Hi Nina, I'm sorry to hear this. It has happened to me too. I was bedridden for weeks for a massive load of mercury release and could hardly eat.

I do not think it would be wise for you in your state right now to rush in and go and have local anaesthetic put into you. You may need to wait until things settle again.

Were you given any kind of mercury detoxes? This can REALLY do it and you would be wise not taking anything that is going to stir up the mercury inside you! Some people can handle it just fine, others cannot and it can cause you to become severely ill and crash.

If I was you, I would probably take vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, milk thistle and selenium (in the form of selenomethione and not too high doses to start) and algin to help mop up any mercury that's floating around in areas the algin can grab onto.

Nature's Sunshine is the brand of Algin I would get. These I would say are kind of emergency supplements. But again, start at a level and work up to see if you tolerate them.

Diet is of upmost importance. Yeast can overgrow massively in a toxic situation and cause many of the symptoms as well as mercury. So that toxins may continue to circulate and make you ill. You need to be on a strict NO sugar, no yeast and no gluten/wheat diet. You may even need to limit or eliminate all fruit and grains too temporarily until things are under more control.

This is what I would do NOW. So your body can better process the toxic overload. I had to do this, I was so sick that my gut and liver could not handle the extra load and toxins went around and around. The diet helped reduce yeast and improved gut and liver, so they could process toxins easier.

Antioxidants are VERY important because mercury uses them up and you require them for protection and help during toxicity. And the algin may help mop some of this up.

Then, if/when you start to gain some stability, I would look at getting the tooth removed. I am shocked that no "holistic" dentist can help you????? Why are they not offering to remove the amalgam? Why the tooth?

At any rate, if you have no choice, then I would remove the tooth itself, but request a NON vaso constrictor anaesthetic. Vaso constrictors restrict blood flow to the area, but also in doing this they frustrate circulation to the area and healing and can be a cause in the forming of cavitations (jaw bone infection). Also ask that the peridontal ligament be removed with the tooth (another cause of possible cavitations). These two things are necessary to do to prevent these possibilities.

HOpefully they will do this for you!

Sorry I could not be more help to you, but mobilising mercury with detox agents is not the answer if it's making you much worse!!! I had to use andy cutler's protocol (DMSA every 4 hours) to counteract my reaction to a previous detox attempt. It helped move the mercury out of me and settle things down, but I had no amalgams, so I can't say it's the best move to do this if you still have amalgam in your mouth. Andy does not advise it. But it is the best protocol I have tried!! And can settle reactions too. It can cause detox symptoms as well, but usually at a tolerated level.