News you won't see in controlled mainstream media.

It may seem an odd question, but I'm wondering about other peoples nails and hair here.

My nails are very thin, brittle, and moreyellowy transparent than they are white. Can this be due to mercury or just some other dietary deficiency?

I used to have really curly, wavy, thick hair, but a couple of years after the fillings, my hair started to lose its curl, became dry and brittle. For a while I thought I was losing my hair.

Demi, I know that money is an issue for you, but if you could possibly afford to come up with about $40, you would learn so much by buying and reading Andy Cutler's book, Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment. The things you describe regarding your nails and your hair are indicative of endocrine problems. Mercury interferes with our endocrine function. Andy Cutler explains these things very extensively in his book. You see, when you are mercury toxic, things like your thyroid and your adrenal glands are usually stressed and not working properly. This is why you get the hair and nail changes. Most people who have a thyroid and adrenal test with an endocrinologist will test normal (meaning that their body is producing the proper amount of hormones) however, when you are poisoned with mercury, mercury interferes with these hormones and how they work in the body by attaching to them. Thus, most of us could benefit from some thyroid support and adrenal support, even if our lab tests are normal. Andy's book is so informative and explains so much about what mercury does to us. He gives many recommendations on things to take for specific needs and conditions. Personally, I would not have survived without his book. His supplement recommendations have helped me tremendously. I have such poor endocrine function because of my mercury poisoning that I finally went to an endocrinologist and brought him information and made him listen to me. He ran a bunch of tests including 24 hour urine cortisol test to see how my adrenals are working. I know that my adrenals are all messed up because of my chronic debilitating fatigue. I am waiting for the results of this test. If they come back normal, I am going to beg him for some hydrocortisone.

Sandra

Thanks for the info. I just can't cope to read it right now. I had to drop out of university degree because I couldn't cope with medical aspect and changed to humanities. I can't watch medical dramas on tv, I get panic attacks. If there is hospital in a programme or someone is hurt and there is blood etc, I have to switch off or leave the cinema.

The mercury has hit most my anxiety levels and OCD means I have a very low coping mechanism. All this is so scary to me that I've had suicidal thoughts. I am not coping with this at all. I am not eating very well (incase I aggravate the vapours) and I am not sleeping. The thought of a neural toxin being in my body is too much for me. I have never smoked or drank much alcohol or done drugs. I am a control freak. This is really pushing me to the limits of coping.

Not only is it medical, but also dental, which means I have to have my teeth fixed, and I have panic attacks as soon as I set foot in a dentists. I cancelled my appointment to have my wisdom tooth out three times and was crying before I went in. My pulse shot to over 130 while I was in the chair and set off the alarms.

I can't cope with this much, so I just have to ask people who have read the book questions. I just wish there were more places to go to get support. I can't find one active group on this condition.

Also my family and friends don't believe me, and are saying I could have all kinds of diseases. I am terrified and not coping. They tell me that people are persuading me it's my teeth to sell their products and books. I don't know who to believe. I just hope the dentist can help. I have no other hope.

Demi, I totally know how you feel! On July 12 it will be two years that I lost my health. My nervous system is totally messed up. I started out with vertigo (BPPV) and haven't been well since. I have been down the road of inner ear disorders, lymes disease, and I had my mercury fillings replaced. Through all of this I have a nervous system that is on the edge all the time. I can barely cope every day and I know the people around me don't understand. I feel as though I am just existing every day just trying to make it from one day to the next. I'm tired. I also have had suicidal thoughts but I am a Christian and I do know the Lord and I can't do that. My faith is the only thing that has kept me from completely losing it. One of the ways that my relationship with the Lord helps me for example, last night I woke up feeling VERY dizzy and when that happens my whole body is in a panic state. I realized the song 'Be strong and take courage, do not fear or be afraid, for the Lord will go before you, His light will show the way' was going through my mind. I hadn't heard that song for awhile so I knew it was the Lord assuring me to hold on.
It's hard to keep going, but I know I can't give up. I have learned gobs since I have been sick. Alot of it alarming because we do live in a very toxic time. I have depended alot on forums and just listening and seeing what is helping people. Trying different things. But it is hard.
I feel for you, for it is certainly overwhelming. Just know that you are not alone!
Vicki

Thanks Vicki! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I'm so sorry for all you're going through, that we're all going through. It's so hard.

I saw the holistic dentist today, but he was a real horrid man. I'm never going back there. He started shouting at me, and told me to stop talking and listen.

What he said has happened is that I have sent my body into psychosymantic (spelling) shock - that I think I am ill, and so I am.

He said that I have a gut/absorption problem that means I have low resistance to any toxin. He also said I have very poor skeleton which is causing my muscle and pins and needles. I also have poor jaw bite, which causes headaches.

Mercury, he said, is aggravating my problem, but not causing it. But he was very reluctant to say if it was contributing, which is what I was therefore in the first place!

All he could think about was how much money he would get from my teeth and he didn't want to sit around talking (which is what he said to me). He wanted to crown teeth and advised against removal (which he would do because he'd get more money from crowns) because of my poor bite.

Also he said I should be checked out for cancer (which really put me at ease, right!)

Never heard of diamondlite and said those who promote it might be giving us false information - but he wanted the literature I had on the subject anyway.

Only good thing to come out of this was that I saw pictures of inside my mouth.

I'm looking for another dentist who doesn't treat me like a money-machine, if it's possible, and diamondlite.

Wow! When you are already feeling bad and then have a doctor act that way!
The first biological dentist I went to was SO strange. He had his business out in his garage. Actually the office was his garage and the dental area he worked on patients was in a small shed next to it. He had this machine that he boasted greatly about that cost his $30,000 and how good it was in taking some kind of X-rays BUT it didn't work.
Then while he was working on my mouth, he proceeded to tell me about his getting some sexual disease from a girlfriend and I don't even remember his point, I was just ready to flee. He was on the Dr. Huggins list of dentists, but there are good ones and bad ones.
I landed up finding a gem of a dentist. He got sick from the mercury early on in his dentist career and has been biological for 15 years. It is a blessing to have a dentist who really understands what you are going through.
Hope you are able to find someone good soon!!
Vicki

Thanks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It was pretty horrendous experience, especially for me being phobic. Can't stress how awful he was, worst dentist ever had in my whole life.

He kept going on about cancer and other major diseases. I am pretty sure I don't have any because my doctor has run lots of tests on me. I had some results yesterday - blood count and hormones are all in "normal" range and my estrogen has dropped slightly. I also had scan 2 years ago for cysts and tumours.

If I had something major, starting at when I was 12, which is 18 years ago, I think I would be dead by now. What I have is a lot of "little" annoying things that won't go away. I thought it might be due to mercury, but he doesn't think so.

For some years I had to see specialists about my poor bite. I have a severe receding lower jaw. They did their very best for me. This guy thought he could fix everything with a couple of (very expensive) crowns and got very cross because I couldn't co-ordinate the bites he wanted me to do.

Teriible, terrible, terrible experience, and I am still trying to recover!

Only good thing is I have learnt that I "only" have 5 mercury fillings, and 2 of them are small, one root. And all but the root one are very shallow and easy to replace. He wanted to drill and crown my root filling and do something else on it, but I just want it out. He didn't recommend it because I have lost several other teeth. I don't care about that (I'm not a very vain person, especially not when people don't generally look into my mouth a lot!), I just want it out. It's causing me pain as it's decaying and is almost down to the gum on one side. I want it out. I also want another tooth (I think upper right wisdom tooth) extracted as it jugs out and bites my gum a lot. He noticed that and again shouted at me when I said it was the angle of the tooth, he said it was me, that I move my mouth and so I bit it.

I do a lot of computer work, and I mean a LOT. I've studied for years. Everyone who does tends to get bad posture and leg pains, especially worse if I have a birth defect in my hip.

Really he had no ability to see beyond making money and didn't relax me at all.

I think I have been too hard on our NHS dentists. They might not agree with us about the mercury, but they have (all but one) been so very nice. A lot of them don't get much money from fixing our teeth and the specialists get a fixed salary. When I had a tooth out earlier this year that was in awkward position, I had to go to hospital to be seen by the top dentist. He was an absolute wonderful one. He sat with me for ages, really being supportive and understanding, and never ever shouted at me. All the nurses were wonderful and genuinely cared how I felt.

I hope I find a dentist with diamondlite who can replace the three fillings. This man wanted to do the fillings right away without any testing, didn't mention any precautions, or respect my desire that I'd told him several times that I wanted to research the materials he was using. He said he knew better than me about the materials.

Maybe mercury exposure has made him aggressive or something, I don't know. He said he had problems with it when he had the fillings. I think he needs to be more compassionate.

I am REALLY stressed - not eating or sleeping much - but at least I have some plan now - 2 extractions and 3-4 fillings (he said I have other cavities needing sorted, but I will get second opinion as I was mislead on that before).

He also said my tongue was heavily coated - aswell as everything else wrong with me. I felt extremely upset coming from there and told the nurse that while she was lovely, what he says is enough to make someone depressed suicidal.

Vicki, if you would like to email me privately, it would be good to chat with you. My email is demererra@yahoo.co.uk

I'm a Christian aswell, so understand exactly how you are feeling.

As a Bible-studying Christian, I have located some interesting passages Christians should be aware of. See the first four posts in this forum.

http://herballure.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB52

Demi, Have you felt any better after having the amalgams out? I am just learning about this stuff - and have some symptoms that seem like mercury problems. I am a christian too and feel the Lord is healing me - but I think it is scary not understanding what is going on in my body...I just keep relying on the Lord to have control over it all. Any positive words that you have felt better after any treatments?
Thank you!
Laura

do you have longitudal ridges or lines on your fingernails?
Most obvious sign of mercury toxicity! Yes, bad, brittle nails, dry hair and skin. And lots of hair loss!

Yes, MMM, that's an often forgotten mode of diagnosis.

Those lines are called mees lines and are currently used by mainstream medicine for diagnosing arsenic and lead poisoning. I believe it's possible that it can be applied to mercury and other heavy metals as well.

I do have lines on my nails. They run vertical and are very deep in places.

from what I have read another indicator is the lack of the white half moon at the base of the fingernail

Well, I've heard the opposite! Namely, that a large moon is a bad sign, and that as you get healthier and healthier, the moons get smaller and smaller.

Who knows.

I haven't heard either way, but maybe we could all weigh in with the state of our moons? lol <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Here's mine -

Both thumbs - very big moons.
Fingers - generally small.
Piggy fingers - almost non-existent

I have moons! Got them as a teen. I can tell you that small children do not have these and are not born with them. So something must make them happen. I have them on all fingers but the pinkys.

Oooooh, a POLL. I love polls! My fingers:

Thumbs: small moons.
Other fingers: v. small/nonexistent.

And I don't know what it all means! Beware of anyone who says he absolutely knows!

now I'm worried..no moons...just thumbs have a tiny bit...Sandra P........lots of vertical lines

Maybe the size of the moons doesn't mean a damn thing! I would judge my health by how I feel and function on a daily basis and not the moons.

Oh... me too, We were just having fun! All this metal talk we had to throw something lighter in there!

I received this email yesterday from a friend in Florida.


Today Is National Mental Health day!

You can do your bit by remembering to send an email to at least one unstable person.

<img src="http://herballure.com/Images/Misc/CrazyPerson.gif">
(Well...my job's done!)