it seems that a lot of us are trying to find proof of our mercury toxicity which is only natural well ive had a fecal metal test and was told to get my fillings out Russ now says this is an unreliable test and i have no reason to disbelieve him I've had the Melissa test which showed no sensitivity and yet my dentist said i was, Ive had 2 vega tests which showed completely different reaults and just read someone had the kelmer test which is the dmsa challenge and was told those results are unreliable there seems to be doubts about the hair analysis test and the only one i thought i might be able to rely on was the one i had done in hospital which got lost. it seems we are never going to prove to our GPs that this is a problem as we have no hard evidence and we all know even with this we will be met with scepticism. So i guess were on our own and i for one am going down the lines of trying to put right the symptoms i have i have done a lot of research into the thyroid/adrenal problem and personally i think treatment for this would help a lot of my symptoms. i guess this is the worst part of this illness the guessing and having to try whats best for you maybe one day they'll find something definate

Tracy , i couldnt agree more, it makes this illness even harder that we have no proof of illness, we are on our own.

Tracy, I agree with you, I have been to my Dr with various problems but I have not mentioned the mercury thing cos I just know they would think I'm crackers!! I have had lots of weird symtoms this year from being dizzy,hypoglycemic, not feeling I could breath properly, chest pains etc. I have been to get some of these symptoms checked out at the Dr, i.e. I had an ecg, and I had a camera put down my throat ( not very pleasant!!!) All these tests came back clear (thankfully) but I just know that the mercury thing is the cause of many of this problems and more specifically my adrenal thyroid function. I have been concentrating so much on trying to detox and still not feeling that much better. Then it struck me that I should probably try and concentrate on strengthing my adrenal and thyroid function, instead of thinking (get rid of the mercury, get rid of the mercury!!) (although I should do this too at some point). What I am trying to say is that I think if my adrenal function and thyroid function is better/stronger/improved or whatever then my body will be in a far better position to remove the mercury and I will not feel so weakend by it all. I have tried various things that you can take when still have amalgams in your mouth, ( I still have one under a crown - which I am not removing just now) but every time I try something like modifilan or something, all that happens is I just feel very weak when I take it then I give up.

So in a nutshell I think that if my adrenal thyroid function is better I will be able to use something like modifilan without it making me so weak/hypoglycemic etc.

I wish I had thought about this before, I knew the mercury had hit my adrenal and thyroid function by the symtoms I was getting but I just thought that after a while they would recover, clearly in a lot of us the thyroid and or adrenal glands need nutritional support before they can recover. So anyways thats what I'm going to concentrate on just now and get myself stronger first and foremost. Although I must confess sometimes I am positive and then other times I get sick fed up of thinking about it all the time!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />lizbet

lizbet you sound exactly like me and that endoscopy is awful i think your on the right track thats what dawns doing too

get a blood test for serum mercury, if the amalgams are "leaking down" this would show this. Dont eat any fish for a week before. Mine was 9.7ug/l, I have 11 amalagams and one gold crown. +symptoms.
Hope this helps