Thanks! Alot of good info I was looking for. I was actually thinking of starting DMSA at about 5mg for a couple rounds then slowly increasing and test out at a few more rounds and gradually going that route. I do want to pull the merc out, but I'm not in such a hurry that I want to feel a whole lot worse if I can help it.

So it sounds as if I can go on supplementing without DMSA and take quite a while to improve, or I can start with a low dose of DMSA and later moving on to ALA but as you said there is that risk of "unclogging the sink" at times and feeling very ill. I think I have a slow phase II liver detox pathway as my Liver Toxicity Profile from 3 years back showed, so I may have to be real careful and keep supplementing my liver and adrenals (currently taking Adrenal support and Milk thistle). I tried NAC once a little after my last amalgam removal and it about knocked me for a loop....i've still not recovered fully. But the body starting to dump may have worked into the equation as you mentioned.

One question; you said

How would you describe not using it safely? Do you mean the length of cycles/timing and the dosage? Is there anything else to be aware of?

Again, thanks for your reply...i really appreciate it.