HI Sunshine,

In the book, Andy recommends one week on and one week off for DMSA. 50 - 100 mg. We know that for those just starting out, or those very very toxic, sometimes they have to start as low as 6 mg and may only cope with a couple of days or so.

If you are this far into chelation, you may wish to try it the way he suggested in the book and see what happens. A higher dose and a longer time. Maybe not too much of a jump at first. See what happens with a higher dose and a longer chelating period before using ALA. You might want to try 12 mg instead of 6 mg. But again, you seem still to be getting effects from this alone....you maybe 3 months post amalgam removal, but you may need to do more DMSA chelation regardless.

If you are still getting enough symptoms on this alone? You may not be ready for ALA. Still some people bring it onboard anyway. But I always feel that if DMSA is producing enough symptoms, then there is still more than enough mercury being chelated by it.

I used to do one week on, one week off (50 mg). It was very tough for me and often I had to stop. symptoms actually would start around the 3rd or 4th day often and they'd increase to by the end of the week I'd feel horrible. And then I'd have a week off again or more if needed to recover. Depends on whether you feel better on or off rounds too. Some hate going off chelation, they feel better when they take it. It went both ways for me, I never knew how I'd feel.

I did not know then that I could have lowered my dose and shortened the round to make things more tolerable. Andy has since recognised how important this is for many of us and one size does not fit all.