I don't usually wake up in the middle of the night when I am not chelating. 17 mg of each is a very small dosage. Have you considered increasing it? How long have you been at this dosage? I was at 25 mg of each for a few weeks, then increased the ALA first before increasing the DMSA.

It would be nice to see some animal studies on chelation that compared mercury excretion for increasing the dosage vs increasing the duration of the round. Some have claimed that doubling the dosage increases mercury excretion by a factor of 1.4x (ie. the square root of 2). How much does increasing the round duration help? In other words, how much more mercury is excreted in a 6 day round than in two 3 day rounds, if they are at the same dosage?

I guess it would be okay to take twice as much ALA as DMSA. I am wondering if it would make sense to let the ratio get over 2:1 though. DMSA is expensive, and not so convenient to divide dosages.