Re: My experiense with mercury chelation
(Look at my comment history for some more details.)
3.5 years of chelation. DMPS and DMSA as infusions first every month, later every 2, then 3 months; after 1.5 years also ALA (infusions). I switched to DMSA capsules and Cutler. NOT because I think it is better, according to the doctors and also to my own experience nothing beats DMPS (s.c., i.m., i.v., infusion - 1-2 ampules into the body, not capsules) by a margin, it is simply the by far most effective chelator out there. I switched because DMPS was overkill, slow and steady Cutler to remove the tiny bit that still regularly made it into my body from where it was stored was better for me than one huge dose of DMPS and then nothing for 2 months.
Also, my (upper) jaw bones are (were) "mushy" - right where the
Amalgam fillings used to be, left and right side. It is very, very hard to see anything on x-ray, but when the doctor tried to inject something next to the jaw bone the needle went right into the bone. He injected DMPS there, several ampules over 1 year, half an ampule total (4 quadrants, upper and lower jaw, left and right side) every 2 months, and my body started doing strange (but good) things in my jaw bones. At each session it got harder for him to inject more, the bone structure seems to have repaired itself.
I DO eat A LOT of Chlorella, I didn't believe in that "esoteric BS" at all but I tried and over many experiments over a long time I found it definitely helped me a lot. BUT!!! I don't use "regular" Chlorella, the stuff I buy is expensive, it is grown in huge (miles long) glass tubes in Germany, so it is definitely free of contaminants like heavy metals that you may find in "outdoor Chlorella" from Asia (especially since countries like China have a heavy-metal problem even with their regular food, even say "The Economist", not exactly known as a "leftist, green, alarmist" news magazine. My source:
http://www.algomed.de/index.php?lang=eng
Success of the whole thing: PHENOMENAL. I wasn't sure whether or not to fully believe this mercury story, I did it not because I was convinced but because I had run out of options. After 1 year I was pretty sure, after 2 years I sopped reading anything on the Internet because it was all completely clear and I could learn nothing new from anyone. A lot of issues disappeared that I had had for decades, from regular cramps in various places to worsening eye sight and "RSI" (aka "mouse arm" - I blamed computer work, but now I do more than ever and have ZERO issues, same with the eyes), to white warts on the bottom of my left foot, which started with 1 or two 10-20 years ago and got more and more over time. They are all gone, every single one (after ~2 years of the DMPS infusions)! And lots more but this should suffice.
HOWEVER, the bad side of all of it: I'm a freelancer with no family and pretty good income. I was unable to work for many months. When I finally accepted another client I was able to do my job well enough, but my head was "in the clouds" for 50% of the time. I had to lie down a lot, and sleep for 15-30 minutes - not the kind of sleep you need when you are sleep-deprived (I wasn't!), it was more like a "timeout" in the middle of day that my brain needed to "reorganize" something, strange things went on. Also, 2 months end of last year when I was afraid my kidneys were getting hurt, lots of pain in that area, not a single night that I could sleep through during that time (I didn't work then). Fortunately, each time I was alarmed about the latest problems and my doctor checked it out, or send me to a specialist to check it out (here: nephrologist for a detailed check of my kidneys), it always turned out to be nothing, nephrologist too said "there is no problem" (and this is something that I believed them, rant about modern medicine's failures when it comes to heavy metals as much as you like, but they DO know how to recognize kidney disease).
So one needs LOTS of patience, time and MONEY. All the glass-tube indoor chlorella alone cost me something like 1500 Euros by now. And forget your social life during the first 2-3 years, and work will SUCK. I never watched so many movies in my life before (I don't even have a TV, but a computer and Internet), I couldn't do anything else for a long time, my brain was not really usable. Today my brain is fine, much better than it was before I started all of this (before I even knew I had problems, when I took all the little signs for normal signs of aging, nothing worth worrying about). I'm glad I did this.
But again: I mainly relied on chelators, everything else is "add-on". DMPS is what gets the job done, the rest is "support". Later definitely DMSA and also very definitely ALA.
When I got my first ALA infusion (i.e. there was MUCH more ALA inside of me than you'll ever get from capsules, the doctor says ALA is one of the drugs that are best used all at once in huge quantity for therapeutic effect) the bones under/around my nose area started to feel some sort of "pressure", and that's when that area started to be cleaned (many nose bleeds in the months after that, often that pressure feeling - those bones are only 1/2
inch from the "mushy" bones of my upper jaw so it was easy to see why/how they were involved).