<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/twothumbsup.gif" alt="" /> Congrats Vasilioskn!!!

Sounds like the removal went very well and things were done correctly. I used to resume the vitamin C right after removal. It helps with the toxins you get exposed to during removal and the anaesthetic also, as the body needs to clear those out and for some people they need all the help they can get.

I hope that the rest of your removals goes just as well (I don't see why they shouldn't). As for the worsening of symptoms? It is different for everybody, you can't predict what will happen. It depends how much mercury you have stored in your tissues and organs too. I had a huge accummulation of it because I retain toxins strongly anyway, so you can only imagine! Perhaps that tendency was caused by the mercury in the first place. I hear it can alter the way the body works and mess things up.....so the things that are required to eliminate toxins, maybe unbalanced by the mercury itself. Or I was already like that in the first place, who knows?

There is a mercury dump that is spoken of and it can hit a person post amalgam removal anytime. Typically it's apparently about 6 months post removal. With some people it can occur earlier (e.g. 3 months), some it can occur much later (one year or more, like it did with me). Some people get worse immediately following the removal, then improve and go into a kind of remission...then they can get hit by the dumping stage later on unexpectedly. Some feel better immediately and may remain much improved from then on. Some feel better immediately and then get hit by symptoms later on and go through a roller coaster ride....

It is very individual. It is wise to start chelating early on to reduce as much mercury as you can before this dump stage hits. There is no telling if you'll go through that or not. I wouldn't worry too much about it at this stage. Just take things step by step.