Hello everyone.
First i want to say how helpful and inspiring this whole website has been to me in the past few months. I stumbled across it quite accidentally and it has been such a good help for me. So thanks to you all for your advice, stories and information.

My name is Wendy, I am 40 years old, married with 4 kids, eldest is 19yrs youngest is 1.5yrs.
My current health status is ‘fluctuating between toxic waste dump and inner city recycle unit’, ha ha ha. Got to laugh or i would cry.

I am now half way through my amalgam removal. Going to Sylvia Andrews in Loughborough, who i really recommend, i know there are some on here who really are strict about types of drill used etc and i don’t think she would meet with that criterion. But TBH, its always going to be hard going through the removal, i needed to find a dentist i could trust and she really is great.

I had about 16 amalgams, 4 were root canals, most were large and deep. Had my first one at 9yrs, had my first migraine at .........9yrs. Although the migraines that came frequently after that were never contributed to the mercury in the amalgam. Since then its been a bit of a roller coaster. Had issues with my reproductive system, hit puberty did everything a female is supposed to at that age,,,except menstruate. In the end, at 17yrs, my mum said ‘enough’ and took me to the docs. He sent me to the endocrine clinic. Where the nice consultant took one year to observe and do tests. Then finally decided to give me some ‘pills’, which i later found out was clomid. So i finally ovulated, and finally became a ‘woman’. Ha ha ha. However his solution was short lived, my crazy hormones never worked properly and i have always had problems, amenorrhea, anovulation, etc. Wasn’t until 2006 that i was finally diagnosed with Polycystic ovary syndrome. Even though i had self diagnosed myself well before that. Had to go to a fertility specialist in Egypt to get the diagnosis.

I suffered headaches frequently, along with the migraines. That was really all that was going on in the early years. I would get a new filling each dentist visit, despite excellent cleaning, six monthly visits i still got cavities!!!!! I changed dentists thinking that she was just drilling for cash. Found a new dentist, she took a look in said, all clear. Well done your doing a good job. I was shocked first time i ever heard that. So i decided to keep to her. Sadly before the next six months was over she had moved and i needed to see another dentist. Who got straight in with the drill. And once again i was being drilled every six months. I cannot work out how a root filling would have been necessary in someone who had good cleaning, and was cavity free six months previously. In the end with a mouth full of amalgam, which i hated, i stopped going to the dentist. I had a ‘’gold’’ inlay fitted at my last dental treatment, and it was from then that my health started to deteriorate fast.

The migraines and headaches increased, my head throbs, no pain just throbs especially in the occipital area, low grade fevers, periods of having ‘flu’ without all the sore throat etc, just the aches and fever, the glands in my neck would swell and deflate for no reason, i started to get achy joints in my arms and hands periodically. My hair was falling out all the time, I could see my scalp easily through it, anger and irritability skyrocketed, I would have twitches, but the worst thing was the way my brain just slowly stopped working. It was like i was slowly becoming a vegetable. I had been someone who had excellent memory and recall. But slowly that disappeared until I would have to continually return to the books to confirm things. I trained as an Aromatherapist, but i would need to keep reading or i would not remember what each essential oil does.

Now i just pick up a bottle of oil, and i get a vague inkling of what it does but unless i go to my books i cannot remember. Anyway, in 2009 i had a baby, after trying for 7yrs, it was a moment of triumph for my husband and i. I suffer frequent early miscarriage. So much so that i no longer even think about it when i start showing the signs of being pregnant, i just tell myself that my period is coming soon, i don’t do a test, just get on with life. However, my son was strong and things went well. He was small but healthy and strong. Thank God.

However after he was born it was as if my body just couldn’t hold itself together anymore, the symptoms i had been getting on and off , all came at once and i have spent more time in bed since he was born than out of it. I do not trust doctors, haven’t seen one for many years, (only registered with one cos i was pregnant), i knew something was wrong, so i hit the internet. The one thing that came up to explain all the symptoms, and the past flare ups was Lupus. Not a very nice illness. But it did not make sense to me. Auto immune disorders have never made sense to me. Why would this amazing system suddenly decide to attack you???? So i knew there was something triggering the immune system to go hyper, i hit on amalgam from an online contact who i had asked about lupus. He sent me some info linking lupus to amalgams. My friend, who is a homeopath, gave me the same response when i asked her. So i went looking for mercury poisoning. I had read about it years before, and had wanted to remove my amalgam then, (i had not contributed any of my isolated illnesses to my amalgams then, thought i was symptom free,,ha ha ha) but did not have the cash and was advised if i was symptom free then it was best to leave them in. The search was on, and oh my, what a search it has become. I am appalled by the suffering of people. I know how hard it is for me to get through a bad day, and i know there are people who are suffering much worse than i.

I read about vitamin c, so i started on that, only 1000mg daily, but even at that i felt better. Selenium also helps me, but i cannot take garlic, if i cook it i am ok, as long as i don’t use too much. Otherwise my head throbs. Broccolli also makes my head throb. I got some chlorella after reading it was good, but that made me extremely sick, then i read not to take it until after the amalgam is removed.

So, in Nov 2010, i had my first treatment, it was not too bad, i am extremely dental phobic so having a complete mouth refurbishment is psychologically really traumatising, but i know i have to do it. I felt ok the first few days after, bit of a headache but then on the third day i felt bad, i had increased my vitamin c to about 3 – 4000mg daily, but i still felt awful. It settled down but i was still feeling bad. I was delaying the next treatment, until my husband said ‘enough’ and booked for me. So this Tuesday was treatment 2. Including extraction of the gold inlay filled root canal. I could have saved the tooth, but i just felt instinctively to take it out. I have read a lot about root canals, but with four of them i am a coward to have four teeth pulled. But this one was just awful, the dentist explained how it could all go wrong and pulled it out. It took 30 mins to budge, but was black and disgusting, i have felt bruised and sore, got a large tear in my inner cheek which has swollen and hurts more than the extraction site, but its healing now, i was aching at first. Woke up Thursday with shooting pains in my bones, a sign that it was going to be a bad day, but by the evening i had no pain!!!!!!!

Woke up Friday,,,,,no pain!!!!!!!! I mean none, not one bit, i felt normal, i could not believe it. Ran around cleaning, until my husband stopped me. By evening i was in pain, lol. Saturday was an in bed day, and this morning was not good. But yesterday i found the doctor yourself website and read a lot about vitamin c, so i have increased my dose. I thought i had reached my bowel tolerance at 7500mg but it seems just one trip to the bathroom does not mean you have hit your level, so this morning i have upped my dose. Already taken about 4000mg and feeling better, just a little achy.

Now I am wondering about chelation, I have read so much my head is spinning. I have decided that i will follow Andy Cutler’s protocol. But not sure about the details. I am going to order the book today from amazon. I understand that you start the DMSA 4 days after the final amalgam is out. Then for three months you follow his system, then you bring in the ALA.
Where can i get the right stuff from, i am in Leicester in UK. I don’t want to be ripped off buying the wrong stuff and end up sicker instead of better.
I found someone selling a herbal chelator, but it was chlorella based, it is all so confusing. You read on one site chlorella is good, then its not...

I need advise on chelation, please. Also what to expect, i don’t want to get really sick during the process. Just want to ease myself in.

Thanks to all. Keep strong.

Thanks so much for visiting Wendy.

It's great to have you here.

You have been through so much. I sympathize with you because mercury ruined my life as well.

If you're interested, you can read my story here:

http://herballure.com/mms

and here (expanded and more recent):

http://herballure.com/mcs

To get the info you need, please post in the mercury amalgam forum (below) if you haven't already. There are people in that forum who will be happy to help answer any questions you have.

I would also like your permission to post your story in our Mercury Stories section of this website. If that's OK with you, just let me know. I believe it will be a big help for many who are searching.

Also, it makes sense that - with the placement of your gold - the symptoms got worse. That's very common because the copper on the "gold" fillings activates the mercury in the "silver" fillings and increases the effective toxicity.

Also, if you're ever interested, I'm beginning to do phone "interviews" with people who have had mercury-related health issues. These interviews will be posted for all to hear. You don't need to reveal your identity. We just want people to benefit from the experiences of others, and I believe your story would really help people understand what mercury does.

Well, thanks again for posting and I look forward to seeing you in the Mercury forum below.

Russ