Hi Rogert, either you are reacting with something in ALA, or you may very well have a high burden of brain mercury. If you had high body burden (which wouldn't make much sense after all this time), then you would notice symptoms with DMSA. I no longer notice a thing with DMSA, yet I suspect I have mercury in the brain. I have not yet tried ALA to find this out.

What kinds of symptoms do you get? And do you use DMSA with the ALA? If not, you might want to do that to help with any side effects (if in fact this is caused by mercury). Do you get an increase in mercury type symptoms?

Is a kind of detox reaction? That is an extremely tiny dose, but some people with high brain mercury can have that. Difference with DMSA and ALA is, you won't usually get any kind of aid with symptoms. DMSA "can" sometimes actually help with symptoms, although other times you can feel detox ones also. ALA does not tend to suppress any symptoms, which is why people find it difficult if they have a mercury problem.