Little late, but Happy Birthday Bex! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/celebrategoodtimes.gif" alt="" />

How long before figuring out fillings were making me sick? Just about forever - like 30 years. My fillings were all put in, I think, in my teens. And back then, no one said anything about mercury, and I felt healthy (Although in hindsight, there were signs! Definite signs all the way).

So you get to be like 36, 10 years ago, and things start going south quickly. Little things like dry skin, fatigue in morning, a sense of something wrong, but you are still functional, and your doctor runs tests, and it is all normal.

Time goes by, and you slowly get worse, and at the end, you are getting into skin rashes, anxiety, even panic attacks. Had to switch doctors, and started studying why I was having hypothyroid symptoms. Finally read article on mercury, and had that jaw-dropping experience. And those problems have gone away upon removal, or improved greatly.

Looking back, I was dumb as a rock. Because I had trust that my dentists would have told me, or my doctor would have told me or someone. Oh well, funny my dentist then I think did try to tell me, offhand, but could not because he could lose his license. (Thank-you ADA, and goodbye soon when the <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ithitsthefan.gif" alt="" />!)


TW