Hi everyone. Great site and forum, I have been reading much the last few weeks and I have a few questions. Sorry for the background info but it should help with the questions.
I will be removing my first quadrant in 2 weeks and it will take me until August to remove all 8 fillings.
Hi Patman,
Welcome to the forum
Glad to hear you've made the move to remove your amalgams. Good idea to get things done slowly too. Exposure during removal increases markedly as I'm sure you're aware. I assume you are having them removed by a biologic dentist with the expected protection?
I have Ulcerative Colitis (Irritable Bowel Disease) and eczema that I have been controlling it for the last 1.5 years with a very health and nutritious diet along with supplements (probiotics, omega3 fish oils, antioxidants/flavoniods and calcium). I’m now on ½ of the medications that I was on before and in remission. My current diet is very close to the Candida diet and I did the Candida 100% when I first started my healing with the help of a nutritionist. Candida is no longer a problem for me. I still feel that something is holding me back. I had my water tested and found copper, zinc and barium so I now drink distilled water. I had my blood tested and found 5ng/ml of mercury. After reading too many medical research papers on Immune System dysfunction and mercury I knew my fillings had to come out. I found a dentist that will uses all the correct protocols. I also had my blood sent out for IGG testing for which composite material to use for my replacement fillings.
Yes, the candida diet helped me alot also (still does). But like you, I knew something was holding me back and I felt poisoned. It was of course, my amalgams!
Blood tests by the way are not always reliable in the sense that they don't usually give a "face value" indicator of what is really going on with mercury. A very poisoned person can still show a very low level of mercury. It's usually only from high recent exposures that the blood/hair tests may show mercury levels that are higher.
However, mercury is bound up and hard to measure in hair or blood. Sometimes provocative testing can give a result, but even that has its risks to it, as it also may moblise a great deal of stored mercury at once!
I am unsure also how accurate the testing is for biocompatibility of replacement materials. But wise move to do it anyway! It is a good idea to do more than one test on various materials and see which material comes out ok on all tests. You get contradictions, but you may find one material seems to test ok on most.
So my questions…
1. Should I use composites or porcelain? I have read mixed info on this.
2. My blood work showed 5ng/ml of mercury so does this mean the mercury is mobilized? My antioxidant supplement has alpha lipoic Acid (and a bunch of other good stuff) and I eat a lot of garlic, eggs and a lot of veggies.
3. My nutritionist is recommending a mercury detox from Dragon River. Does anyone have any experience with them? I saw that Dr. Mercola has recommended it. Here is the link and site
http://www.dragonriverherbals.com/pdf/detox.pdf http://www.dragonriverherbals.com/4. I found a doctor that will go with DMPS, but I think I leaning toward going with the herbal route since the herbal route has been great with me in the past. Or should I got with DMPS?
Thanks in advance for all the help.
Pat
Yes, I know what you mean by the mixed information on composites and ceramic/porcelain. Very difficult to know which way to go. Certainly one is far more expensive than the other, so composites have the financial advantage of being much cheaper. However, the other lasts almost a lifetime.... But what you most wish to find out is which one is the safer route to go for your health? I wish I could clearly answer this. It may depend on your response to plastics for starters. You can always get a sample of each and do a cheek/gum test. Make sure the sample is cured/hardened (i'm sure you'd figure that out).
You can do a couple of hours of it in your mouth for a few days. Sometimes that can help. However, you must also remember that one may have more reactions that way than they might if the material were sealed in the tooth itself. But you can try it and see.
The recommendations you've had may help some, but they can hurt plenty of other people. E.g. high sulfur like garlic/eggs etc can really work well with some mercury toxic people. For others? It can be disastrous. Just test your own reactions with them. I was ok with them with amalgams, but once my amalgams were out? The reactions to sulfur foods and supplements were very very strong. Probably because the stored mercury was now beginning to come out, or it may have been the DMPS IV that mobilised alot of the stored mercury and made it far too easy to be mobilised further by sulfur foods/supplements.
Just keep that in mind and keep an eye on your reactions.
I would steer clear of ALA (alpha lipoic acid) at this point. Do not take this stuff in anything! It is a strong mercury chelator (chelates the brain too). Not only should it not be used when you still have amalgams, but you would be advised not to use it until you have first reduced the extracellular mercury first (mercury on the outside of cells). Blood levels need to be reduced first before adding ALA. Or it can carry that mercury with it into the brain. When the time is right to use it, it should used every 3 hours around the clock to reduce mercury redistribution.
Many people have tried DMSA first to reduce blood levels post amalgam removal and done well on it. But again, should be used every 4 hours around the clock for the same reasons as ALA (reduce mercury redistribution). Please read this link for further information:
Informative posts by Andy CutlerI have put this up elsewhere on this forum too.
DMPS can be risky also. Please be careful, you're dealing with a potent poison and when it is mobilised too much at once, or in the wrong way, you may get much worse. I did by a DMPS IV. Though admittedly, the doctor was not experienced enough in how to do it. But I did not know this at the time, since he presented himself as being in control and knowledgeable.
