Conversations with patients that may have broad application to many people. Doing quite well with GDD, 5 DTPA chelations, considerations to continue.
11 hours ago
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I receive many questions from many people all over the world. Ofcourse a number are already patients of mine. I do post questions and answers especially when I have gone into detail and when I think this is a question and answer that applies to a large number of people. This is exactly that scenario.
The way I see the picture is this:
1. thankfully your severity of GDD was never debilitating, and with the amount of chelation you have had you are doing quite well, and a lot of Gd has already been taken out of your system.
2. therefore you have a lot more flexibility than most people have.
3. your re-equilibration Flare informs us if it is mandatory that you return to chelation. If after 3 weeks since last chelation and creeping up to 3 months it feels to you that you are almost as bad as when you first got GDD then you do need to return to chelation. The good news is that now a lot of Gd has returned to sites where DTPA is very able to remove it.
4. generally all things to do with Gd are influenced by processes that affect your immune system, so generally if it can be done, avoiding all Gd motion (which is chelation) is probably wise as your immune system is much more likely to react to Gd, because baseline it is dysregulated. This especially, and mainly applies, to people who are scheduled to get a GBCA administration. Since you have GDD you know you never should get a GBCA injection again. If a person has severe infection with high dose and aggressive antibiotics it would be wise to delay chelation until you are relatively recovered.
5. You are not in the situation though of severe infection and high potency antibiotics, so the adverse effects if they occur would be much less severe, but they may still occur.
6. Since you have HOPO this may be the time to try it, and yes waiting till after antibiotic use is probably wise, especially as you should also take oral steroids with and shortly after taking HOPO.
7. In the end, in your particular circumstance you have a great deal of flexibility and basically none of the above options is clearly bad, and all reasonable. You are in the best situation to decide, since you are the only one who knows exactly how you feel.
Richard Semelka, MD
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