I know I am *VERY* toxic. I have at least 17 amalgams in my mouth, that I have had for 14 years. I also have possibly 1 more, from several years prior (I can't remember, the mercury is affecting my memory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />), and a crown that is almost 19 years old. I have just recently went through 2 pregnancies. I have 2 older children, and didn't have much, if any, problems with those pregnancies. With my last 2, I had such bad sciatic nerve pain, that I couldn't sleep, walk, sit, stand...during my pregnancies without excrutiating pain. With my son, which is 2 1/2 now, I developed undetectable gestational diabetes. It didn't show up that I was "dropping sugar in my urine" when they did my urine tests during my pregnancy. That is one way that they tell they need to test your blood sugar. Since my body was all out of whack, I got bigger and bigger. I also had a lot of weird symptoms that I attributed to being pregnant, that I later found out they continued even after his birth. The baby got extremely large, and got stuck in the birth canal. Thankfully, I had a wonderful OB and everything turned out ok. I delivered a 10lb 5oz baby vaginally. It could have turned out much worse.

I was deathly sick at the time of his birth, with some undiagnosed infection that I came up with. They had given me some kind of antibiotic a couple of days before, and I don't think it was working. I was getting sicker, and running a fever when I went into labor. I had projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea (too much information, I know) during my labor. It was incredibly embarassing and painful, and I felt like I was going to die. It took almost a month for my bowels to get any better. I also got a weird ear infection, 2 weeks after I gave birth. My ears were hurting so bad that I cried. They were itchy and bleeding and crusty inside. There was also a clear liquid coming out, but I went to two doctors and they both said I didn't have any ear infection. This went on for months and months (and still does it on occasion).

I breastfed my son for 4 months, and then he didn't want my breastmilk anymore. I was saddened by this, but now that I look back, it was another change in the phase of me getting more toxic, I think <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. It probably made the breastmilk taste different. My son walked and talked incredibly later than other children. He was 18 months old when he finally walked on his own. I had to face a lot of ridicule from my family, because they wanted to blame me for him not walking when he was supposed to. They accused us of carrying him too much, not working with him enough, etc, but that wasn't the case. No one understands my mercury problem, and are very closed minded on the subject. I did not know at the time though, that mercury was the cause of all of this. I have since read that mercury does indeed cause children to walk and talk later than others. He is a perfectly happy and healthy boy now, although he doesn't eat much and is very skinny.

When my son was 9 mo old, I got pregnant again. She was a real surprise. I was still huge from my prior pregnancy (and I still cannot lose any weight, no matter what I try), and so this pregnancy was even harder on me. From the time I found out I was pregnant with her, I felt like I was "poisonous". I was scared to death something would happen to her in the womb, because I knew I was getting sicker. They caught the diabetes in time with her, so I didn't get as big as I could've got. My blood sugar was hard to control, and I started losing my sight. I had terrible night blindness and panic attacks while I was driving. I was scared to go anywhere. I kept praying to God that I would go into labor early with her, and I did a little, because I told her while she was in my tummy that it would be safer for her to be born early, that to live inside mommy's poison body any longer. She did come a little early, and this delivery was very easy. I breastfed her for 10 months though, because I figured she already had been exposed in the womb, and I was hoping there were still enough benefits in the breast milk that would help her.
She had terribly dark yellow poop. No one seemed to really think anything of it, but I did. Breastfed babies usually have a light colored stool, and hers was dark and acidy looking. She ruined almost all of her clothes, because everytime she pooped it went everywhere and it stained like DYE. I just couldn't understand her lethal poopies, but the drs didn't really act like it was unusual. Once I finally transitioned her to more formula than breast milk, her stool started getting normal. When she was finally totally on formula, her stools were completely normal. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> It was then, that I realized the mercury must have done it, and I feel bad now because I exposed her to more of it. She is developing faster than my son did, though. I had heard about mercury poison from fillings several years prior, but I didn't think it could happen to me. It wasn't until the end of my last pregnancy, that I found infomation on the internet that truly made me believe that I am toxic. Now, I just need to get well, and learn how to chelate my kids.

I am sorry about the novel, but I have always wanted to talk to someone about the affects of mercury on my children.