Hi wenpam3,

Thank you for sharing your situation. You've been through alot, as many mercury toxic people have and drill-happy dentists. I don't go to dentists now if I can help it. I look after my teeth well, brush twice a day, floss pretty regularly and check them myself. Because I cannot tolerate the mercury vapor within the office environment. I actually get poisoned anytime I walk into a dental office, even biologic ones. Because of the drilling of amalgams that goes on there. Mercury vapor escapes as it's being drilled and fills the air with it. Even extraction systems cannot clear it entirely. The stuff is potent! So I have to do my best to avoid dentists. Partly why I got cerec porcelain put in my teeth, so they'll last almost a lifetime (hopefully). But even they have their own toxins, as all dental materials do. Aluminium oxide is I think one component involved in ceramic/porelain. But nothing is perfect except tooth enamel. They key I guess is to find something less toxic and something that will not accummulate in the tissues/brain over time as mercury does.

Mercury disrupts just about everything in the body. Hormones, the whole deal. It also commonly causes food intolerances/allergies and the candida yeast syndrome. Maybe directly from the toxic effects and indirectly by what it does to the body and lowering the immunity and stressing the liver and the gut. I've had so many problems caused by amalgams in my life that I had to fight back eventually by changing my entire diet just to survive better. I was close to suicide because I was so incredibly toxic. Going on a wheat/gluten free candida diet I think saved my life and I mean that. Dramatic as it may sound. So if you're not doing that, I'd suggest looking into it and trying it. You may not have to be as drastic as I have to be, but just giving up sugar/wheat/yeast may make a big difference for you as you're going through amalgam removal and embarking on chelation. It helps immunity, improves gut/liver and helps to detox the body too and reduces excessive yeast levels in the body.

Vitamin C helped me too, as did selenium and vitamin E and I think zinc, magnesium and fish oil (mercury free). These were the main supplements I took because I noted a difference when taking them. But I required a quality vitamin C powder containing bioflavanoids before I really noticed a big difference, even from that alone. Selenium/vitamin E and the others were extra helpful. B complex can be good to add also. It is better to take the C and B complex more regularly because the body uses them up alot more. So splitting doses so you can take them up to 3-4 times daily maybe more helpful than taking them once or twice a day.

Yes, you sound like a lot of mercury toxic people who find it tough to tolerate sulfur based products like broccoli, onions, cabbage, chlorella, garlic etc. This is pretty typical of mercury, because sulfur, though healthy and often depleted by mercury, can also mobilise mercury in the body, thereby increasing symptoms and making a person feel sick, sometimes VERY sick if there has been alot of movement/redistribution of mercury. If it's doing this to you, then you'd need to restrict it more to a tolerable amount. Perhaps needing to back off these products until you can cope with them again later as you reduce your mercury load. Sulfur is good for a person, but mainly for those low in sulfur who can then handle having more of it because they need alot more and benefit from using it. There are others who find the extra sulfur just serves as a moblising agent for mercury and makes our symptoms too intense.

Cutler's protocol worked the best with me and how my body coped with chelation. Made more sense, kept the symptoms more tolerable and allowed me to continue chelating. I tried various other ways, but always had horrible reactions. Some people may have better functioning elimination systems and their liver phases maybe more balanced, mine were not. So any movement/stirring up of mercury was noticeable and often produced acute symptoms and a long recovery time after it. So I had to find something that would reduce the redistribution of mercury in me and keep it safer and more effective. And that's where Cutler's protocol came in.

For now, you could concentrate on diet and supportive supplements. I require enough protein foods in eats and meat and natural fast like butter, but also consume seeds and low carb vegetables. Hal Huggins talks about the need for a good diet in his book "It's all in your head". I think he mentioned that not adhering to a healthy diet can hinder or even ruin more recoveries than anything. The necessity for increased protein foods (animal meats/eggs) and even butter for mercury toxic people. Perhaps some people find they require more grain/vegetable/fruit based diet, and that's fine, but Huggins believes that he's not yet been able to cure a vegetarian. So it appears protein from animal foods does indeed serve a purpose here. As does enough salts/iodine and natural fats for healing/hormones etc.

I repeat this alot, but I believe it's good advice and something that has helped me. It's nothing fancy, but a good foundation to build on as you are trying to build your health back again after the years of assault from amalgam poisoning.