epistemologicus: do you think that if you had remained with your starting dose of 12.5 mg of dmsa and low dose ala that you may have avoided the detox side effects you are expierencing on your last round ? the reason I ask is that if my body one day lets me use dmsa and I startout with a low dose and remain with a low dose throughout the the whole detox process I might be able to avoid some of these problems ,i don't care how long it takes to get the mercury out as long as I feel halfway decent during the process ,what I have noticed from reading some of the posts in this forum and in general is that when most people start out on low dose dmsa they do pretty good untill they start to up the dose ,then they start to have problems