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Amalgam removal!
#32245
02/20/08 03:44 PM
02/20/08 03:44 PM
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Hi everyone,
This is my first post on this site. I had my amalgams removed several years ago by a dentist who wasn't very educated on mercury poisoning. Iv'e been chelating per Andy Cutler protocal for a little over a year know with slow but steady progress. My quesion is how do you know if the dentist really removed ALL of the amalgam in each tooth? Has anyone ever found out after having thier fillings removed that there was some still left behind, and just covered over with enamel or porcelain material ?
Thanks, Roger
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32247
02/20/08 04:51 PM
02/20/08 04:51 PM
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Well, I had my 12 amalgams out 22 years ago. I started chelating about a year and a half ago with DMSA..I started at 25mg every 4 hrs without a problem, then gradually built up to 100mg without any side effects..I really felt great. Then I added ALA at 12.mg evry 3 hrs for a few rounds, stiil felt great..went up to 25mg for several rounds..still felt really good, then all of a sudden all hell broke loose..muscle/joint pain,depression,anxiety,nightmares,weekness,brain fog..ect. I had to stop chelating all together for about 6 months. I just started to chelate again with DMSA only 12.5mg. I think what happened was after having my filling out for over 22 years the level of mercury in my body was fairly low and the DMSA cleared it out pretty quickly and I felt great, but when I added the ALA it started pulling mercury out of my brain way to fast and I just ended up with alot of mercury in my body again. But sometimes I still wonder if that dentist got all of it out. I have been trying to support my adrenals and thyroid before I start chelating again, this time I'll take it very slow with the ALA.
Thanks, Roger
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32249
02/21/08 08:48 AM
02/21/08 08:48 AM
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I believe what you experienced was rather a liberation of a large bacteria pocket. It happened to me too sometimes. At first I thought I had Lyme, because of the pains radiating into legs and arms, and the tingling, but it wasn't that, it cleared within days, and everything was well again. ALA can do that, because it goes everywhere, especially into cells and brain, where e.g. mycoplasma bacterias hide from immune system. I always feel better and better after a die-off. I use also various stuff to cleanup the tissues from the toxins and bacterias, like L-carnosine, molybdenum, pantothenic acid and soon to add more stuff. Things have definitely started going well for me (and the change has been fast too!), once I forgot about the mercury and started treating myself for bacterias and other pathogens.
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32254
02/23/08 09:03 PM
02/23/08 09:03 PM
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If it was all pathgoen related, I would not have taken years to excrete metals in the process. Antifungals and diet helped to a point, but did nothing to address the underlying storage of metals which I needed to get out and chelation was the only real way to achieve this. If it was just pathogens, then antifungals and diet would have been it for me, because I wouldn't have spent a load of money on DMSA to grab the metals and get them out if the antifungals were doing the job.
You can explain it all away if you wish as pathogens, but you do not speak for me or my past experiences. How do you know there is no evidence that mercury doesn't cause detox reactions? Have you read people's experiences on here where testing has been done before/ after chelation? We've had one just recently.
Good grief, it's over the internet what can happen during mercury healing crisis, it's in mercury amalgam books. Mercury causes horrific detox reactions and I went through hell on earth as that stuff was coming out of me.
The ADA also claim that there is no evidence mercury causes any problems at all....they too would deny mercury causes detox reactions, because in saying that, it would be admitting that mercury causes toxicity in the first place.
in order for the body to become toxic with mercury in the first place, which is often why pathogens flourish, there needs to be an opposite when one takes actions against the mercury, which is detox. Detox anything and it usually causes a worsening of symptoms. How can mercury be any different? It's even more lethal than just about any other toxin/metal. So it doesn't hurt whilst it goes in...and according to you, no evidence that it hurts on the way out? This to me makes no sense.
If you deny detox reactions? You might as well deny the toxicity of mercury whilst you're at it. Because mercury isn't water. Mercury is not a neutral substance. The stuff hurts and it hurts like crazy going in, it hurts like crazy coming out for many people.
Die off aint fun either, but it sure the heck isn't the only thing going on with people treating amalgam toxicity.
Not everybody has lyme Pgm and ALA might be effective against pathogens, but that does not explain everything or how people with amalgam poisoning, may not have recovered from antifungal aid, but rather from chelating instead. We see a few of those on the forums. Most of them by the way have been treating pathogens and finding "some" relief, but mercury elimination appears to be the main focus and the way some are reclaiming their health/lives.
to explain away detox or reactions from chelation as pathogen related and not much more, is denying almost completely the role mercury is playing or the fact that specific chelating agents that target mercury and/or lead are doing anything but treating pathogens. Sorry but this is misleading. Chelating agents are not direct antifungal agents, but metal chelating agents. They are what they are. If pathogen related conditions are improved at the sametime, great, but that is not what these agents are specifically targeted at.
Someone could also simply treat their pathogens in other ways without paying out a lot of money for chelating agents, when in reality they don't chelate anything, they just treat pathogens..?
Sorry, no offense, but there is no way I could put everybody's symptoms on here, detox or otherwise all down to pathogens. I know some may have more pathogen related problems than mercury, but others may have more mercury. Who are we to deny that because our experience may have been otherwise?
I feel both pathogens and mercury are capable of causing symptoms in both toxicity and symptoms during elimination/mobilisation.
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32255
02/24/08 12:49 AM
02/24/08 12:49 AM
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(there is still no evidence for that mercury causes any detox reactions, some may excrete mercury when a "detox reaction" happens, while others do not), Ermmmm, what on earth are you talking about? What are you doing here? Have you been hijacked too?
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident."
Sunshine
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32256
02/24/08 01:56 AM
02/24/08 01:56 AM
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Yeah, it's probably safe to say there is plenty of evidence that mercury causes plenty of detox reactions. Considering the fact that doctors do study it and track the detox reactions...
but, there isn't any evidence that chelation pulls mercury out from amalgams causing nightmarish symptoms. I don't know where people get that idea. there is plenty of evidence it simply isn't true. people with amalgams get chelated every day... for mercury.. for cadmium... for lead... and they all get better not worse from chelating.
in fact, I feel pretty good after chelating for about a year with 5 amalgams still in... maybe 6... i have to look in there and count.
That being said, I find it difficult to imagine that mercury residue under composites could cause major issues while chelating. Bacteria under mercury fillings with composites over them can be problematic however.
If you're using only an oral chelator liike dmsa, a big portion of it gets used up in your liver anyway, which will hold onto a lot of toxins. I'd venture it's quite doubtful much of it ever reaches the mercury in the amalgams in your mouth. There's a lot of argument about it of course.
and then, there;s the fact that the first few weeks of chelating may often do nothing or not much... and then all of a sudden stuff starts realeasing. It could be anything. You might want to get tested for lead for instance. Dmsa binds better to lead than mercury. A lot of people have problems with lead (or copper, aluminum, tin) and aren't aware of it. The blood tests are kind of expensive but worth it.
After 22 years your body would have eliminated much of the mercury on it's own. but you get a new breathful daily no matter what. over 40 tons of mercury (that's old data btw) are released into the environment every year by industry and fossil fuel power plants. They are building a new coal generated power plant in China every week so that's sure to give us all a health boost too.
Plan on some form of chelation forever I guess. I like cilantro in that respect.
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32258
02/24/08 01:23 PM
02/24/08 01:23 PM
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Thanks for the input everyone, I appreciate it.
After I had my fillings out 22 years ago I didn't do anything at all up until 2 years ago when I first started reading about chelation.
During that time I slowly improved but I still had many symptoms...although I do believe most of the mercury in my body came out during that time, I know I still had alot of it stored in my brain.
As if it wasn't bad enough I had 12 fillings, my dentist told me while he was removing my fillings that whoever put my fillings in didn't know what he was doing. He said he couldn't believe how much mercury was in them.
So at this point after not chelating for the past 10 months, I just started again using very low doses of ALA and DMSA. I'm going to chelate with DMSA 10mg, ALA 2.5mg every 2 hours for 3 days on 4 days off.
I started doing this 2 days ago, even though the ALA is very low at 2.5mg I could feel it right away (in a good way). So I plan on taking nice and slow to start, may even use the ALA every other round just to be on the safe side, until I feel as though I can start increasing the dose.
Thanks again all!
Roger
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Re: Amalgam removal!
#32259
02/25/08 08:36 AM
02/25/08 08:36 AM
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Sunshine, Bex. Heh, I have not been hijacked.. There is no solid evidence for that detox reactions are caused by mercury. You might think that using DMSA and because it helps that it proves that you're chelating away mercury. This is not necessarily so. DMSA, like any other chelator has also lots of other properties, like being anti-pathogenic (has anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties) and chelating also acetaldehyde. Some proof that you can get well in various ways, is that some have gotten well on protocols including anti-biotics as the major component (those that pass blood-brain barrier). I do not recommend these, as the detox reactions can be very severe, and you also risk killing beneficial bacterias. And yes, not everyone here has Lyme, that is certain, and I didn't claim that either. But everyone has Lyme-like detox reactions, and this points out to some OTHER bacterias, most likely at least mycoplasma. Anti-fungals alone are not the way to treat amalgam-illness, if bacterias are the main concern, so I'm not surprised that everyone doesn't get cured on anti-fungals alone. Those who can't stand cysteine (which is dense in sulfur), or sulfur rich foods, investigate rather the possibility that your bacterias in bowels are NOT ok, and that this needs to be addressed. Ray Saarela on the amalgam research list http://dfn-listserv.fzk.de/archives/amalgam.html(see especially the messages from 1998-2001), thinks that this is because of the bacterias that also feed on chelators such as ALA and DMPS, and produce toxic H2S, that makes you feel sick as a dog. What does mercury then cause? Well the only thing that appears sure knowledge is that it causes pathological changes in immune system, letting the pathogens accumulate over the years in our bodies, with emphasis on intracellular invaders. You may or may not have accumulated more mercury in body, but everyone is still sick even if body mercury levels are low. Hope this helped someone.
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