Well, before I even knew about toxicity from dental amalgam, I'd been battling all my life with odd symptoms. By the time I reached my teens and had braces put on my teeth, that was the last straw.

I had no idea about the toxicity from these metal dental materials and simply struggled with no answers. Even when put on an almost perfect diet by a doctor with improvements that came along, something was still wrong. Though I had improved greatly considering what I had been, I was left with strange symptoms that persisted.

And the interesting thing was, I kept thinking "poisoning" becuase that's how it felt. Yet I could not pinpoint what on earth it could be. I had cold hands and feet, blue nails, and puffiness in the tissues of my legs like water retention. I would cry and salivate uncontrollably without reason and often shook. But the diet helped.

I also could not associate my symptoms with many of the disorders that I was being labelled with like M.E. (chronic fatigue syndrome). Though i was tired, it did not feel like that at that time. Only when oneday I was looking through a magazine where it had an article on mercury toxicity from amalgams, did I look at the symptoms and for the first time in my life, I had seen an almost identical list of what I experienced on a page in front of me.

I set about stupidly and rushed and started getting amalgams out. I had no protection during this. At any rate, over the years after amalgam removal, my body started to dump the stored mercury and I went through pure utter hell on earth. IT was obvious to anybody that my body was going into intense detox. I often tasted and stunk of metal while this was going on.

I then improved. Though I'm ill now for other reasons, my previous experience with amalgams and removal and detox, left me in no doubts that mercury was the culprit and amalgams were the source. Everything previous to that did not bring about any cure, just "control" of symptoms.

There are people whose bodies only need a small amount of mercury and they can become very sick. They are also the ones that do not tend to eliminate it properly like me. This is what leads to poisoning. But because it's gradual and insidious, often the person will not pinpoint this as the problema nd they will simply go from one doctor or one pscyhiatrist to another, being put on one medication or another and getting nowhere in the process.