Hi Susan. Amalgam Illness was written in 1999, since then many people have used the protocol and many (most) people need to start at much lower doses and gradually work the dose up.

Generally starting dose is now recommended @ 12.5mg every 4 hours, which is 75mg DMSA per day.

You are dosing 25mg every 3 hours and thats 200mg per day. Big difference there. You are on a big dose and moving too much mercury for your body to handle.

Dosing more frequently at 3 hours, as you are doing, is totally fine. More frequent dosing is always ok as long as you are aware of the daily dose you take.

I started at 12.5mg dmsa every 4 hours and after numerous rounds finally found the right dose and timing for me that works. That?s 5mg every 2.5 hours in the day and 3 hours at night.. This is a total of 45mg DMSA each day. which a lot less than you are taking. With this low dosing I get minimal side effects and can lead a normal-ish life.

I suggest reducing your dose to 6.25mg every 3 hours and see how you do. Thats 50mg DMSA per day.

If you feel thats too low go for 12.5mg, but you are dosing more frequently at 3 hours and you had a load of problems. so I d start much lower at 6.25 and work gently up.

One things for sure all those symptoms on round are a great big signpost that you are dosing way too high.

As a general rule of thumb, 3 rounds with zero or limited side effects is signal that you can increase the dose.

I also recommend you join this group :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-chelation/

It is dedicated to the cutler protocol and there are some seriously experienced people there that are available to help all the time. Maybe post the same message there are see what the experts say..but they will say the same a Bex and I..reduce the dose its way too high to be starting with.