Hi Diane, I admire you for wanting to be with your child! I can see why you would make a sacrifice like that, but I'm just sad that this is the type of profession you are in with your state of health and what impact it could be having on you.

Two days is better than 5 days there, but may still be significant. If I can get sick from only spending an hour or so in a dental office, I cannot imagine a day or more and doing that every week. It can take months to recover from a visit...but perhaps I am more of an extreme case.

Do you mind if I ask what kind of dentist you work for? Biologic? Or mainstream? Even then mercury vapor is unavoidable, as they are either drilling it in, or drilling it out. Either or both, it's contaminating the office. If it's a biologic dentist or metal free, it would likely be safer than mainstream though, because at least they take some precautions and are aware of the dangers, but it is still contaminating their office whenever they remove it from patients mouths and sadly it stays in there for the most part, as it's a heavy metal vapor, not some smoke that can be sucked out. I read somewhere that they did studies on dentists homes and found their houses to have high levels of mercury in them, due to the fact it's taken home from the office on clothes, shoes etc.

It's absorbed into the nasal cavity, into the skin, everything.

I wish you all the best Diane, but I do hope that sometime you will find something else that offers you good money for part time work. If you feel you're coping, that's up to you. I'd be a mess doing that and wouldn't even cope past a week. I don't know how you do it. Maybe the supplements help, but sincerely no matter how many I took, I coudl not offset what it did to me each and everytime I went in there. Algin may help, but usually it helps with any mercury that's made it's way into the digestion area, which is why it's good to take when eating any fish, and/or during and after amalgam removal. I do not know how effective it is when your breathing vapor and having it absorbed into your skin.

I hope your prayers are answered that you will be released from that occupation.