More frequent dosing vs. dosage increase - Andy & others

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My son is 4, soon to be 5. We have been chelating him on the AC protocol since

he was 3 1/2. He has a dx of PDD. We have done 75 rounds. We have been at 20

mg of DMSA and ALA for about six months. My son has weighed 40 lbs for quite a

long time. We were getting great gains for a while, however before Christmas

they started to wane, so we upped his dose to 22 mg at that time. He reacted

really badly, so back to 20 mg we went, and have been there ever since. Again,

the gains, particularly as they pertain to language have stalled. He has

several hundred words, can communicate his wants and needs quite well. However,

we cannot progress past 3 word sentences, and he still has auditory processing

and expressive language issues. He recently gained about 2 lbs, so we were

considering trying a 22 mg dose again, which is just a little bit beyond the 1/2

mg per lb of weight.

However, this past weekend with the daylight savings time change, we discovered

something interesting. We typically do a 2, 5, 8, 11 schedule, starting after

school on Friday. So after changing the clocks, at one point I started dosing

at 2 1/2 hour intervals so as to get back to our usual time schedule. With the

shorter dosing intervals we got much more language on round, and a desire to

engage in pretend play. In lieu of trying a higher dose, can we try more

frequent dosing? What would the explanation be for this? Do some people do

better with more frequent dosing?

Thanks. Irene