Hi

I read about the symptoms of mercury toxicity and I just knew that that was what I had. I've had OCD, and depression and just recently I've found out that I'm getting some new symptoms of mania that just makes me want to end it all. I don't have any mercury fillings and I have never had them although I have been vaccinated with Thimerosal at birth and at age 5. Is it still possible that my symptoms are mercury related even though I have never had them all my life but they appeared after a bad viral infection a few years ago??

I've also become very self-conscious as of late and I do not understand why.

My budget has become rather tight which is why I put off any sort of chelation program up until now. But I've decided that I'll try "One last thing" just in case it could save my life...

I verified with my dentist that I have no amalgam fillings whatsoever. How do I go about getting rid of the excess mercury in my body?? ANd what is the most cost effective?

I've read about zeolite and it would be great and a miracle if it works. But I have not seen or read about ANYONE who has reduced their levels of mercury with it.

I've read about LL's magnetic clay baths but their shipping costs are through the roof to this part of the world. But if this alone will help me then I'm willing to give this "one last thing" a shot.

Bottom line... What should I do???

I really can't do chelation therapies that last months because I'll probably off myself before then.

Is there ANYTHING I can do that's quick and effective?

I just have to add that it was stated that the baths can detox you within 4- 8 weeks. Has anyone tried this?? Is this true?

have you had any kind of test done that makes you sure its toxic poisoning you said you had a viral infection do you know what it was. Metal toxicity can cause the symptoms you describe but i was just curiou to know what has brought you to this conclusion

ps sorry forgot to ask have you got any physical symptoms and if so what are they keep in touch

I've been dealing with this problem for a while now and I've been on a Qx machine which picked up mercury toxicity... How do I treat it. I'm anxious to know..

I have a candida overgrowth. But all my physical symptoms seemed to vanish when I started taking care of my health about 6 months ago.Although I seem to have all the emotional symptoms associated with elevated levels of mercury.

i too have candida overgrowth most of us on here do what is a qx machine sorry not heard of it

It may have been the virus that activated the mercury in your body. Did you have any fillings in your baby teeth..and are you absolutely sure that you have no silver colored fillings or crowns in your mouth...or root canals either, sometimes dentists use mercury in root canals.

Following a candida diet will help chelate the metals....eating lots of greens, eggs, cilantro, raw onions and garlic and slow cooked legumes will all assist in pulling metal from your body.

And avoid dairy and gluten and sugar at all costs, they will clog your colon andl feed yeast and methylate more mercury deeper into your tissues...methylated mercury is much more dangerous than the inert mercury.

There is no quick fix for this affliction, if you try and remove it too fast, and your elimination channels are not able to excrete it efficiently, it could go to your brain and make you crazy or even kill you.

I have heard the baths are good, but I have my doubts if anything can move out all the mercury in 4-6 weeks. Go slow and do lots of research, I almost went out of my mind by taking an over the counter concentrated garlic extract...I learned my lesson the hard way.

The best advice I can give you is to do the diet, eliminating the candida will help your moods immensely and give the mercury no more places to lurk. The body builds yeast colonies to act as a buffer for the mercury and the mercury hides in those colonies instead of being eliminated. And the diet alone will help to flush out the metals. Then when your finances are better, get some professional help from a good naturopath who is experienced in these matters. In the meantime research and read and don't get sucked in by the quick fixes...there are tons of scams on the internet.

You can find a great colon cleanse and good recipes and food lists for the candida diet at wholeapproach.com...it helped to save my life.

Best luck,
Sandi

just thought do you have any tattoos these also contain mercury, by the way my illness also started with what i thought was a really bad virus after visiting a private hospital i was told i had mercury poisoning but also epstein barr virus and cytomegla virus because my whole immune system has crashed. i have just had my 11 alagams removed and am feeling really bad. i too went through a few months of feeling physically much better although the mental symptoms were still aproblem then they returned with avengence. i dont understand this illness at all but believe me i really do understand how you are feeling mentally im there every day and some days are so hard to get through. where do you live i know its so hard but keep intouch with the forum its kept me alive on many dark days. i think you should post russ and ask his advice if you feel you can you are not alone with these thoughts and feelings

Yes mercury can cause suicidal thoughts. You can have a one of exposure to mercury and be poisoned from it. Depending on where the mercury went, it may remain where it is until it is chelated out.

There are a lot of reasons why the mental impact of mercury can be as bad as it is. Not just the direct effects of mercury, but by the indirect effects from it messing things up in your body but also making you suseptible to many other problems (viral infections, yeast infections, allergies etc).

You can be suicidal also from the fact you could have candida as well as mercury. Candida is a yeast infection and will add to the mercury toxicity and cause it's own problems on its own, let alone combined with mercury.

First of all, if I were you? I would get on a candida diet FAST. This means eliminating all sugar, all yeast and all gluten from your diet. (gluten is found in grains like wheat, rye, barley, oats). You may also need to limit your fruit intake and milk (or eliminate them for a while), due to their natural sugars. This means limiting potatoes also because of the starch.

It may sound annoying and rather extreme at first, but this alone can help a great deal in symptoms and is crucial for most mercury toxic people. Most of us have high yeast levels in our body because our immune system, due to being poisoned is not able to keep the yeast at a reasonable level. IF you follow this diet, your body will have some chance of reducing the levels of yeast and can allow for symptom improvement. For some? it can make a DRAMATIC difference.

To give you an example - I have had mercury poisoned for years. I did not know about mercury at the time, but did feel poisoned. I suffered from severe depression and suicidal thoughts all the time. I ate like anybody else and never attributed any of my symptoms to candida and didn't know it existed. I was put on many antidepressants and nothing worked, I just suffered side effects. Finally, when all else failed I was put on a candida diet. I did not enjoy this at all and at first I felt very ill on it. Many toxins began to shift and move out of my body and I had some headaches and other symptoms. I stuck with it regardless, but had cravings for sometime. Finally once the yeast was starved, it began to die and my body disgarded it. I improved dramatically from this diet and my depression lifted, suicidal thoughts literally disappeared.

Although I still had symptoms of mercury, I was able to eliminate some symptoms and lessen others and coped far easier.

Sadly, nowadays? I have had things happen in recent years that have heard me badly and my immune system is rock bottom (viral infections, cavitations in jawbone and other issues). So I don't get the same improvements, though the diet for me is still crucial.

If you don't do the diet, you will be worse than you have to be and won't know what is doing what. This is one avenue that you have control over. You may not have control over the mercury, but you do have control of diet.

Do not end your life, give your body a chance to have some of the burden taken off it. It may not be miraculous, but it might be enough to improve you.

I would also purchase a book called "Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment", by Andrew Hall Cutler. You can get this off the internet. This is a book I would recommend to anybody with what you have. He goes through all of the problems mercury can cause, what it does, where it goes in the body and what to do about it. Also talks about suicidal thoughts and there are suggestsions in his book about depressions and all these things and what can be taken. Goes into detail about that.

Chelation is a very wise thing to do. If it's done safely. Some symptoms can be controlled and improved as you are chelating.

But this book has pretty much everything in it. The only thing missing is the candida diet, which SHOULD have been mentioned as it is essential.

If you're already doing the diet, then I would read this book and find out what you can do to help these persistant symptoms.

I wish I could help you more. I know how you feel, I suffer this nearly all the time and am on the edge almost continually. I hope you can hang in there and not feel too overwhelmed, but see if you can do some of these things.

(yes you can also start to reduce the mercury in your body/brain. The book mentions how to go about this also). I can outline for you if you don't wish to get the book, but it has so much else in it about what to do when depressed/suicidal and all sorts of things to do and take.

I second all of that!!!!

HI

Thanks again for your concern. It really helps to know that there are other people out there going through the same thing and winning the fight against mercury toxicity.

I have been on the anti-candida diet now for four months now and it has improved my symptoms greatly but I still need to chelate the remaining heavy metals from my system.

I am REAAALLY curious about the baths or the zeolite. They seem to work in theory but I just wish that there was someone out there who has had tried them already specifically for mercury toxicity.
The site where I read about them is supposed to be very reputable. It seems like an answer to my prayers...

You stated that your illness was triggered by a virus as well. It is my belief that all toxins/heavy metals can create a state of immune dysregulation leading to a very increased risk of infection, and autoimmune conditions.

Besides the fact that Mercury interferes with the regulation of certain enzymes etc. we must also be aware of the autoimmune componenet present in many "mental health" disorders. Just google OCD, Manic depression and schizophrenia and Autoimmune diseases and you'll see a number of studies which have linked "mental illness" to the fact that your body is attacking your own brain.

People have had drastic reduction in their symptoms after using treatments specifically for autoimmune condtions. THis could be the link that we are looking for.

But I can't stress enough... I NEED to know whether these baths work or not. Because If they do, it should become common knowledge amongst the users of this forum.

Maybe even the zeolite but I am a bit skeptical about that one.

I was healing from mercury toxicity, but yeah I did get a bacterial infection in 2003 that damaged me permanently. all because I used an infected mascara (would you believe it). Started only with an eye infection, then spread into the brain and rest of my body (I actually walked off balance and had trouble writing and talking for a while, I slurred my words). So it was incredible how it happened. I can assume that it was a potent bacteria (all because I was watering my mascara down with plain tap water, which apparently you should NEVER do).

From there, I suffered with continual symptoms of a virus type infection and anytime I exercised or did anything, the symptoms flared.

Then, from there? I had two dental composites redone again and wisdom teeth removed. That finished me off completely and I stopped detoxing mercury and have remained permanently ill since.

Even though I chelate, my body does not respond. So not sure if it's cavitations, or incompatible dental materials that were put in. It's all a mess and very confusing. But certainly, I no longer go forwards in whatever I do.

Also, sometimes most of the mercury can end up in a person's brain and very few chelating agents can pass the blood brain barrier and remove mercury from this organ. lipoic acid is one that can be used, but has to be used once the blood/tissue levels of mercury are reduced, in case it takes MORE mercury with it into the brain on it's way there.

So right now. I'm not sure what's wrong, but am trying DMSA for a while and so far nothing is happening. So may try lipoic acid very soon.

At the moment I have just had a flu virus hit me and things are even worse. So I'm a complete mess.

Glad you're on the diet. Sorry that it's not doing more for you, but glad there is "Some" symptom improvement in certain areas. Obviously you need desperately to chelate the mercury out. If it's brain mercury you have? You will need to use alpha lipoic acid to improve your symptoms.

But it's risky if you use it too early on after a recent mercury exposure. But otherwise, it can be used and it can be used with or without DMSA. An ordinary dose is about 25 mg and it's taken every 3-4 hours around the clock (non stop, even at night) for about 3 days every week.

IF symptoms are too much. dose should be reduced to tolerance. Some take as little as 6 mg. But it's annoying because you have to split the capsules up.

Hey there

I've had a similar experience to you because after I had my wisdoms removed then things all seemed to go downhill from there until I started taking care of my health properly and went on the candida diet. Did a parasite cleanse. Used my friends zapper machine but I can feel that there is something that I still need to do. I am going to invest in the LL's magnetic clay baths and see where it gets me. But it's gonna take a little while to arrive and then I'll still have to see how it goes. But PLEASE, if there is anyone out there who can advise me on these baths or perhaps the zeolite then I would be forever grateful.

Since you haven't had amalgams, maybe you are like me and just have certain genetics which causes any exposure to mercury to accumulate (I never had amalgams either). For your mood, try avoiding MSG, try it for a week. I am normally a cheery person but MSG always puts me in a dark mood and makes mercury symptoms worse. MSG is in canned soups, gravy, frozen meals, fast food.... look for monosodium glutamate, "autolyzed yeast extract" or "modified food starch" in the ingredients.

As for the clay baths, I have tried them. I felt they were amazingly effective to stir up mercury, but I can't tell if they helped get the mercury out of the body or detox through the skin. Maybe a genetic bottleneck for me. I always took them with DMPS chelation, to help clean things up.

I was depressed and suicidal for most of my life since childhood. When my amalgam fillings were removed in July of 2000, that all changed.

The following emotionally-related symptoms disappeared:

shyness

fear of the dark (I didn't have a terrible fear of the dark, more of a fear that someone was there or something bad was going to happen)

fears that something bad will happen while driving

fear of authority

fear of confrontation

inability to make a relational commitment

unable to trust myself

depression

inability to concentrate most of the time

songs, words and phrases constantly running through my head over and over

horrible short-term memory

inability to multitask (I had to finish one thing before starting another)

frequent suicidal thoughts

and many more.

These are all gone now!

Hey Russ

It's great that you've conquered all of your symptoms of mercury poisoning.

How did you go about chelating all the mercury out of your system? And how long did it take?

Promagma,

I think I might be similar to you in that regard. It is important that we understand the symptoms of mercury toxicity so that we can see what's us and what's just the mercury.

So would you recommend the baths?? People REPORT having amazing results with the baths. And there was also that story of a woman who used three baths and got her highly elevated levels of mercury down to below average.
Which one did you use? Mercury deotx 1 or 2?