Hi Clare, it's not abnormal to get worse after amalgam removal. It may be the second stage of suffering, where the mercury is beginning to come out of you because there is no more amalgams in your mouth.

When there are not anymore amalgams, your body is no longer getting the daily intake and having to store it continually, now that it's not having to do this, it can begin to offload it's storage and this feels even worse than having the amalgams in your teeth.

Andrew Hall Cutler, biochemist, talks about this and says you can sometimes control this with using a chelating agent, like DMSA (available online) and taking it in a way to keep the blood levels of it even, so that it ensures safer mercury removal. This is taken every 4 hours (as Dawn mentioned) around the clock (yes even throughout the night). It must be done for a few days at a time and a break of the same amount of time you spent on it. E.g. 3 days on, 3 days off and so forth.

This helps to grab hold of the mercury that is dumping into your blood stream and making you feel more poisoned than ever. You may have to start at a very low dose as Dawn mentioned, like 6 mg, but a good dose is about 25 mg to start and if you find it's too much, you can lessen it, if you find you cope fine and want to increase it, you can, but you must make sure that you do not increase the dose until you have done about 4 chelating rounds of that dose to make sure.

Also to take a lot of antioxidants, as the mercury will be using them up in a big way. Andy mentions taking things like vitamin C, vitamin E, magnesium, B complex, zinc, and milk thistle. You can also take selenium if you want.

The candida diet is also essential, without that, the rest may not do much good, as you will be suffering both from mercury and candida at the sametime and the candida diet will starve the candida and help you detox, it can help you heal and can help you begin to absorb the supplements. It's the foundation of everything else. To my mind, this comes first, the rest is secondary.

Hal Huggins says that diet destroys more recoveries than anything else, he has a big point.

The key, according to him is to eat things like meat, eggs, butter, vegetables (no potatoes due to high starch/natural sugar), no fruit, no sugar, no honey, no milk. Having things like plain acidophilus yoghurt, raw nuts (no cashews, peanuts or walnuts though).

It's plain, but for some of us, it is the only way we can survive. Using extra virgin olive oil in salads and cooking is very good, as well as butter and organic coconut oils. These are the essential fats, and they help you to heal.

Drinking just plain water and/or herbal tea is fine. Skip caffeine etc.

Even if you try this for a couple of weeks or so and see what happens. But again, this is just some advice and you have to do what feels right for you.