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by dataangel 1574 days ago
How did you determine you needed chelation to begin with? Did you get Mercury levels tested, and if so what made you think to do that in the first place?
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I didn't, originally, the doctor determined it after the lab tests came back, which included heavy metal tests. He said I'm in a gray area and he could justify starting chelation, but he thought that explained only some of my issues and I should have something else. He never found anything else and chelation had FAR more success than anticipated by either him or me.

I did have a hint before that: after a health escalation I suffered - visibly even (mouth) - from Candida. I even was prescribed, as I wrote, a systemic drug, which no doctor would ever subscribe for the "psyche" because that is serious stuff impacting the liver (and as I wrote, I got quite yellow after those two, or was it three?, weeks - but a lot of bowel issues and the feeling in my mouth were just gone). The problem: Candida has a deeper cause. It's immune compromised people. But there was nothing for me, and the only thing I found was heavy metals. So I went to a university clinic and got tested. Fortunately it showed up in the blood and urine tests, which is not a given if you have low-level long-term exposure and have most of the burden intracellular and/or stored away instead of moving around.