home town.

Summer 2013, my shoulders seized up, inflamed, for about 12 days. Excruciating pain. extremely limited mobility. My right shoulder never fully recovered. the front rotator is impinged and weakened. That shoulder had already been injured in 2008. I started to have randomn heart palpitations and even had a few randomn panic attacks. Like, I'm walking to the bus, listening to headphones, and suddenly my fight/flight response is activated and my heart is sputtering.

Beginning of 2014, I had a sudden turn for the worse. Chronic nerve circulation issues all over the place. I couldn't sit in any chair, for more than a couple of minutes. without discomfort and eventually needing to stand. I couldn't wear glasses for more than a few minutes at a time, unless I had padding between my head and the ear pieces. (I would play videogames with a knitted hat pulled down). Laying in bed would cut off circulation to the back of my head and neck. My right ear in particular, would go numb. Especially deep into the canal. Can't wear headphones of any kind. Post ogasm effects were strong as ever and I could basically count on waking up with a sprain or some sort of soft tissue injury.

I was in really bad shape. could not manage it. finally went back to the VA. Again, in summer 2014, zero help. A Neurologist said there was nothing wrong with me, as far as Neurology is concerned and even tried to tell me that my twitching and circulation issues were observeable in 1/3 of Neurology students.

ok.......If this were THAT common, I'd have heard of someone ever, complaining about this stuff. Let alone multiple people complaining.

Over the years, I've thought maybe I have pre-diabetes or some rare form of actual diabetes. Maybe I have Lyme disease. Maybe I have some kind of schlerosis. Maybe this, maybe that. No tests ever concerned doctors.

eventually I read about mercury and the dots start to connect. Remember, sometime in 2007, was when I first started to feel the first symptoms? Well it turns out, January or February 2007, I got my first ever filling. An Amalgam filling, installed by the Air Force. So, there was my mercury exposure. Not to mention possible thimerosol or similar, in the slew of shots which you receive at basic training. Which I did in 2006.

I got the filling removed by an appropriate dentist, in January 2015.

The first month of treatment (February 2015), was DMSA. I felt localized action in my shoulders and some key, lon injured areas. in bs area, outer groin, and some randomn shots around my body, here and there. I could also feel my kydneys stress, if I dose too highly. and I could feel when I was urinating out bad stuff. I have 250mg DMSA caps, which I split into 7 doses. If I do someting like an extra half a dose a couple of times, it will stress my kidneys and my nerves.

After that first month, I started fall asleep more easily than I had, in years.

I started R-ALA the next month, along with the DMSA, I got way more benefit. In 2 or 3 doses, it seemed like I had gotten more percievable action and benefit, than the entire month on DMSA. There was a strong uptick in the random shots of action. and for the first 3 cycles, I had major action deep into my groin area. I would posit that my prostate and the muscles which control my urethra, and the pelvic floor muscles, were being cleared. As I became very aware of those things and actually, the way I urinate is different, now, because of it. Much more relaxed and gravity based. Less force and contraction of muscles.

I hadn't had morning erections, for 2 or 3 years. I mean never. Not one time. After the first 3 or so cycles of chelating action in my Groin area----since then I have had morning erections about 5 days per week. and my erections during sexual activity, are much stronger and just feel more positive. I had zero idea this would happen and it was early confirmation I was doing something right. Was not experiencing placebo.

I had lots of trouble falling asleep, for years. 30 minutes - 2 hours, it would take me. I can now fall asleep much more easily and seem to get better quality sleep, overall. Although I do not sleep as long, all total.

My nerve circulation issues have improved a lot. I can sit now, fairly normally. I can wear my glasses---although the right side still has tenderness issues.

No more soft tissue sprains.

certain areas which just felt bound up, inhibited, congested---have released and cleared up. My front right rotator cuff, as an example. I thought that would be a permanent injury.

I had major action up and down the sides of my spine, which have given me a range of benefits, out into my appendages.

An acute spot on my neck cleared up. again, I had thought that spot would be bad, forever. when it first happened two years ago, it was an intense burning pain. It is not 100% and may never be, but has improved a whole lot, with chelation.

certain areas in my upper back/mid-back and up into my shoulders started to clear. the specifics of which made me pretty hopeful about my recovery, another 6 months from now.

my overall strength got a lot better.

recovery from exercise got a bit better.

My testosterone production and utilization seems to be much better. i have more facial and body hair and it grows more quickly. (albeit some of that speed may be from a diet more rich in hair promoting vitamins and minerals).

After months of chelation, I have cleared enough mercury that I can finally have sex and feel pretty much "normal' afterward. I cannot express how nice it is to be positive about sex, again.

I have had a lot of improvement and recently actually feel some positivity. the overall benefits have been meaningful to my life. Not just little improvements, here or there. It has been a tough journey. Hopefully the simple mention of this stuff, may help someone. I am happy to expand on specifics.