Hi Rocker, the impression I got from reading Andy's book was DMSA is used early on to actually help supress the symptoms as the mercury is naturally beginning to dump back out of your organs from being stored for so long. This occurs, after you've had the last amalgam removed. The organs start to offload their storage and that is when people really can start to feel 'repoisoned". It is known as the second stage of suffering. So if you suffer it and don't take anything, you could be like that for a LONGGGGGG time. DMSA is used to quicken that stage up and as I said, sometime suppress the symptoms. However, other people notice it increases the symptoms. It's very individual and you can feel different from round to round. Certainly, it will speed the process up and also help make sure mercury is moved in a more stable and continuous manner, not being stirred up erratically as much as other things.

Sulphur based nutrients can be great for some people and a nightmare for others. Garlic, etc can be dangerous in a mercury toxic person. Garlic does have enough of a grip on mercury, but has NO way of holding it stably or moving it stably and can cause it to bounce around the body and end up in far worse areas creating havoc. Other people can handle it better, perhaps due to their better detox systems. I do not know.

DMSA is not wise to take at Andy's recommendation of 50 mg. It is FAR too high for most people, and if you push yourself to take it, you can get very sick. You might handle it, but it's best to start with half that amount like 25 mg, or even lower 12.5 mg. You will be glad you did believe me and can increase the dose later on as you feel comfortable.

also. symptoms do not always occur in the first few rounds, you can think you're ok and the dose is fine and wham you can get hit all of a sudden on one round and be made very ill for a very long time. This I have found is because sometimes more mercury is moved than other times and if you're taking a little too much for your body to keep up with, it is unable to keep up with the amount o fmercury being moved through and then you can get a backfire. The mercury the body coudl not move out, but was still being pulled out from teh DMSA, can hit you all at once and you can feel respoisoned. Very similar than have a redistribution effect from taking something like garlic. So it's all very risky.

DMSA won't hurt you if you do not have mercury poisoning. Even child can use it. It is used also for lead poisoning. If you hve no metal toxicity and you use DMSA, you shouldn't notice a thing from it. I'm not saying it's as inert as water, but it's not liable to cause a problem. It's when you have mercury poisoning that DMSA if not used safey can cause the problems.

If you have a low level of mercury on your hair test and other tests and you have all the symptoms of mercury toxicity, youwill most likely be sicker than most patients. This is because low levels can mean retention toxicity and that you are holding onto the mercury and storing it, rather than eliminating it into the outer tissues and the hair etc. These patients are the sickest patients of the lot. The other senario are those with very high levels and tehy too migh tbe very ill, but show they are pushing the mercury out into the hair etc and usually can be detoxed easier.

Of course, it also comes down to tolerance. You can have a very low level of mercury and simply be totally intolerant to minimal mercury and display very toxic symptoms. Someone else might have more mercury but be healthy.

Anyway, I hope that helps. sorry I've gone on for very long here.