Similar to Dawn, I am 15 months post amalgam removal, and there is no doubt that I am better. I have lost a lot of symptoms like angina, totally shot female hormones, thyroid and adrenals are pretty much balanced. I hate to think how sick I would have been had I not removed my amalgams - my body had already ground to a halt.

I am doing DMSA at 12.5mg and I have a different round each time. Sometimes I feel good on round, and get horrid redistribution symptoms afterwards (hungover, yeast flare, irritability). Other times I get full-on symptoms on round (yeast, excessive salivation, metal taste, pounding heart, irritability, extreme fatigue) and feel good after the round. Why is each round so different?

The mercury mobilization symptoms seem to be getting more extreme - possibly as I get rid of more mercury, my body finds it possible to shed more during the DMSA rounds . If this is the case it is great, but it makes me feel that I am not making any progress at all, and when is it going to end?!! I feel as bad now as I did after amalgam removal, just not all the time, but still pretty frequently. I have been pretty much debilitated today (day 2 of DMSA round), despite usual thyroid dose / adrenal support / diet, so it must be the mercury. It is quite depressing to think that this could go on for years.

Dawn - those symptoms are low thyroid - the band around the head and air hunger. I have dropped my Armour dose to 1 grain and added in some T3. This is working really well for me and has taken away some other symptoms. My thinking is that mercury toxic people don't convert T4 to T3 properly, and there is too much T4 in Armour for us to benefit properly from it. Dropping the amount of T4 and increasing T3 helps this problem.

I haven't added in ALA yet - I am sure my body burden is too high. I am also waiting to get on with life - three young kids, and my own things I want to do. This illness has taken too long already.

PM me if you want to. Think we've got lots in common.

Nicola