Using dmsa will not seriously hurt you. I have been chelating for 11 months, not all that time with dmsa however. Andy Cutler is the dmsa god to a lot of people but the guy is not even a doctor. his advice contradicts the advice of hundreds perhaps thousands of real doctors with whole bunches more experience than himself who actually do real chelation. personally i don't consider cutler's routine to be real chelation. sorry sunshine, I admit. It is a 'form' of chelation only. Using just DMSA and expecting it to relieve you completely of mercury poisoning in a reasonable amount of time is not very pragmatic. It's simply an available route toward that effort, it;s sort of the cheap way out. Your NP probably knows of other options as well.

Getting your amalgams removed by someone who isn't real good at it is real dangerous, that's a fact.

I'd follow the directions of the NP, make sure you get some tests done by him on a regular basis to see where you are at.

removing that many amalgams will cost you several thousand dollars minimum. You will probably have to do a couple at atime only. the biological dentists are very expensive. If you can find a regular dentist that knows how to cut the amalgam and lift it out you can go that route too. I had one done that way by a regular dentist without any side effects. Do not let any dentist try to drill the thing down, that's the danger.

using prescription drugs while chelating may not be real helpful. perhaps your NP can help with that as well.

one thing I did that was real helpful was I visited a biological dentist just for electrical testing. they have these wire things that they clip to your tooth and can get a reading of the charge being emitted by the metal. i had one that was pretty much off the charts. When they hooked the wire thing to it I about flipped out of the chair, real weird. Anyway, i had that tooth pulled, it was an old molar with a huge filling, it was cracked up. But, removing that tooth made a huge difference to me. i still have 5 or 6 amalgams left and am doing quite well. Yes I chelate, but not according to the cutler protocol. I had a doctor start me off with it.