Revisiting when to stop chelation with iv DTPA for GDD and other heavy metals.

stopping chelation

There are few treatments for diseases, where the individual (safely) can stop treatment. Most treatments, for cancer and infection for example, follow relatively strict guidelines, which may be not long enough for some, and too long for others.

I have written versions of this, but here is another one. THis is a response to a patient of mine, but also harkens to a post I sawew on Reddit, where someone was panicking because 6 weeks post chelation their symptoms were worse. Why can this occur - the answer is re-equilibration.

Here again is the advice:

What you read in my book, re-equilibration Flare starts at 3 weeks. The way to know if you have had sufficient chelation and should stop undergoing chelation, is the re-equilibration Flare starts mild at 3 weeks and hopefully starts decreasing at 3 months.

If Flare escalates from 3 weeks and becomes quite problematic it means that your system is not ready to stop chelation, you still have too much Gd in your system for your immune system to manage. The ultimate treatment then is the next chelation. To tell when you are ready to stop you can continue to test yourself with pausing for 2 to 3 months and see how you do. So what you are showing is that it is too soon to stop chelation. You should get the next scheduled chelation in a couple of weeks. In the meantime if Flare is very bad you can control it with methylprednisolone. See if 4 mg is sufficient. If not try to manage it with 8 mg, with 4 mg in morning and 4 mg in midafternoon.

So for everyone, pausing is the method to tell when you are ready to stop chelation. Re-equilibration always occurs and is the normal occurrence with successful chelation. When re-equilibration is mild and getting less severe then continue pausing.

If it seems that you are going well beyond my general recommendation of 5 chelations for each GBCA, then start managing increased immune reaction by taking a low risk immune modulating medication, Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) .

Richard Semelka,MD