Hi Teri,

I'm sorry to hear about what you're going through but please know that there are solutions and you can certainly make it through this.

Here are some suggesions that you can implement to help protect your baby and yourself until you can have the fillings removed (I believe these suggestions apply equally to your baby):

• Take Aglin daily. This will help prevent redistribution of mercury from the colon back into the bloodstream and should help keep your blood-mercury levels lower (very important). Most people notice an immediate improvement in symptoms when taking Algin.
• Take a good quality Vitamin C with Bioflavonoids. This will help protection you against free radical damage induced by the mercury and help a number of other body systems that can suffer when mercury is present. I would take about 5000 mg daily.
• Take a good quality Vitamin E with Selenium. This will belp protect your body and especially your brain from additional mercury-induced free radical damage. Selenium should be taken with Vitamin E (that is why they are together in this supplement) because mercury depletes selenium which is very important for several vital body funtions.
• You can take Saw Palmetto to help with the hair issue. Mercury (and caffiene) raise DHT (dihydrotestosterone) levels which causes hair loss, among other things. Saw Palmetto will help regulate DHT.
• For the headache, try Magnesium. Mercury interferes with magnesium horribly which can cause headaches, constipation and a myriad of other symptoms, especially related to muscles and aches. You can also eat an apple each day to help with constipation, so long as it does not cause sugar-related issues.
• To help boost your energy, you could take a thryoid supplements, like Thyroid Support. This is what I use (actually, I use all of the supplements I am suggesting to you). Mercury prohibits the conversion of thyroid hormone T4 to T3 which is probably why your energy is so low. I have the same issue. This supplement will help increase your T3 levels.

There are also some other common sense things you can do to help maintain your health until the mercury is removed:

• Drink lots of unfluoridated water.
• Make organic veggies your primary food. Eating organic rather than non-organic can make a lot of difference. Try to have a couple organic carrots for the vitamin A (carotenoids) which is also important with mercury toxicity.
• Eat no seafood (especially tuna), no caffeine, no processed sugar, no NutraSweet.
• Try to sweat. Use a sauna daily if you have access to one.

With your symptoms, you're undoubtedly experiencing what they call "Stage 3 Mercury Toxicity". This is where your organs can no longer absorb it (they already have been absorbing it for years) and your chronic blood-mercury levels remain higher. This is serious, as you already know.

There are some other ideas that may help with your specific symptoms, but they can be a little risky because they have both positive and negative effects with mercury.

If we can help more, feel free to post any more specific information and the great people on this board will be happy to offer help, suggestions and support.

Also, in case you're not familiar with my personal mercury story, it may help you to know you're not alone in this and it will offer practical suggestions about what you can do to find and dentist and recover. This situation is actually very common, most people have just not realized it yet as mercury is related to diabetes, Alzheimer's, fibromyalgia, CFS, MCS, Allergies, IGS, arthritis and countless other diseases.

Many people are desperate to find out what is wrong with them or why they have an "incurable" disease and we have the answer right here... Mercury from amalgams, vaccines, tattoos, and numerous other sources.

My Mercury Story

Take care and let us know what you decide to to.