Yes it is highly likely because mercury is a potent neuro-toxin and is so insidious that often nothing really shows up in testing yet can cause just about any symptom and mimics many illnesses. It also depends on your own particular weaknesses (genetic etc) and where the mercury is and how your body handles it. Some people can get MS symptoms, another may get mental symptoms and be functioning fine in their limbs, but their minds can be in a state. or both. Sad thing about mercury is the suffering it can cause can be so many things all once. Physical, mental and even spiritual suffering.

I hope that for you the amalgam removal will result in eventual recovery. I am glad that you're seeking out a safe removal because the removal itself can be so terribly risky.

You may well have hit on the answer to these issues of yours. Mercury is so often the hidden offender and often missed. Yet it is actually one of the main things people should look at because it is an ongoing constant exposure in direct contact with the mouth, nose and every other areas of the body and brain. Plus the fact there is not much competition to it in toxicity, it's the worst (second only to Plutonium in toxicity). So to my mind it should always be considered in any condition where a person is simply not getting any other answers and testing is not showing the cause.

But how many of us have instead been put through the mill of psychoanalysis, antidepressants, counselling, anxiety groups, blood tests, the whole deal and been labelled pretty much as neurotic or whatever else.

For me, I was put through all of that and finally by a good doctor who actually took an interest in my health (yep believe it or not) and got me on a diet that excluded sugar, wheat/gluten etc. For the first time in my life, after going through initial detox symptoms I improved GREATLY. i was not cured because I was mercury toxic, but nobody knew that at that time. But I was certainly a great deal better and the depression lifted significantly. No antidepressants required!!! This was the best antidepressant I ever had, simply diet alone. It lifted my ongoing headaches and many other problems.

however, I still had the underlining toxicity going on which was still evident in many ways, but relieved by this candida diet I was put on. Typically mercury toxic people have a problem with yeast overgrowth in the body and this can cause many horrible symptoms on it's own and in combo with mercury. That is something to look at whilst you deal with the amalgams because in many cases it can really help your symptoms and aid in healing also.

Though be warned, if you engage on such a diet and if you do have a yeast problem, you will likely go through a temporary withdrawal detox, which is not pleasant, but it is necessary if one wishes for at least some relief from symtpoms. not a cure for mercury but an aid in many cases.

Of course, the cure is the actual dealing with what is really wrong! that also is not easy because of exposure during removal of amalgam, plus the inevitable after dumping of stored mercury you get once all amalgams are gone. That is most unpleasant for many people, but something the body wishes to do to try and heal itself over time.

An excellent book I would recommend you get if you can, is the one advertised on this website. If you look at the top left of the page on this site, you'll see a yellow book. It is called "amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment" by Andrew Hall Cutler, Probably one of hte most valuable books you will ever own with this condition. How to test for it, how to tell if you have it, what symptoms, what mercury does, how it works, how to treat it and what to do to help symptoms. It's not the easiest of reading at times, but of great value.

Cheers.