Posted by Sigismund on May 27, 2009, at 3:03:50
There's nothing alternative about this but at least the thread will last here.
I had a hair test done some time ago which suggested my mercury levels were 5 times above some upper limit.
I then had a DMPS challenge test where you give a urine specimen before, and for 24 hours after, an IV dose of DMPS (which, I am told, is similar to DMSA).
(Interestingly, I felt quite good after IV DMPS, almost chatty, though that may conceivably have given way to worse feelings.)
This confirmed the hair test almost exactly.
The urine test pre IV DMPS was, as expected, negative for mercury.
Creatinine was measured as a general test of kidney function to ensure that the result is as valid as it looks, so I don't include that.
The relevant bits read (with the 'acceptable' levels bracketed)....
U-Mercury Excr............800 nmol/d (0-75)
U-Mercury/Creat...........51 nmol/d (0-6)The doctor said that I was poisoned (more or less) and that it wasn't my fault (which was very nice to hear), and that this was the highest level he had seen in a practice that concentrates on this sort of thing.
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