Hi Dawn, it's a relief to hear from someone else who's been through this. When the anxiety gets high it's easy to get panicky.

I tried to get 25mg caps. They sent me the 100s, LOL. Oh well, since they charged me for the 25mgs I saved about £8.

I cut the last dose in half, took 12.5mg. I think if I'd been more aware of what happened with you, I would have done this from the start. I still feel a bit weird but it's not as bad as it was, and I'm not as irritable.

What really sent me into a flap earlier was some advice from the holistic health practitioner I work with online. I know she knows her stuff. After I described what I'd been doing, she said that if I didn't have mercury issues before, I've got them now because of getting the amalgams removed with no precautions, and stirring the mercury up with the chelation. She urged me to get professional help with that, and to get a test done. I'm not sure where to start -- maybe go to my GP and try to convince him to refer me for a test. I can't afford to pay a private doctor to help me with this. I'd just taken a dose of DMSA and felt panicky after I read this. I'm calmer now, but still worried that all I'm doing is making myself really sick.

She also said that tinnitus is a symptom of imbalanced kidney energy. Interesting. I wonder how one would go about re-balancing? I'm not exactly in a one-to-one relationship with this person so it's not as if I can ask her loads of questions, she's very busy with other people who are ill.

I feel rather alone and frightened. She said that removing amalgams, even with precautions, exposes a person to more mercury than keeping the fillings. Have I made a big mistake, I wonder.