Re: Made a mistake w/ALA and NAC - brain redistribution - help!

Thank you, Joe - for all the replies and supplement-related advice. I had Cutler's "Amalgam Illness" book Fed-exed to me overnight, and his diagnostic hair analysis manual is still on the way. I am on the mend in terms of the acute neurotoxic effects (the burning, inability to sleep) but 4 days out from the incident, I feel new symptoms that show more eerie damage to the CNS: more fatigue/exhaustion from doing very little (in the back, shoulders), sensitivity to light, and the most telling: a persistent metallic taste in the mouth. The nervous heart symptom passed; burning brain has passed. I have been sleeping reasonably with melatonin and taurine.

The only anxiety I have about doing Cutler's protocol alone is not having contingency plans if something goes very wrong. I know to start with DMSA only and then add ALA for the brain 3 months in. But the ND I'm talking with right now - who is more open minded than most doctors at all - still wants me to do a challenge test using DMPS.

Considering how many horror stories I've read on dmpsbackfire.com, I am currently trying to persuade him to forego DMPS and instead do a hair analysis test via Cutler... at the very least, a short-term DMPS test using 50 mg and seeing if I tolerate it without reporting side effects for 14 days. Then doing a 3-day stint of DMPS every 8 hours with urine collection on the third day. He seems a little irked by the suggestion and keeps preaching that he's "done IV chelation for 40 years and has never had a patient report a problem." That seems dubious to me (really, NO problems in 40 whole years?), but I would rather have a doctor who is at least willing to try Cutler's method. He knows Cutler has the reputation and authority of expertise on the subject. He's saying I need to find some research on the possible drawbacks of doing oral chelation because I "might have a biased view."

Dosing with:
-selenium
-zinc
-vitamin C
-carnitine
-milk thistle
-multivitamin (with no chelators)
-B complexes
-melatonin
-taurine
-magnesium citrate
-potassium citrate
Will any of these help with energy and fatigue?


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