Pauses between chelation sessions, once reaching a certain milestone. For few other diseases, self-directed stoppage or continuation is the optimal treatment. For GDD and heavy metal chelations ideal.
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This is a recent email exchange that I have just had with a patient. Unlike treatment for essentially everything else, treatment duration is self-guided by the sufferer themselves. This is based on their appreciation of re-equilibration Flare. This is not used for infection or cancer where treatment generally involves a set regimen of duration. The reason is that Gd is not a replicating forein invader, so unlike infection, if you stop too soon, you may crreate the environment for an antibiotic- resistent superinfection, stopping too soon with properly performed chelation, just means you have to start back up, with actually the bonus that more Gd has mover to soft tissues where more of it can be removed. This is also true for other heavy metals, with the small caveat that many of them at least a msall level of continued intake continues to occur, for example with lead.
Long lead in to the email exchange:
with 2 Dotarem injections, it is a little more unpredictable. That is why setting as a goal 10 chelations, and then doing 3 month pauses is probably the ideal path. During the 3 months more Gd re-equilibrates back to where we can get it as well.
Re-equilibration always starts around week 3, maybe quite often, even if a person has received adequate chelation it stays at the same level or increases slightly to 3 months. At 3 months it trifurcates> 1. getting worse -so treatment is return to chelation,, 2. remaining stable, if manageable continue to wait, 3. getting better - maybe you are done with chelation. RIght now it seems you are in the middle category. Maybe skip this chelation. If Flare gets much worse, don't panic, just come back for the next chelation. Generally a person needs 3 chelation sessions to control a significantly worsening re-equilibration Flare from 1-3 months.
Richard Semelka, MD