Hi Diane,

I don't know why. I'm not sure if it's a case of just sensitivity either. I think it's got more to it than that. I think it has to do with immune status, overall toxic load, ability to excrete mercury (some tend to retain it), as to whether it's going to cripple a person, or not be noticed as much (though it often catches up with people later on, and/or when something else happens to them and their immunity).

Mercury is a insidious silent poison and is often not noticed for a long time that anything is happening, which is why, by the time symptoms show up, the person maybe seriously seriously poisoned to where even if they get the amalgams out, they take years to recover and detox.

Some people can work with mercury and seem fine, others cannot even enter a dental office itself without becoming affected. Some dentists i've heard have had to leave their job because they became so sensitised to mercury that they could no longer enter a dental office....

I had no idea you worked as a dental hygienist!!!! I would not go NEAR a job that entailed working in a dental office. Amalgam is either being placed into mouths or it's being removed, either way the air of a dental office (even ex dental office) is contaminated and can contribute to a person' toxic levels of this stuff considerably, even long after they have quit the job. Sorry Diane, but this is likely not helping your situation. And the fact you have worked as a dental assistant for 25 years previously? It is not surprising you are struggling as you are. They did a survey in new zealand with ex dental nurses and it seems, without exception they all struggled with some serious health problems, all very simlar to eachother and I think that entailed reproductive issues as well.

I would get out of that profession and stay away from it if at all possible. Some people cannot even go in for a check up without becoming further toxic, due to the mercury vapor in the air of the dental office. I know a guy that was chelating himself and starting to heal who got poisoned again from walking into a dental office (even though he made sure it was a biologic one). He had to chelate again at lower levels until he could build back up to where he had been.

One visit to a dentist can cause havoc on me. I went into a dental office one day (biologic) and only spent about an hour or so (consultation) and came out of it poisoned. I had wheezing in the lungs, uncontrollable giggling, and then depression and then severe itching and rashes in the face. I had to use DMSA to try and get the stuff back out of me, and thankfully it did help.

Yet other people have no such issues. It is sensitivity yes, but it is also tolerance of it depending on many things, genetics and all the above that I mentioned. I cannot readily eliminate it unfortunately and tend to hold onto it, which is, no doubt why it built up in my tissues and organs for years and left me severely and chronically poisoned. It was very very tough to get this stuff back out of my tissues. horrible experience and the withdrawal and detox from mercury is almost worse than the actual poisoning of it (that's how it was for me). Detoxification can be quite agonising, but it is worth it in the end.