Hi Sittingduck, no problem! Yes this has been asked a number of times, which is to be expected and new people join, so it's understandable.

Hmmm, well I'd have to go back in time to when I had my amalgams out and give you an idea of what happened. At the time, after amalgam removal, had you asked me this? Id' have given you a bitter answer of "I REGET I EVER DID IT". Because I did not understand that the recovery from amalgam toxicity is as painful or MORE painful to experience often than the ongoing daily intake of amalgam toxicity.

Strange eh? Well not quite. When the body is being continually poisoned on a low chronic basis, it tends to do what it can to protect itself and stays in that state. Just basically stays in storage mode.

When you remove the entire source of the ongoing poisoning. at onetime or another, the body asserts itself and begins to deal with the storage and goes into detox mode. Everything that was suppressing it, has now gone.

So it is in a sense a long term healing crisis and it can differ for each person, but for most it can be a roller coaster ride towards the ultimute goal of greatly improved health.

I did just about everything wrong that a person could do and I suffered an awful detox crisis, one that was more painful that I can really describe too well. But one that was exacerbated by doing random things that made a bad situation more painful and often unnecessarily. I believe I got it right in the end.

The healing crisis for me lasted about 2 years or so. I could have shortened it and made it easier on myself, had i done thing better from the start. But...I did not.

I came out of it and realised that the best things I did were diet, supplement support (quality ones), exercise (moderation, treadmill walking - rebounding on a mini trampoline). Hot baths with epsom salts or baking soda and sea salt. And finally a studied, safe, logical protocol (andrew hall Cutler's).

Even if you do everything "perfectly" (if there is any such thing), unfortunately you cannot expect to get well without healing symptoms. How extreme they are, depends on how toxic you are, how long you've been poisoned and how well you've done everything.

But in the end, I was truly healing from this condition and a much happier person. My sickness these days is not so much related to mercury, but unfortunately viral/bacterial infection, which has actually been worse (not something I can "detox" from anymore).

Perhaps the mercury made me more suseptible to it, I do not know. I was poisoned for so many years of my life, I would not be surprised if that's what allowed a bacteria to get in an literally take over my body!

So you must be very careful with this sickness, not to take silly chances on things.