Hi Bex

thanks for responding. You're right - it is unlikely that the metal taste comes from my new fillings, as I have been assured that they are metal-free (the filling is Luxacor - if you're interested - no idea about the fillers and cement etc). And yet ... this metal taste is driving me mad, and making me very paranoid. It came on at the end of Summer 2007, about two months after I'd had the new fillings put in, and also after I had been chelating steadily with DMSA for four months.

First of all I thought it was the DMSA stirring up metals, but the taste still continues after a two week break from chelation. Then I thought it was generally high levels of metal in my body that are being detoxed due to the freeing up of retention toxicity. Then I saw from my most recent hair analysis that my lead has gone up, so the DMSA is pulling that now. Lead can also give a metal taste, and takes longer to chelate. The taste has gone on for so long now and to some extent I have got used to it, but sometimes I catch myself and think 'are you crazy? it must be due to SOMETHING'. And then I come back to the fillings.

I have posted on FDC about it, and nobody else has it. If it was high metals wouldn't other people have it? I have even emailed Andy Cutler about it, and he came back with the old 'are you sure you don't still have amalgams in your mouth?' I am as sure as I can be, and can contact my dentist to get a copy of my panoramic Xray to check. In any case, it wouldn't explain why the taste goes away when chelating, and come back afterwards. If it was pulling metal from any remaining filling, it would get worse DURING chelation, I figure.

You are the only other person I have heard of having this. I had a pronounced six month dump, and felt lousy until I was 12 months post amalgam removal. Then a short time feeling better, and now feeling crappy again, like I'm regressing. I have of course been doing other things, like getting methylation going with folinic acid and B12: this apparently can give a metal taste, but then I had it before I took the methylation supplements, so that's not it.

It is a mystery. In my heart I believe it is the metals coming out, but a small part of me feels the need to get the fillings checked, to lay my mind at rest, and to ensure that I really am not going backwards, simply detoxing very slowly <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Good to hear your experience though, and to know that I am not alone. I have to say that this metal taste is the only aspect of this illness which I can definitely put down to metals - otherwise I would think I am going mad. Did the taste eventually go?

Best
Nicola