My history consisted of being on antibiotics for 10 months. when I got off them I had a systemic yeast infection I have been unsuccessful in getting rid of this infection. I have tried all the diets and antifugals. Then I found this web site and thought Mercury may be a confounding variable. So in Dec. of 06 had my silver fillings removed. Since then it seems that my symptoms have even gotten worse, I have bee naturally chelation and taking all the supplements. my main symptoms are pulsatile ringing in left ear, swollen -scallopped tongue, cold extremities, chronic fatigue, cloudy grey eyes, irritible / moody. I even had 60 grams of Vit C IV yesterday, not much help yet. I am taking probotics as well. Any suggestions?

Hi. Sorry your symptoms have got worse. Did you have your fillings replaced using all precautions i.e. oxygen? That can make a difference. There is a lot of mercury released when they are drilled out.

I would advice you to stop taking the probiotics. The yeast infection is said to be laided with mercury. So aggressively killing it with probiotics would worsen any symtoms. Probiotics made me feel the worst I've ever felt. Just stick to the candida diet -- just meat and veg.

Try taking good quality chinese chlorella, or just the normal stuff, as that helps rid mercury from the gut.

I suffered from chronic fatigue and tinnitus as well.

Hi Arctic,

Very important question: Did you have the amalgams removed by a dentist that practices mercury safety protocols?

This will help determine what your course of action would be now.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I did not have them removed by a biological dentist. However, he did use a dam and I held my breath when he would take one out. I still have a couple of gold crowns in. I had a total of 7, It was Dec. 20, 2005 had my last one out. The yeast infection I had been battling with for over 1 year. I did have the DMSA urine provacation done and it came back elevated for Mercury, lead and nickel, but nothing in the toxic ranges? I also had a hair analysis done and the only toxic metal was antimony? Are these tests accurate? Do any of you think this is Mercury and that is what is inhibiting my efforts to get rid of the yeast? Why should I stop probotics again? I started chelating today with DMSA / Chemet 3 days on 11 days off?
Any further suggestions or recommendations? Thanks for the help!

Unfortunately, I did not have them removed by a biological dentist. However, he did use a dam and I held my breath when he would take one out. I still have a couple of gold crowns in. I had a total of 7, It was Dec. 20, 2005 had my last one out. The yeast infection I had been battling with for over 1 year. I did have the DMSA urine provacation done and it came back elevated for Mercury, lead and nickel, but nothing in the toxic ranges? I also had a hair analysis done and the only toxic metal was antimony? Are these tests accurate? Do any of you think this is Mercury and that is what is inhibiting my efforts to get rid of the yeast? Why should I stop probotics again? I started chelating today with DMSA / Chemet 3 days on 11 days off?
Any further suggestions or recommendations? Thanks for the help!

Hi again.

If you had gold and amalgam in your mouth then there would have been friction of metal, which wouild have caused more mercury than normal to be released from the fillings. I believe it would have been even more if the gold and amalgam were touching each other i.e. one gold in bottom and one amalgam in top meeting when you bite.

I'm not an expert, but I think that maybe having 7 removed within the same month without using protection might be why you are having some problems now. Your body may have been overloaded with mercury when they were removed. Even if you held your breath it was probably still in the air.

From what I gather, hair tests are not accurate because mercury is attracted to neurons and hair is pretty dead. It likes active neural centres like the brain or even ovaries (in women) and organs.

It seems to me that if you got all your fillings out with not much in the way of precautions, that, even though you held your breath - you can only do that for a short time - that you probably breathed in a LOT of mercury and other heavy metal vapour which would enter your system and into your organs. So now, you have even more to be chelated. Go slowly. Heavy chelation can cause symptoms.

Also, Arctic Pilot, from what I've read on the forum, until you get the mercury out of your system, you will be host to yeast - the reason being that yeast seems to ingest some of the mercury, thus protecting you. So, it seems that yeast will be with you for a while , but when the mercury is greatly lessened/gone, then the yeast will follow suit. As opposed to Steve's experience, I take probiotics in the form of homemade kefir, and am not, in any way that I can tell, suffering from it. In fact, I like to think that without it, I would be much worse off.