Hi Linda, thanks a lot for the kind compliments, could apply them to you also!

I think you could start another round tommorrow if you wanted to. It may help stabilise some of what the ALA did. I wonder whether personally that you still have a little too much mercury in the tissues/blood ? That might be why ALA on its own needs the aid of DMSA to help at this point. To be honest, i found ALA with DMSA much better. I had problems on ALA alone, but I think that was because I had too much metals floating around still and needed the stability of DMSA.

I still feel you may well have a mercury problem. Reason I say that is, it's interesting that your symptoms worsened when you first tried DMSA on a too high a dose for you. Usually when you get an exacerbation of symptoms like that with a chelator, that's pretty evident.

As Andy said, ALA unfortunately usually causes a feeling of going back to how you "were" and your old symptoms return. So you feel like not only are you not getting anywhere, but you're regressing. Some people can be the opposite and feel better ON ALA, but this is not the case for others. It can really get you down apparently.

I hope that another round or so will improve the symptoms from the last one. I just wish DMSA was not as expensive! You know there are people who have been cured by DMSA alone and never even used ALA, so it is possible.