Hello,

I can't believe it's taken me so long to come across this website and this wonderful forum, but I'm glad I did. I wonder if it was even meant to be this way. If I'd found a quick and easy answer to what my problem was, I wouldn't have learned everything about health and nutrition that I have.

I still don't know if my amalgams are my problem. I am in no doubt, though, that having mercury in my mouth is not a good thing.

I have had clinical depression for the last 3 years and nothing will lift it. It is worse in the winters and at first I thought I had SAD. I spent a lot of money on light visors and a light box. They weren't a huge help.

Next I came across a site called Radiant Recovery, which gets you to stop eating white flour and sugar. I felt a little better but again it wasn't a huge help.

By now I was having trouble coping with being deeply depressed and having a little girl to bring up. Mummy was usually so fatigued and unmotivated that I had trouble getting out of my chair. So I started a foray into what I saw as my last resort, antidepressants. Not only did they not help, but I discontinued them too quickly and was left with drug damage as well as depression.

I found my way to an online site that gives holistic health advice to people who have been on psychotropic medications, and began learning about diet, nutrition, and supplements. This was a year ago and it radically changed the way I think about these things. I now do my best to follow the Paleolithic Diet, though sugar addiction is still an on/off problem for me. I also take a range of high quality supplements, which I was pleased to find, includes everything recommended here apart from extra selenium, and Algin (which I am working on getting hold of). But even with all these wonderful nutritious changes to my life, the depression still wouldn't lift.

Everyone now seems to think it's a lifestyle thing, that being home with my little girl has made me bored and lonely and depressed. I've thought that for a long time myself. But when the depression struck, I remember being so happy. I'd lost weight, was going to a gym, and was fitter than I'd ever been in my life. Why would depression suddenly strike out of the blue like that?

The only other possibility I could see was amalgam poisoning. I had no amalgams in my teeth until 2 months before the depression began. Then I had 4 all at once. 2 months later, depression. Hmmmm.

Unfortunately, our savings has been drained for quite some time and I have been having issues with trying to get back into employment, it's been difficult. So I've been having the family dentist take my amalgams out. She says, "if they were toxic, they'd be banned." Ummm, yeah. She wouldn't even bother with supplementary air. When she drilled the last filling out, I actually had to request to wash my mouth out, and to my horror I saw a silver trail with gritty bits come out. I know, I know, I am playing a deadly game here, and I would not recommend this apporach to anybody. We just don't have the money for me to see a proper dentist for this and are in debt at the moment, so I can't see when we would. As it is "only" 4 fillings, and I've been on a good supplement regime for a year, I am keeping my fingers crossed that I am not going to get horribly ill. if I do I expect I will still be here on this forum and you can say "I told you so."

My final amalgam of the 4 is coming out next week. I have a supplement called Detoxica that I ordered from a small business in Nevada. it's supposed to help boost my glutathione by giving me its 3 amino acid precursors. A holistic dentist in London uses it and recommends it.

So that's my story so far. I hope I'll be able to come back here and say I'm starting to feel better in the not-too-distant future. I can't be sure that the amalgams have been the cause of the depression. Physical symptoms have been lacking for the most part, and they can also be connected with depression just as easily as with heavy metal poisoning. I'd be pleased if I've finally found the answer though. It's been an incredible journey of learning and enlightenment.

I'm looking forward to reading more on this forum. It really is just what I've been looking for, and it seems very supportive and informative.

Thanks for listening,
Linda.

Hello Linda and welcome to our forum.

I've read your post and it's seems that you are a candidate for mercury toxicity, but you already know that. You may already know that depression and fatigue are two of the most common symptoms of mercury toxicity.

I suffered from 17 physical ailments and numerous emotional issues until my amalgams were removed in July 2000. It changed my life dramatically. if you're interested, here's my story:

My Mercury Story

This story does not cover the emotional transformation that I went through but does deal with the physical ailments in detail. I will be writing an account that includes emotional changes that I went through soon.

Not only does mercury change brain chemistry, it interferes with the production of Thyroid hormone (T-3) and blocks the utilization of iodine. This combination of action can cause depression, weight gain, fatigue, and other symptoms.

Mercury also interferes with countless other body process and destroys nerve cells. It's one of the most toxic substances on earth and can slowly and methodically destroy life.

Pharmaceutical companies are currently making tens-of-billions treating "diseases" that are actually caused by mercury toxicity. My research revealed that they already know this--as hard as that may be for normal, emotionally-healthy people to believe. This type of research eventually leads you to the conclusion that "monsters" are running many or most large corporations.

I want to provide you with some links that may help you with you research :

Mercury Articles

Personal Mercury Stories

My Mercury Story

Smoking Tooth Video

FDA Position on Mercury

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration


I hope these links help.

We also have a great group of very knowledgeable people on this forum who are happy to help with questions so feel free to ask.

Thanks again for coming... and Welcome!

Thanks for the welcome Russ. This really is a wonderful forum. I've enjoyed reading the posts and replying to some, but it is also distressing to see how much serious illness has been caused by putting poison in people's mouths.

I've been asking myself, why wasn't it obvious? Even after I started finding the truth out about the drug industry and pharmaceuticals, I still put the issue of amalgams on the back burner as one of those "iffy" things. Only now, after a year of trying to educate myself pretty intensively about health, do I seem to be in a position where I am able to say, mercury in the mouth = poison. The beliefs we grow up with can be so strong and pervasive, and one of the things we are told is that amalgams are safe. "They" tell us and "they" are the experts.

I'm also involved in a dispute with my husband right now because I don't want my daughter to have any more vaccinations and it's hard to try to get him to understand from my point of view. I've been looking into thimerosal, and found an article on the Mercola site about a high-level meeting that was convened for the sole purpose of reassuring the public that vaccines are safe, regardless of the actual facts. And the facts were, that the discussion that went on behind closed doors brought out evidence that disturbed one panel member so much that he said he would not give a thimerosal-containing vaccine to his granddaughter. Yet, he quite happily went off and told the public that it was safe.

So yes, this is the sort of lying that is going on, and I'm not surprised by it because I already knew that the FDA does the same with drugs. My hope is that within my lifetime, the truth will come out in a major way, and medicine and dentistry will change their ways. Future generations will be horrified at what has been done to many of us.

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Hi Veggie Juicer, I also had my amalgams out - and I didnt go to a holistic dentist either- but I made sure to get alot of Vitamin C between visits , used a dental Chelat mouthwash that absorbs even nana-particles of methyl mercury , used Activated charcoal the day of each dental filling replacement visit, asked the dentist to use a rubber dam--- which he laughingly did to humor me.

I also breathed into a fan plugged in my car's cigarrette lighter after each dental visit. Took a shower right when I got home to wash out any mercury vapor from my body, began chelating with chlorella , Algin, Butcher's Broom, Activated Charcoal the day after my last filling was finally replaced.

I reccomend doing an occasional colon cleanse after your fillings are replaced-- because the stray mercury does end up clogging your colon. This way you can purge alot of that mercury out from the colon.

Algin is great to take even now while you still may have some fillings remaining yet.

So far, i'ts been over a year and I have been fortunate to have only slight detox mercury side effects ---which didnt last long. I had 8 metal fillings. Getting them replaced two at a time was the best thing I ever did.

Take care of your immune system while you are getting your fillings replaced because even though mercury is the cause of alot of problems, you can give your body an edge over mercury toxicity by supporting your immune system.

Make sure to increase your magnesium and selenium. Brazil Nuts are a great source of selenium-- just 3 a day do the trick. An Epsom Salts bath-- or even an Epsom Salts foot bath absorb alot of magnesium into the body also.

I found that my body needs fish oils and other oils like Oil of Evening Primrose an Flaxseed oil to help me against depression. I especially need these oils during Menstruation and have read that those who are bipolar also benefit from these oils as well.

VJ,

Thimerosal is only one of the poisons in vaccines. There are many others as well, although not as "poisonous" as mercury, still, they very harmful.

This dispute between husband and wife on this subject is becoming more common these days as women seem to have the ability to grasp these concepts before men do, or perhaps they are more open-minded.

At any rate, I would highly recommend that anyone attempting to convince a spouse, friend, or family member to consider the truth about vaccines get this video and show it to them:

Vaccines: The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

This is three hours long, covers all childhood vaccines, and is taken completed from medical literature. It shows how the CDC "position" on vaccines is only supported by ancillary medical "submissions" that the organization has disclaimed as NOT being part of their official position, yet, these disclaimed papers are the only ones you hear about in the mainstream media. Furthermore, the real medical literature Tenpenny exposes shows vaccines as effective ONLY when tested against a ZERO baseline; In other words, the vaccines tested don't do a thing except harm you with their poisonous ingredients, and, YES, this is admitted in the honest medical literature that she exposes.

The information is amazing and I wish every parent (not to mention doctor) would be required to watch this before having a child.

Anyway, sorry to go on and on. I have been through this with some of my family and it's like pulling teeth to get them to watch anything that violates their existing beliefs. Of course their belief system are derived entirely from mainstream literature. Frustrating. Amazing.

All the best.

Boldyloxx, thanks for all the advice. I've looked at a lot of past posts here now and see your name quite a bit. It's great to hear you've done so well.. I'm not sure how/where I'd get a colonic here in the UK, have to look into that. I've been doing this on my own because I don't trust my doctor to believe that mercury could be a problem. I don't trust him anymore, period. I was poisoned by the antidepressants he kept giving me. If I knew I could get his help in doing all this on the NHS I would, but I don't think that's very likely.

I do have a good supplement regime, I've been on it for over a year. Just recently added vitamin E and selenium as per the advice here. They'll do me good I'm sure. And I take 9 grams or more of vitamin C every day. My immune system isn't in great shape and I seem to need that much.

I've posted some comments on the forum about how my chelation is going. It's really hard to get a feel for it because the underlying depression is there and it's got worse lately, possibly due to amalgam removal, possibly due to SAD (it's been dismal here for weeks), goodness knows. I was hoping to take the "natural" route but I'm going to give DMSA a go starting at 25mg, do the 4-hour dosage thing, see if it helps. I still don't know how much of a problem mercury is for me. I could be depressed because of my life circumstances.

Russ, victory!! My husband has agreed that the best thing for our daughter is not to have any more vaccinations. We can't erase what's been done already, but we can make the right decisions from this point on. It took an awful argument though, and him threatening to walk out. But I gather it was more due to my attitude that I knew what was right and was making him feel disempowered in decisions regarding our daughter. It's aggrevating but at least we've got it settled now, and I know how to press more diplomatic buttons in the future. I still have to convince him that his diet is going to make him ill, but that's another issue entirely, and I think the most I can do there is get well myself and set a good example.

I'm aware of Dr. Tenpenny's work. I did loads of research on vaccines and learned so much. It may sound odd but I'm thankful for my illness, because I've had blindfold after blindfold ripped off me, and each new layer of the truth has stunned me. I wouldn't have learned the truth about vaccines, and for that matter I wouldn't have learned about the importance of diet and supplements, if I hadn't been damaged by the antidepressant and joined a healing forum, and I wouldn't have taken the antidepressant if light therapy had worked, and I wouldn't have done light therapy if I hadn't been depressed . . . it's been quite an odyssey LOL.

This is a fantastic forum, I keep learning more and more as I delve around <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Thanks again for the support.

Glad to hear the good news about your daughter. I also understand your gladness about being ill as I share those type of feelings—well, maybe not glad—but thankful to have learned what I did and thankful to be able to share it with others.

All the best and keep us posted on your progress in all these endeavors.

Yes, "glad" is not the word for it . . . "thankful" suits much better. Thanks Russ for the support, and the info you share here.

Hi LindaLou. I followed your link here from EvC and it looks interesting. Thanks for the link. As you know I'm one of the more scarce creos at EvC and one with a unique creo hypothesis on the Biblical record regarding creationist POV. It's after midnight and will likely do some more reading and possibly a few posts when I can find time.

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