Wow, this is BIG news! US Food and Drug Administration admits that mercury amalgams hurt some people:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/hl_nm/fda_dentalfillings_dc_2
[quote]Mr. Chen wrote:
So like you’ve gotten a hold of an informed doctor.
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Yes. I think I mentioned that a long time ago. He is an M.D. that specializes in metal detoxification.
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How are you assessing your mercury levels?[/quote]
We measured my urine pre-provocation and then measured my urine post-provocation, using a DMPS challenge.
Actually I felt much better the next day I got the last filling out of my mouth, I had about 10 as well and got them taken out on 4 different visits. Everytime I got some out the others started to hurt, and obviously (as I saw under the filling before getting it filled again) my body was pushing them out, the candida in my system was mutating wildly (so many forms and shapes even doctors would have gone crazy, candida binds with mercury and mutates, it can eat all their fancy anti-fungals like it was icecream) and telling me in all ways it should : Something is wrong with you, find it out ! Guess the culprit was mercury and lead combined from my amalgam and 4 years of heavy tuna diet.
Actually there is many clinical anecdotal evidence of people having acute mercury intoxication in blood and used clay, the next day the test was reading below normal. I seen many but I don’t feel like digging this far into it since I can feel the clay working on me. I have grown so weary of this intoxication that I can feel the mercury moving in me and the way it makes your skin feel saggy and dry.
When you take essential oils and garlic, it releases it from your nerves and if you’re not careful it gets stucked under your skin again. Thats why DMSA dont work in much people because they forget about clay and moderate exercise. I guess what I’m saying is don’t stop the chelators since you must have alot in your nerves at your age, what I’m saying is bathe in clay too. The chelator will bind it , and the clay will pull it out by ion exchange. Eat the clay if it’s fine enough too with psilyum husks.
The doctors here are not very informed, I was probably the first patient of my doctor that talked about possible mercury poisoning from fish and amalgam, yet when I told her that the amalgams were 40% mercury, she chuckled as if she knew that whole gimmick was set up in advance and without hesitation gave me a prescription for a blood test since I was getting them removed at the same time. Whoosh syntax, I’m feench btw 
DMSA challenge mercury testing is illegal in canada so I guess we’ll never know what my real burden was, but it must have been very high. I had these since I was around 8-10 and I’m now 25, so I grown with them and lost quite a few before this procedure that I actually chewed and swallowed thinking it was a stone (yes I have very strong teeth since I understood fluoride was shit and how to remineralise my teeth with crystal salt and good calcium-phosphorus supplements).
Anyways it’s good to know people are starting to catch the drift, I been talking about those amalgams for years, many of my friends have them, and now all of a sudden when they see how much better I look they all want to take them out, when earlier they quite ignored my discourse as “just another problem”.
I feel so good that sometimes I feel like going in the street with a big cardboard that reads : Suck my kiss amalgam dentists ! and run like a monkey while giving the finger to the sky, or was it Olympus ? uh… yeah
Namase !
Oh yeah and mercury is also called quicksilver and was reputed in anscient times to cause progressive crazyness. And I guess it all depends upon the soul or whatever we like to call it but for me it was very frustrating to be so debilitated, to the point I was generating testosterone like a machine and I needed to smoke pot to control my peaks.
Quicksilver indeed, at times I was thinking so fast and was bombarded with so much profound insight from so much perspectives that I didn’t have time to process them, adding to the frustration , the testosterone and adrenalin levels, and thus to the intoxication in general.
But now at least I know I wasn’t crazy, I was just very high and had 10 active volcanoes of mercury vapor in my mouth. What a releif !
[quote]BigKDawg wrote:
anoddparadigm wrote:
Undone wrote:
You might also want to take a look at this article:
That is a very good website.
Actually that is an absolutely horrendous website… totally anti-alternative. Now dont get me wrong, their are plenty of hucksters out their looking to make a buck promising everything under the sun… but this site is so g-d damn mainstream medicine that if anything deviates from the supposed superiority of “Modern Medicine” (meaning drugs, surgery, chemo, etc…) than its a scam, quackery, or total horseshit.
Suffice to say, Stephen Barret is a fucking idiot.[/quote]
No, he’s not. The website backs up its claims with scientific publications, while the alternative medicine field does not.
If more people went to Quackwatch, fewer people would be scammed, including people with chronic illnesses who can’t work and are made even poorer by such scams. In the case of mercury toxicity, their article contains sound science, unless you’re suggesting that the “mercury amalgam industry” funded the research and suppressed evidence to the contrary.
OF COURSE we’re suggesting that rofl
Follow the white rabbit !
Think about it for a moment, if I was stupid and saw life as a series of scams like those people who have nothing else to do do, then all natural remedies would be innefective anyways because my body was completely intoxicated from a source I had no knowledge about prior, no wonder ! Aloes is an excellent immune booster ? Of course it is I was just too stupid to let my body use it…
There are no victims in this experience, just people who are stupid until they make up their own mind by researching on their own accord.
I realise there is no safe amount of mercury exposure, so it is with any heavy metal, it does not belong in your body.
Namase !
I got my third DMPS IV today. This time I was able to take the full 5 ccs. Last time, I could only take 3ccs, as it made me a bit dizzy. This time really nothing bad, save an occasional bad taste in the mouth (a normal experience when getting these types of IV).
Since the previous IV I have had a few mild side-effects. I had a very slight headache for a few days, followed by a light pressure in my head, which was slightly pleasant. One or two times I had a period of tachycardia. Am not entirely sure that this latter is related to the DMPS.
I also am testing (over the next six hours, through urine samples) my mercury levels, so that I can compare them to the first time I had it tested. It is not extraordinary for the mercury levels to rise as more of it gets flushed from deeper in the tissues. Of course, at some point, it should go down.
I will meet again with doctor (nurses give the IV) after the fifth IV. At that time, depending on levels of mercury, we may decide to discontinue the IVs (which are expensive) and go with oral DMPS.
I am mildly optimistic. I am feeling better.
Yeah I got the pressure feeling, bliss is normal because you definately feel better.
Tell me are you also on high dose fish oils ? Do you smoke cannabis ? If you don’t you should know that it is the medicine of choice for a man your age with heavy intoxication, it will protect your brain against the free radical damage induced by the chelators, and other collateral damage.
I’m not sure but your doctor might even agree if you tell him you lost apetite or have pains. I’m not saying this because I love cannabis, it truely is heralded as the kind of medicine you should take in your situation, there are extracts like Sativex now available in a few places, Donabinol ? can’t remember the other names.
Namase !
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Tell me are you also on high dose fish oils ? Do you smoke cannabis ? If you don’t you should know that it is the medicine of choice for a man your age with heavy intoxication, [/quote]
Even though the fish oil I use is very pure, I have been cutting back on it (paraonoia :). In fact, I have not been using it in a bit. I have completely eliminated fish, large or small. Maybe when I have completely detoxed, I will have fish once in a great while.
I would like to know more about cannabis as a brain protectant. Can you refer me to an article, etc that speaks to this issue?
I would LOVE any excuse to do direct research (i.e. bong hits) on this subject
This is quite consise, but does not say everything, not just yet !
Namase !
Btw there are a few a DHA supplement from microalgae, you need that alot for detoxing and keeping membrane integrity.
Namase !
Had my fourth DMPS IV last Tuesday. I also got back the test of mercury levels that I had done after the third DMPS IV. It still shows a high burden of mercury toxicity…
I will do one more DMPS IV, get another mercury test, and reassess. Most likely, I will start doing DMPS oral chelation (taking DMPS in pill form, rather than IVs) after the next IV, July 15.
Although it doesn’t contain a lot of references (don’t know how much is conjecture, etc) found this to be a rather interesting polemic against Quackwatch:
http://www.quackpotwatch.org/WisconsinWar/who_are_these_so.htm
yeah - sounds about right…
It’s been a while since I posted. I did a 4th and 5th DMPS IV. Apparently I still have quite a bit of mercury to detox (according to the challenge test that I did).
Now I am going to stop the DMPS IVs (because they are expensive) and go with a long-term chelation using DMSA (which is VERY inexpensive). I will be trying the Cutler protocol (explained here: http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/Andy_dose_sched.html#frequency)
In the meantime I have discovered a very interesting fact. I started taking my body temperature hourly using a digital thermometer. I have noticed that I often have very low body temperature, sometimes it dips into 94.X fahrenheit.
Often it is 95.X F and only rarely does it get into the 97.X range. I need to explore this more. It MIGHT indicate hypothyroidism or it MIGHT indicate adrenal insufficiency.
Apparently hypothyroidism goes undiagnosed in many people (it is especially prevalent in mercury-burdened individuals). The Thyroid blood tests are often inaccurate. For an explanation of why, see here:
http://www.drkaslow.com/html/thyroid.html
Ok, so it’s been a longtime since I updated this thread, so I thought I would. I finished my five cycles of DMPS IVs. I still have a lot of mercury to chelate out of my body. I started to continue with the DMSA and Alpha Lipoic Acid. Those are much cheaper substances than the DMPS. However, like DMPS, they are problematic. There is one school that holds that all of the above substances can redistribute in the body (rather than be carried out) and this can lead to even more severe symptoms.
I started hearing about a new mercury chelator, OSR, that has recently been developed by Boyd Haley, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Kentucky who has been one of the leading investigators into mercury toxicity, etc. So far, everything I have heard about this product is positive and I look forward to possibly initiating detox with this product in the near future.