Thanks for your input here. I really hope the ALA helps you -- have you started it yet?
By the way, here's what I do when I take my nighttime dose. I have a dawn simulator which takes half an hour to gradually come on. Usually the light will wake me very gently before the alarm goes off. I reach over, pick up my cup with my dose, take the lid off and drink it, then roll over and go back to sleep. I still feel it in the morning but it's certainly endurable.
If you've been a mum then this is a piece of cake anyway, LOL.
Thanks to the others here for making suggestions too. Yes, I tried copper a while back. It made me sick. To be honest, I went downhill when I tweaked my supplements recently and what I'm doing works OK for me now, so I have no desire to mess about with it again for now. I did start taking milk thistle and I seem to be getting on with that OK.
This round I decided to go with my gut feeling and increase both chelators, so now I'm on 25mg ALA and 12.5mg DMSA. I'm aware that Andy Cutler would not recommend this and it was a risk, but I'm trying to trust my intuition more these days. I've been fine, no worse than before. I feel weird at times and the insomnia has worsened, but this is better than I felt without the chelators. I'm still fatigued all the time, but somehow I have more motivation to get up and do things. I'm still sticking to the no-sugar plan and I've cooked all kinds of nice things, mainly different kinds of curries. I also made homemade chicken stock this weekend, which is a big operation. I haven't done that in over a year and during that time, I could only dream of being able to do it.
I'm now wondering where I should end the round. I was a little late in taking one nighttime dose (forgot to set the alarm) and I woke up with redistribution symptoms. I've always felt better on chelation. See how I go, but I think I'll carry on tomorrow, which would be day 4 of the round.
