Hi Birdlady,

Well, I"m not sure why, but Andy did say some people use DMSA up more quickly than others which might require more frequent intake. But it also may mean you are very sensitive to metals and perhaps the movement, even slight redistribution, is enough to create too many symptoms in you.

You can extend it to every 4 hours during the night if it helps you get more sleep and go back to every 3 during the day. Many do this. However, if that still causes too much suffering, then you'd need to stick to 3 during the night too.

Vitamin C powder with bioflavanoids, when I was mercury poisoned was incredibly powerful, that plus selenium. I added vitamin E later for even more effect. These three alone is pretty much what I took supplement wise back then. I didn't find much else ALL that helpful. Though in hindsight, I think magnesium and zinc might have been good to add there too.

Vitamin C, for me at that time, encouraged release/mobilising of metals. I assume that may have been because of increased antioxidant power from taking it and the indirect response was an increase in ability to detox. It's not a direct chelator apparently, but it certainly had some effect! As did the others.

Yeah, you can take too much and get the runs for sure. Good way to find out your tolerance level and then you can back off a bit and take a little less.

Feeling ill, feeling better, feeling ill, feeling better, is the way it goes with detoxing mercury. A pattern that I know only too well. It can be ongoing horrible symptoms for ages and then improvement and then worse and then better. And sometimes the feeling bad can last too long, especially if you've redistributed a bunch of mercury, which I did many times and was ill for months on end sometimes. Though it got rid of some mercury in the process, it hurt a lot.

Hows the hair going? any further growth?