In response to your last point Bex, I think I'm there. It feels like I'm in a race right now to chelate enough mercury to mitigate the effects of the increasingly dark days. I've been slowly losing; and when I take more than a few days off the chelation regime, I seem to quickly lose ground. Crazy isn't it. I'm hoping that if I can get rid of enough mercury to be able to sleep OK in the darkest months of the year, it will be plain sailing into the spring and summer.

What worries me is how the insomnia grabs me so quickly if I haven't chelated for a week or so, and then it seems to get better with the DMSA. Why would that be? It's almost as if the DMSA is keeping it at bay. I would have thought that if I stopped chelating for a while, I would stay at that "level" and not deteriorate, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't have caffeine, and the sugar is out of my body now so hopefully that will help. Last night my sleep was fitful but I actually managed to get some good long periods of it, and didn't come wide awake at 3 am. I had been knock-out tired at 5pm, wide awake at 10pm, had some trouble getting to sleep. This roller-coaster seems to change every day, and even at different times in the day. I felt pretty good this morning but after breakfast I felt tired and fogged, and this has continued. I don't think there's any way to really figure it all out; I'm inclined just to shrug my shoulders and get on with it.

You dealt with insomnia for years at a time?? My respect for you just keeps increasing. That sounds horrendous.