Hello,

Is anyone else in this forum in a constant fret over exposure to OTHER sources of mercury (besides the obvious from dental amalgam)? I had my amalgam removed and am going through detox, but I have a TERRIBLE time worrying about further possible exposures - for example, I bumped a small clock from Wal - Mart onto the floor (didn't break) and then started worrying that maybe it contained mercury and that it was contaminating my house....or is this anxiety / OCD just from the mercury detox itself? Can anybody relate to this? Russ, do you live in a constant fear you might be reexposed somehow - I do....just trying to figure out if it is mercury detox-induced OCD/anxiety or rational? Thanks for the insights...

Oh yes, and its got worse since i had my fillings out. For example, i was putting up a picture and the picture wire left black stains on my fingers, so i scrubbed and scrubbed my hands until it was gone, but i still worried incase it had gone through my skin. It sounds silly but i am paranoid of wearing earings, even real gold just incase it affects me, there are lots of other things aswell but i cant think of them, i think its because i am so ill i dont want to get worse. I take Algin, it absorbes metals so that makes me feel like im protected in a way.

yes i get the same thing> it"s so bad that when i feel worse around something or someone< i begin to think that they have used something containing mercury< or in my nephew"s case< he was wearing light up shoes and i found out they can contain mercury< so i flipped out>

on top of this< i"m paranoid because each time i come back from a visit to any dental office< i become repoisoned< so now i"m terrifie that a building i will walk into might have been an ex dental office or dental office might be close by to where the area might contain mercury

i know exactly how you feel believe me> it"s very natural to feel this way because the suffering mercury enduces can be tremendous and your mind does not forget< so you get a kind of alarm response at any possible remote exposure< even if it seems ludicrous to others>

Do you have other OCD symptoms? It does sound like mild OCD (chronic is where the person has to do rituals). Within 2 years of getting amalgam as a child, I had chronic OCD.

That said, you may have something of post-traumatic-stress syndrome aswell. One thing that often isn't discussed is the psychological trauma of what we're all going through, with having to cope with having been poisoned by dentists/medical professionals we trusted and all the health consequences, the lost years to mercury, and family or friends not believing us or wanting to talk about it. In that way, it's a natural reaction to develop a fixation/obsession with mercury because of the trauma.

Mercury can cause OCD and anxiety problems.

I relate to what you say as it's happened to me, and not just on mercury. I worry about germs and other things that might contamination me or my house, and it's not easy.

I think a person can have OCD from mercury, but being paranoid about mercury exposure is because of the untold suffering certain people have endured, even from minimal exposure. This then causes extreme fear of any future exposure, which I think is rational under the circumstances. To others it would seem over the top, or irrational, but for me? If I had listened to my paranoia more often retgarding mercury, I may have savedmyself from becoming repoisoned by going to see a dentist a few months back, whom I trusted. His office was supposedly fixed with a sophisticated extraction system, all designed to reduce or eliminate mercury vapor from his environment. I went in for consultation, evaluation (I do not have amalgams) and I was repoisoned, I'm now living in a stupor with suicidal thoughts daily, constantly afraid, so ill I can hardly function anduanble to even feed myself properly.

I found its best to not be overly obsesive as it will just cut into the already reduced lifestyle I have. As far as OCD I like to play segments of songs over and over. I can make a 3 min song last 20 mins, however I only do this alone. I am obsesive about certain stuff when I fly. (I am a pilot) Yes, thats right, a pilot, and you have no idea how much this bull**** has hampered my career as I pick and choose when I fly based on how I feel, and almost always fly with another pilot.

hi! since getting all my metals out of my mouth this past September, Ive had a healthy caution to any heavy metal exposure in my daily life. Not just mercury- but also aluminum, teflon and lead. I no longer use teflon pans-- I no longer use a microwave, but cook in a toaster oven with glass pyrex., and when handeling metal tools at work, I wear rubber gloves so that the lead in the metal rubs off on the gloves and not my palms.

Not that i get paranoid over all this- but ive realized its good to have a healthy caution when possible. These metals build up in the body-and the skin is one of the largest organs that can absorb toxins.

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Actually, I wouldn't say fear so much as concern.

I'm constantly wondering if the anti-fungal they use on new countertops use mercury as the active ingredient. It is the active ingredient on many agricultural anti-fungals. How humans have allowed humans to spray poison on their food for so long amazes me.

I also moved downwind of a coal-burning power plant a couple years ago and I have started experiencing mercury symptoms for the first time since my amalgams were taken out in July of 2000.

For this reason (among others), I am constantly wondering how much vapor I'm being exposed to. In fact, I will soon be renting a meter and taking reading around my properly, in my house and around town. I'll post my results on this forum.

Concern is good, but I would try not to allow it to cause fear because that only weakens your immune system, among other things.