Greetings, Russ and Debi

Your stories have been very helpful to me, here is mine, still unfolding.

Last August I woke up dizzy and nauseous and lightheaded and didn't know why. I spend 3 months with the traditional doctors and they passed me around without a diagnosis (but with an offer for Prozac).
I read a lot of books on allergy and realize I have multiple chemical sensitivities (brain fog, dizzy feeling). In Dec 2002, I found an MD in Environmental Medicine and he perscribed vitamin C IV and supplements (C, E, quercetin, msm,fish oil-although I have stopped that because of my recent blood test results, tri-salts, glutathione). My body is under a lot of oxidative stress.

I have been doing the IV/c at least once every two weeks and I started to feel better. In April I was tested for minerals and metals and THERE IS AN EXTREME HIGH LEVEL OF MERCURY IN MY RED BLOOD CELL. My doctor is having my family tested for the same test (we moved two years ago). I ate fish (salmon, halibut, cod, occasional tuna)in my entire life and I have 9 amalgams on my molars and 1 crown and a history of teeth grinding.

As I am doing more research on this, I realize mercury has been a part of my life always, I ate fish, I got the amalgams since age of 13 (and I remember I my eyes needed new perscription every year in high school), I used contact lenses solution for 15 years (started in mid '80s).

Five years ago I started to get Raynaud's Symdrome in my toes (vasculitis) and that got worse, my eyes dried up, I see floaters, sometime big ones, now my vision vibrates and right ear rings increasingly loudly. I have battled depression... and I now also have a bitter taste in my mouth. I have borderline low basal temp. Now my doctor has told to exercise 2x/day
and sit in a sauna for 10 min everyday to raise my temp. Now I have read that having amalgam and sitting in a sauna is not safe, right?

Hence I am anxious and am wondering if I have the amalgam disease. Mercury in my red blood means I am still exposed to the stuff, would amalgams do that? (I thought it gets deposited in the organs and doesn't show up in blood tests). I am considering going to the Huggins clinic in Montreal but it's sooo expensive. As you know insurance doesn't pay for alternative treatments. but I am very afraid to mess up my immune system now. I need someone to remove the amalgam correctly. (if this
is the problem).

I have Andy Cutler's book, and the uninformed consent and elements of danger. It overwhelms me to think about dental revision and chelation.

Any insight you may have on the mercury in blood test issue,
positive/negative experience you know about Dr. Huggins' clinics, would be greatly appreciated.

God bless,

Sue