Yep, I think The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. It ranks up with the best. As an English teacher I'm happy to give plenty of justification for this. I've made it through the Silmarillion too. This man invented an incredibly convincing and complex world.

Back to chelation, thanks for all this info from the other forum. I did actually start like you are, with 12.5mg DMSA. I couldn't cope with anything higher. As I gradually adjusted to that, I gradually increased the amount, 12.5mg at a time. After about 2 months I added ALA, again at 12.5mg, and worked my way up. Every time I increased a dose of either chelator my symptoms flared up, but they then settled down over two or three rounds as my body adjusted. When I was on 50mg of each not long ago, I wouldn't have known the difference between having chelators in my body, or not (apart from when the sleep problems started to recur if I was off chelation too long).

When I got Andy's book and he was giving such high ALA doses, I thought I'd have a go at increasing my own dose, and I went up to 75mg. Around that time I was also starting to get those glimpses of normality. It seems to me that maybe the ALA was having an effect there. I don't know. But I'm pretty comfortable with where I'm at so I'll just feel it out I think.

Normally I leave it 3 days between rounds. I was very concerned to have such a disrupted night of sleep, which is why I started chelating so soon again this time. I feel awful the next day when I get those sleep problems; I feel totally jet lagged. Unfortunately it seems to be sticking with me for now because I have been incredibly tired since 7pm tonight. That usually means I'll be wide awake by 3 or 4 am. My guess would be that the mercury is interfering with my body clock, or hormones that regulate it. The sleep trouble was one of the earliest symptoms I had. It disappeared with diet and supplements but was there again straight away when I had my amalgams out. The dark nights make it worse because sunlight helps to regulate the body clock.

Is this making sense . . . ? So tired (yawn).