Hi Brett,

I am very glad you found us too . Mercury from amalgam is actually one of the MAIN things a person ought to consider as being a possible/probable key in their mysterious health issues, when there seems to be no real answers. The reason I say this is, it's one of the most common ongoing sources of toxicity that many of us have been or ARE exposed to on a daily basis. Unless there is some other internal ongoing problem such as infection and/or virus etc. OR, an external exposure significant enough.

I think you are on the right track personally, but nobody can know for certain. It is at least ONE source of toxicity and it maybe the cause in your problems, or at the very least a contributing factor. Certainly, amalgam is never benign. Though some handle it better than others for various reasons. Sooner or later, one can succumb to its effects and buckle under the toxicitiy and remain chronically ill from then on. There are often triggers to that happening. An accident, or some other immune challenge maybe the trigger for someone's body finally succumbing under the strain and no longer able to battle the amalgams as well as it may have done before.

It is often a slow, insidious build up of illness or it can be dramatic. I've heard of some people becoming almost immediately ill following an amalgam being placed, or some deteriorate over time and cannot pinpoint the cause.

You would do well to look into the role candida has in amalgam toxicity. In many people with amalgam toxicity, candida (yeast overgrowth) can be a very big problem. This in itself can cause many similar symptoms to mercury. though it is often not the cause, it is usually a severe outcome of a lowered/poisoned immune system. Please look into this if you have not already. Treating candida with diet, can help your body handle the amalgam toxin much easier and may reduce or even remove many symptoms. It is not a cure, but it is sometimes a life saver for many. This means eliminating sugar, wheat/gluten, and yeast from your diet and possibly eliminting or at least reducing high carbohydrate foods also (depending how severe the yeast growth is). Yeast overgrowth gives off toxins of it's own and often overloading the gut and liver with them. The gut and liver are required for detoxification. When they are overloaded by yeast toxins, you will probably have big issues trying to detox and handle the mercury. So look into this seriously!

This can at least be a help to you as you embark on amalgam removal. There are some biologic dentists who insist on treating their mercury toxic patients for candida before they will even remove their amalgams, so they can strengthen them for the removal process and detox that follows. It is very important. Though removing amalgams in the end, may improve or even resolve yeast issues. It is still wise to treat it at the sametime. Treating yeast enabled me to lessen my severe depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. I may not have been here otherwise. Though amalgams were the underlying problem, yeast toxins took over also.

The fact you feel great whilst on detox plans, but then start to deteriorate again when off them, does show you have an ongoing source of toxicity and the toxins once again, build up inside you after you stop the detox. So somehow you have to switch of the tap of toxicity (amalgams?). Diet will also detox you and if you stick to it, will help KEEP the toxins somewhat reduced and may at least keep you going in the meantime. But the amalgams maybe the culprit and will need to be SAFELY removed by a biologic dentist.

Vitamins/minerals can also help you, alongside the diet. I tend to take a powder mix multi vitamin/mineral supplement as a good overall foundation and from there add some extras that mercury and other toxins tend to deplete - vitamin E, selenium, vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, etc. These are pretty typical ones that people take. I also make sure I get enough healthy fats/oils in my diet too, which are necessary for hormones and the brain etc. Fish oil (mercury free) (and/or cod liver oil - mercury tested), organic flaxseed oil (I add a couple of teaspoons each time I have a cup of sugar free acidophilus yoghurt), butter (excellent and recommended by Hal Huggins for mercury poisoning), extra virgin olive oil etc. Stay away from hardened vegetable oils like canola etc. Low fat, no fat diets are also not usually recommended. Fat is far more necessary than we have been lead to believe for many functions inside the body.

Maybe we can start helping you locate a biologic dentist nearest to you as possible. Here are a few links that "may" help for starters. Click on these:
Locate a biologic dentist (You can also "Ask the doctor" on there, who may also be able to help you find somebody nearer you).

Holistic and mercury free dentists in different areas