Hi Tracy, welcome and congratulations on figuring out you got a mercury problem. You should consider yourself very lucky to have discovered it and now you can take steps to cure yourself. 100,000,000 amalgams are placed in people teeths every year. scary. Millions of people will never figure it out. Only the toughest and braves people make it this far<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/twothumbsup.gif" alt="" />


The mercury goes into your body from the amalgams and wherever it sits it screws up whatever it is on. It is important to understand that the mercury does not target one organ…its targets them all. It is not selective; it goes everywhere and buggers everything up to a certain degree, some more than other. The things it damages the most are the detoxing organs…that’s the liver and the kidneys. The job of those organs is to detox you and when they detox you from mercury, which is mega toxic, it damages those organs….so that they do not work properly…if they don’t work properly they cannot do their job properly…so you start struggling…the body is damaged and can’t detox itself and that causes everything to get backed up and even more congested.

Digestion: mercury is excreted via the bowels. Mercury damages the bowels when its in there. Some people think candida is the bodies natural method to protect itself. The mercury is lodged in the candida and not in your body, hereby protecting you. unfort a side effect of this candida protecting also hurts you and causes your digestive troubles, but if the candida was not there the mercury would recirculate into the body and hence damage you more than the candida does. Sometimes there is an overgrowth and there is too much candida and then your troubles multiple. With the detoxing organs all compromised, all working over time, toxins start building up, congestion starts and because your body is constantly fighting the mercury 24 hours a day it does not have the energy to keep everything ship shape…causing even more congestion. Vicious circle kinda thing. Nasty really.

Adrenals and thyroids control your bodies metabolism, when you are mercury poisoned these have to work really hard to keep you functioning. The longer they work at full capacity the quicker they get fatigued, the quicker they fail. I think they also directly get damaged by mercury too, with mercury damaging them (not sure about that). I have my thyroid so I have no idea about what to do about no thyroid, but you seem to know a lot about that anyway. Adrenal and thyroid are extremely common in mercury toxic people, many people are now recommending that adrenal and thyroid support are in place prior to amalgam removal. Adrenals need support before thyroid support. How are your adrenals? Do you support them? it is very important and can make a huge difference to your life.

Virtually every organ I investigate in my body is compromised to a certain extent. Damaged by the mercury or damaged by some part of me not working properly.

I was intolerant to wheat/gluten/dairy/soya/nightshades/tobacco/sulphur foods/all refined foods/all processed foods/all sugars…when I say all refined and processed foods…I really do mean ALL…including white rice. That doesn’t leave very much to eat and for 8 months I could only eat salad, anything else made me extra sick for another 7-10 days. i was extremely ill and malnourished.

But the good news is that my food intolerances are falling away now that I know what is required of me to get better and after the actions I have taken. Gluten is fine, dairy is fine, nightshades fine, tobacco fine, refined and process foods are ok, but I choose not to eat that gunk. Only intolerances remaining is wheat, but other grains are fine, carrots which is still a mystery (maybe because of the sugar?) and I must be careful not to over eat sulphur foods, which is a common mercury problem.


Start? Diet is ultra important and if you have a poor diet healing will be more difficult and take longer.

Ummmm but start from here? Best place to start is the root cause. If you understand the root cause of your troubles you will know what you have to do. You have figured out mercury is a problem, although I assume you are not sure it is the root cause problem. Everything we read says this or that is the root cause….maybe mercury is just like all the other root causes out there? You don’t know and you won’t know until you learn a bit.

I’m gonna borrow a quote from my friend Sunflower (who is another forum member):



If you been reading the forum you will see plenty of references to “Andrew Cutler’s” Book “Amalgam Illness.” It is really really good, I cannot say more strongly how important the book is to your health. You can self diagnose mercury poisoning, you will learn that all your troubles and problems are real and caused by mercury and not imagined, it will tell you how to safely chelate the mercury out and it will give you multiple options for you to investigate and support your body. The cutler protocol is simple and can be written on 2 sides of A4 paper, but the reason the book is long and so good is because it explains everything and gives you lots of thing to do to help yourself support the compromised organs. Everything in that book is specifically related to mercury and mercury compromised bodies. Almost all the other research out there only focus’s on one individual problem at a time. The Cutler book is the best place to start because you will then have a plan of action you can follow. If you think he is wrong, then you are free to chelate in any way you choose…but having that choice is oh so important.

One thing I would not recommend you do is talk with doctors about this too much. They will divert you from what is really wrong with you. If they have zero (or limited) mercury knowledge how on earth can they be expected to help you with mercury?…..no…doctors will divert you away from the real cause of your troubles.

There is only one person in the whole world that really and truly gives a toss about your health…and that’s you. reading the book will enable you to give your body the respect it is due.

Buy the book, will be the best $35 you ever spend on your health. Cheap too considering what doctors want us to pay.

p.s. there are loads and loads of other things to try, all the cleanses will make a big difference to you…liver, kidney, bowel,..but that’s enough for now……Cutler book is where I think you should start investigations.

Good luck, welcome, ask lots of questions....someone somewhere will know what to do.