I definitely would prefer to know exactly what I have but yeah the costs really get up there especially with shipping outside of the US.
I was also scared of taking a mega dose so quickly into my confused newbie phase. Note that I since found a safer adaptation of the provoked urine test with spread out, lower doses in Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment - Andrew Hall Cutler p.178
That's the thing : I'm in a weird spot in life where I started an immigration project to Canada 8 month ago with a student permit, struggled so much to keep up with my program I had to drop out and re-evaluate my mental health, but on a budget because I might have to move out again soon.
Because I related to many of the symptoms, I made the investment up-front and bought chelators and supplements in bulk powder form, so as to keep costs to a minimum. (except DMSA and DMPS which are only available as pill bottles on livingsupplements.com) Dealing with powders is a puzzle but it has benefits.
Thank you so much for your help regarding starting protocol and doses
Do you supplement on and off round ? I think they suggest starting chelation like a month after getting on the Core 4, I imagine in part so you can register the effects of it seperatly, but I'm reluctant to the idea of taking pills all the time. They get very complicated with supplementation over at the ACC group.
Of course I'll be glad to find remedies for specific side effects once I have them but I would love to keep a simple process:
doing alternating rounds (with a progressive build up in dosage) of DMSA + ALA & DMPS + ALA
"start with one chelator" - Which one?
Here if you could suggest starting doses for each it would be great. here's what I noted in my common place book:
4 days on - 4 days off
DMSA : 30mg / Kg / day on a 3 hour reuptake schedule, so divided by 8 (you take 25mg per dose?)
OR DMPS : 200 - 500mg / day on a 6 hour reuptake schedule, so divided by 4
ALA : 25mg to 250mg every 3 hours
