Hi all, I'm new to the forum and looking for some guidance...

I had my last mercury filling removed last month by a holistic dentist and they gave me a detox regimen that seems somewhat simplistic and reckless. It's a treatment used by Dr. Omura that uses cilantro tablets. I'm supposed to start with one tablet a day and work my way up to four or as I can tolerate. Supporting supplements given are folic acid and shark oil.

I know cilantro pulls out mercury from anywhere in the body and then it is up to your body to eliminate it. The problem is my body is weakened from such a large burden over many years of building toxicity so I'm worried about redistribution. I was looking for something that could trap the metals in the gut to help bring them out and came across Algin recommended from this site. Three different times I have tried to take one Algin capsule with nothing else and I become very fatigued(down-regulated metabolism), foggy/achy, get a strong metallic taste in my mouth which is most noticeable when waking and feel like I could stay in bed and sleep instead of getting up. This lasts 2-3 days from taking just one capsule. I get a similar reaction whenever I try taking N-Acetyl Cysteine(NAC). I understood that Algin stays in the gut so I'm not sure what it could be doing to move metals around and making me feel so bad. Would this reaction have something to do with the liver? Should I not take Algin given this reaction?

I could take chlorella but I understand that it goes into the bloodstream and would mobilize more mercury and even in the gut it has a weak bond so there is a good risk of redistribution anyway. The only other thing I can think of that might trap the metal ions in the gut until excretion is zeolite powder. Are there any opinions on zeolite powder? I have been using some liquid zeolite which might help take some out of the blood but it's a smaller amount and gives me fluid(lymph?) buildup in the ears.

I have read about the Cutler protocol which I might have to end up trying but thought I should give the dentists office recommendation a try first. I have eaten some cilantro and chlorella two years ago when I first found out I had heavy metal toxicity and it briefly cleared things up drastically but I didn't know what I was doing back then and I ended up crashing. Same thing with clay baths which back fired from improper use. Now I am a bit trigger shy to do anything.

I have slow bowels so I really need something to trap the stuff to prevent redistribution. Any other suggestions on what to use with the cilantro tabs or should I not even try it?

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Here is a background of my situation. I'm 27 and I have had 15 amalgam fillings which were all placed between 1989-1998 when I was a kid. I think 5-6 of them were put in my baby teeth. I was a six-sport high school athlete at two different class 6A high schools. During my second semester of college in 2002 I started having anxiety attacks out of the blue for no reason. All health tests came back normal and I was placed on an antidepressant but, since then, my health has declined. In 2005, I came off the med but several symptoms set in and I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism shortly after. Thyroid hormone replacement did not help much but I was able to push through my senior year of college and managed to graduate in the spring of 2006.

A few months after graduation I had to move back home because I was too symptomatic to work and needed to find out what was wrong w/o having to resort to prescription medications which only masked my symptoms and let them progress. In 2007, I saw a natural health doctor who put me on a high dose of iodine and some other supplements which helped but did not solve the issues. However, I was able to function much better and had more energy on high dose iodine. When my iodine was restored to adequate levels he ran a bio-meridian test and it showed no improvement. We talked about it and he thought I had some sort of toxicity. I quickly found out I had heavy metal poisoning(most likely from my dental fillings) after trying a green drink that had chlorella in it and felt better and I could feel stuff being released.

I did a thorough search of my mouth and found only three fillings left despite my dental records showing 15 had been placed throughout childhood. The three left had deteriorated and the others must have vaporized or been ingested. After a set-back in 2008 from trying some clay baths, I finally had my three remaining mercury fillings replaced over the last six months.

Some of the symptoms I have are:
--adrenal fatigue -my adrenal glands themselves are fine but after lab-work and a few experiences I've determined that there is something wrong with the stimulation process in the HPA axis. Antidepressants completely restore normal stimulation and I have great energy while on them so I think it is metals blocking or disrupting neurotransmitters, especially serotonin. When I had my first two larger fillings replaced last November, I immediately noticed adrenal function and energy being restored and even had a thyroid crisis four days post-replacement. My low adrenal function returned three weeks later so I think metals shifted around causing the same disruption in the HPA axis. I have dark circles under my eyes and occasional low blood pressure symptoms.
--hypothyroidism -I take 30mg of Armour Thyroid. After a thyroid crisis mentioned above I quit taking any thyroid hormone for six weeks and did fine w/o it before needing to get back on it in December. I cannot eat soy or goitrogenic foods.
--chronic fatigue -(due to low cortisol) I'll sometimes need to lay down or take naps in the afternoon. I have poor tolerance for exercise. I can only walk and if I try and jog or jump I'll start to feel really weak and lightheaded.
--fibromyalgia -muscles almost always ache (due to low thyroid/cortisol)
--muscle weakness/stiffness
--depression/anxiety/panic attacks -lots of brain fog, general anxiety and feeling uneasy
--irregular bowel movements/bloating -possibly due to low metabolism and/or poor digestion
--weight loss/inability to gain weight -I have always been very thin with very low body fat. I think this has exacerbated mercury toxicity because there is less storage tissue. I have a poor appetite and only really feel hungry in the evenings. A lot of times I'll eat even though I'm not hungry to try and maintain weight.
--insomnia -it takes me at least one hour to fall asleep at night and very hard to get up early..usually feel unrested in morning.
--poor vision -need corrective lenses, dry eyes, image burning, pressure behind eyes, floaters and night blindness
--heat and cold intolerance -difficulty sweating
--poor quality hair and nails
--mild BPH and hairloss

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions about how I should proceed to get this stuff out. This looks like a great forum to find answers for mercury toxicity. Thanks for reading.

John