Oh Sunshine, talk to me about this. Do you feel it may be or is quite probable that this is mercury related? When I first started having my serious symptoms (that lead me to believe something was REALLY wrong with me), was in 2003, when I was pregnant with my son. I attributed my sciatic nerve pain, and hip trouble with the fact that in 1996 I had been in a car accident, and hurt my back. Although I TOTALLY recovered from that, I concluded that something must have happened in my pregnancy that irritated my old injury. It was worse than sciatic nerve pain. I couldn't sit, stand, sleep....we were trying to move and pack boxes, and I just screamed in pain, trying to sit on the floor and pack things up. No matter what I did, I was in utter pain. This is also the time all of my mercury symptoms really started to show, all at once, instead of the subtle signs throughout the years. I had a really hard delivery, and after he was born, I felt crippled. The major pain was gone, but my joints all felt "out of whack". I never felt right again. I got pregnant again, 9 mo after my son was born, and it was not planned. I would not have planned one that soon. I went through the same thing, being pregnant with her. My point is, I'm STILL this way. I was thinking the other day, this has got to have something to do with mercury. My hips/waist is screwed up, and I don't know why. I have had to be super careful since my pregnancy in 2003, if I lift a leg up too high, or step off a step just wrong...I am DONE for the day. It will throw something out, and I will be in pain, until I can sleep it off, or whatever. Sometimes it gets the sciatic nerve going (classic symptoms, like pain from the middle of my butt cheek and down the thigh and leg), and it's excruciating. When I go to bed, I have to wriggle around under the covers, trying to "adjust" my hips, so I am not in pain and can go to sleep. Does this make any sense? Like they are out of joint....I don't get it.

I started going to a chiropractor in November. I was sure this would help things. It made me feel like I walked a little straighter, and that felt good BUT it did NOTHING for this problem. I stopped seeing him...because I saw him TOO much, and I think it got to the point it did more harm than good. Now I am convinced...somehow, someway it has something to do with the mercury.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />