Hi there,

The only mercury test I have been able to come by is a testing of blood, even though I did not bother to tell my doc why I wanted the test done, I just explained some of the symptoms and she is doing lots of testing, such as mineral deficiency and a few vitamin deficiency tests amongst others.

Is there a chance that a chronic mercury poisoning will show up in the blood test? I will get my test results in a week and share it with the forum, but I'm hoping that at least SOMETHING may show up. Any chance??

I'm pretty sure it rarely shows up on blood tests. Although it occationally might.

Green Peace does a hair test throught the mail. Although they are 2 weeks late with my results. I'm getting frustrated.

Still waiting on my Hg blood results, but I did a DETAILED blood work including check of minerals, vitamins etc and they are all o.k. Even my candida stool test was negative, so I must be free of candida for the first time after 5 years!!!

I guess the remaining battle is to get mercury low enough until ALL symptoms go away. I do agree they are worse in the winter, and for me when I am under stress as well as when I get a cold or a flu or other viruses attack, my body has a harder time fighting disease and mercury symptoms get much worse.

Despite that my blood tests are o.k. my doctor gave me an I.V. cocktail of vitamin c, B12 and others and that has helped me to recover from a "virus" or some sort of flu which kept me in bed for about 10 days. I instantly felt much better.

I also want to bring up another point in regards to supplements. I think it may be a bad idea to continually take the supplements that are advised for mercury toxicity. I have decided to take a break from them for a while and to see if I feel a change since too much of anything cannot be good for you over a long period of time, and like someone else wrote in a different post they seem to backfire on you. So, I will only take Algin but lower that as well and see what happens. After almost a year of supplementation I think the body needs to find it's on healing path as well.

There are other things a person can do to heal themselves such as trying the healing "mudras" which I highly recommend. Mudras are different hand movements and positions (a sort of mediation) and it doesn't require any physical strain for those of us who are too weak to exercise. You can look them up online as well. There are different mudras to help different symptoms and parts of the body.

I just think that if one is to get better from something as serious as mercury poisoning then supplements alone may not do the trick or the body may start to get a reverse effect and we can do a lot with our minds to help ourselves feel better. Just a thought...

I can't prove what I am saying, but I thoroughly agree with you about ceasing the supplements, at least for a while. With supplements, we can't even know if they are being well absorbed and assimilated. If it was me, I would be taking whole-food supplements. From my point of view, unless you are diagnosed with a severe deficiency, it is best to get your nutrients by improving digestion through herbs or whatever method it takes, and then eating a high-nutrient diet.

I always wondered what became of those excess nutrients from pills that were neither absorbed nor excreted. They may be piling up somewhere causing problems in some way we can't even know?

Well, just as most of you could have guessed, my mercury blood test was negative.. Even harded now to pursue the idea of mercury poisoning with the doc I'm seeing now.

As crazy as this sounds I am considering seeing a psychologist to try and get help with getting through the emotional aspect of this illness. I'm scared that it's becoming worse in some aspects as it impacts the central nervous system. I feel I need additional help while I keep battling the remaning mercury.

I can't help but to believe there is a physical cause to your illness. Standard blood tests don't reveal mercury toxicity because the body harbors mercury until it can't anymore, which is called stage 3. This keeps mercury-blood low until that point. Based on my research, I have concluded that standard mercury blood tests are useless.

Hi Russ,

can you expand on your idea that there is a physical cause to my illness. I am not sure I understand what you mean by that.

Virtually all of my blood tests and many other tests performed by doctors have checked out fine, yet I am still not getting better. Any suggestions?

Hi Nina,

You mentioned perhaps seeing a psychologist to try and get help with getting through the emotional aspect of this illness.

I certainly understand doing that if it helps you deal with the fact that you've been ill so long and with so many difficult symptoms. What I was refering to is how different my whole emotional being works now that I've had my amalgams removed. In fact, I'm going to write a paper on it and publish it.

So many people feel fearful, depressed, lonely, suicidal, helpless and so many other emotions that I lived with in intensity all of my life. When my amalgams were removed, all these negative emotions went away. It was as dramatic as the physical changes I went through, in some ways, moreso.

In my studies, I've concluded this:

If a human is well nourished and not toxic, they will usually be emotionally healthy and able to deal with most that life throws at them. Mercury toxicity is especially potent in the area of making people feel these horrible emotions.

I think (my personal opinion) based on what I've seen you write over time, is that there is a toxicity issue with you, and mercury seems to fit the symptoms. I know that the hospital toxicity tests are virtually worthless. It's been very hard for you to see patterns or changes in your symptoms based on the supplements you've taken so it's hard to pin down the source of the problem, but it must be there, somewhere. Emotions are very closely tied to our body chemistry and this is important.

I would write everything down and try going through a pattern of supplements and dietary changes to see how your body responds in each case to gain insight to the real cause. Look for patterns but be sure to write it all down. It has to be methodical. Perhaps it would be helpful to have someone help you determine when you're having an emotionally good day or a bad day as well because sometimes it's hard for us to see this in ourselves.

Sorry for all the trouble you've been through. There has to be a solution somewhere.