Hi Jinx, the same thing happened to me. I was doing ok in all my amalgam removals and nearly all had NO protection, just suction. The last removal had all the protection, rubber dam and all yet I swallowed mercury because the stupid assistant was doing something else and not paying attention and the stupid dentist took off the rubber dam without making sure all the scrap amalgam had been removed and down they went, I swallowed all of them.

Then I looked at the dentista nd said "I just swallowed all that removed amalgam" and she looked shocked and tried to hide her concern and said "no worries, it'll just pass out of your system". Well if there were "no" worries, why would they try and protect us from swallowing it in the first place? And why as soon as this occured, I went home with tremors in my mouth and cheeks?

My face changed visually after this also. I had a drawn haggard look, plus headaches, crying and salivating and that was it for me. I had to go through the agony of that.

The ONLY chelation that was safer for me, aside from all the other ones with chlorella which served mainly to mobilise mercury more wildly which actually risks more uptake into the brain, was using DMSA but ONLY the safe way. You can buy it online. THis is how I healed back then. I used it at a dose of about 25 - 50 mg and took it every 4 hours as suggested by a biochemist. You must take it also during the night too, so you have to set an alarm. It is every 4 hours around the clock and you do this for about 3 - 7 days straight. and then you take a break of the same amount of time. You continue this cycle for about 3 months until you reduce your mercury load.

Later if you want, you can add lipoic acid to this regime and take it the same way, alone or with the DMSA to clear Brain and organ mercury. Yes these are helping people and yes it was curing me. I got a viral/bacterial infection later which did great damage to me, my immune system and I believe my blood brain barrier, which is why I am now suffering a permanent type condition which I believe is not so much related to mercury anymore.

I can only tell you what DID heal me. You will look older, because the poisoning does that to you. You will gain your younger features back, they came back with me later one when I got healthier and they will with you, but you will continue to look old sometimes and younger other times, depending on what is happening. This is normal and it's not you and don't ever consider it is.

The feelings of deadness are not real, they are blockages. They will switch back on. I have been there and been through hell on earth and should be dead with what I went through. I can tell you Jinx, you must chelate and you must chelate safely and continue to do so. If you take chlorella or other random things, you could risk more wild mobilising of mercury and this may not be helping matters. some people can do this and get away with it, as they might be stronger and it may work for them. Some get worse.

I have had years of misery and been through just about every detox known and the only one that worked was the four hourly DMSA. It reduces the wild movement of mercury and increases the safer elimination of it, but you must be on an anti yeast regime as you know what can happen if your gut and liver are overloaded with yeast and toxins and you try and chelate at the sametime.

My viral infection and other issues were why I regressed horribly and why I am now permanently sick. Otherwise I was healing from mercury poisoning. No doubt about it and before that, I went through the most horrific mental symptoms that I felt as though I were actually in an internal hell.

I had a violent temper, had no feeling for anybody, totally self preoccupied, withdrawn, no interest in life or other people and the suffering it gave me is beyond description. You cannot possibly tell someone how it feels unless they have gone through it and it's disgusting to endure and I have nothing but sympathy for anybody goingthrough it or the ones who end their lives because of it. It is like nothing I've ever known.

The only things that worked for me and I'm almost impossible to get results with is a strict candida diet and being totally gluten free and consuming healthy fats like butter, extra virgin olive oil, organic coconut oils, using DMSA the way I mentioined, plus some basic supplementation like vitamin C, B complex, zinc, magnesium, vitamin E, possily selenium only if tolerated and milk thistle to support the liver (again only if tolerated).

Also you can have hot baths and use epsom salts to encourage some sweating (only if you can handle that) via the skin. And exercise to tolerance, no more than that. Just walking is enough or some rebounding.

That is pretty much all I can suggest for someone who is overloaded and poisoned and some people cannot even tolerate 25 mg of DMSA, they have to go down to 12.5 mg or lower to start. you can increase as side effects allow. personally I find 25 mg probably the best allround dose to start, but depending on what a person can cope with.