Hi Linda, like you I wished I had known this earlier too when I started chelation. Though the every 4 hour routine was a much safer bet, i still feel I pushed myself too much and I was on 50 mg.

I would feel very ill by about the 4th day. Certainly after twigging about splitting capsules it became easier and 25 mg was an ok dose for me at times.

For you, it maybe wise to start much lower as Dawn did. Monitor the symptoms. I would not expect things to go smoothly because moving mercury creates symptoms for the most part. Occassionally though some can feel better during a round, but most notice aggravation and detox symptoms.

It is not usually pleasant, but for me it was a better option than the random stuff I had been doing which caused insane symptoms! Frightening.

I hope you might battle on somehow. I can tell you the symptoms from DMSA chelation for me were general tiredness, achiness, feeling grotty, and sometimes feeling very ill if I had pushed myself to go on for too long with it (like over 4 days or something). The symptoms for me at the time it was mercury appeared to increase as the round went on. So at times the symptoms might show up within a few hours after the first dose, or not show up until the next day or even two days later. I could not predict when they would start and this is the way of mercury. It is just not predictable how you will feel on each round. Every round can differ from the next.