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I upped my dosage and have had to pull back some; I recognize the Herxheimer effect when I see it, and I need to be less eager to increase the dosage. That isn't bad news; it's just the way things go when your body is evacuating the bad stuff that you're taking serrapeptase to rid yourself of. I've pulled back from three tablets once or twice a day to one twice a day. I see some people writing "give it up!" if you have a reaction from taking too much. If I had followed this kind of advice when I was undergoing chelation therapy for lead poisoning, I'd still have lead poisoning. The point, with that and with serrapeptase, is to get rid of the nasty stuff slowly. If you try to go too quickly, the "cure" will overwhelm your body because too many toxins will be released at one time. I had lead poisoning for eight long years because doctors know next to nothing about lead poisoning. They kept trying to treat symptoms, and when I said, "All these things are connected; they all happened at the same time," they said, "Oh, we don't see any connection." I finally learned to do my own research, and I demanded a lead test (which is NOT a blood test; what's in the blood shows only current exposure, not all the lead stored in the tissues), which found that I had three and a half times more lead in me as the level at which the government declares you to be "lead poisoned." I don't know if serrapeptase is good for that particular malady, but I did become familiar with the Herxheimer effect even at the slow, steady pace that chelation therapy requires. When I was done, the lead was gone from my body, and all the weird stuff I had been enduring was gone with it. The discomfort of the cure was definitely worth getting rid of the cause! I'm using serrapeptase because I have bone-on-bone arthritis in my knees and very foolishly had surgery to repair a torn meniscus. So much for my research skills. After being talked into this surgery, other orthopedists told me why I was in worse shape than before: "Arthritis does not like being disturbed." So although I hadn't even known I had preexisting severe arthritis until the meniscus tore and X-rays showed the sorry state of my knees, I felt the arthritis, big time, after the surgery and after the meniscus had healed. My joints have felt much better since taking serrapeptase--right up until I decided to increase the dosage. Oddly, the knees still feel better, but all these other aches and pains have shown up. I urge anyone taking this supplement to be aware of the Herxheimer reaction and to take it as a sign that the supplement is working and that you just need to pull back a bit. Don't get impatient, don't try to take the optimal dose right off the bat. Increase the dosage slowly but steadily and expect some initial discomfort. It will be soooooo worth it.