Hi there,

it's my 1st time on the board.

My story is one that may be familiar. In late 2002 I had 2 mercury fillings placed in my mouth and started to have chronic fatigue like symptoms. I did not link the fillings to my condition until 2004 when I had the fillings removed using all the necessary precautions. I felt a lot better.

I did not quite feel totally 100% and decided to have 3 final fillings (which I had for over 10 years without problems) removed. I regularly see a kinesiologist and it was flagged up that mercury was still and issue. I had the final fillings removed and embarked on a chelation programme.

Maybe I chelated too hard because I felt lots better when I wasn't taking any supplements than when I was - is that normal? I have since had various tests done (urine and kinesiology) showing that mercury is no longer a (big) problem for me. The only query I have is that I feel worse whenever I take any vitamins or supplements - is this because my body is extra sensitive or because it would prefer to deal with everything on its own and in its own time?

I read so much about different chelation therapies. I honestly believe that the detox made me feel worse as my body could have got rid of most of the mercury at its own speed without becoming stressed. I was wondering if anybody (and Russ esp) had any views on this.

With best wishes,

Ray

Yes-this has been happening to me to. I had my amalgams removed over a year ago and it seems like the more supplements I take I feel worse to. I have talked to Laura about it on the phone and she is stumped. The only supplement I can take that has no side effects is algin. It is a great chelator. Maybe the body is saying Let me get this junk out at my own pace like you said. I would appreciate any insight on this. I still have a couple of root canaled teeth. I had 3 pulled that the dentist felt were a problem and it didn't help me at all so I am hesitant to pull any more. The supplemts really aggravate and give me bad fibromyalgia symptoms.

It sounds crazy, but apparently you can be allergic to vitamins and/or minerals. Getting rid of these allergies is a part of NAET therapy (which involves acupuncture/acupressure).

http://www.naet.com/subscribers/index.html

I think that could be the reason so many companies go to painstaking efforts to exclude common and even uncommon allergens from vitamin pills, because so many people find they react to them. However it may not be the extra contents that they're reacting to, but the vitamin itself.

I saw an alternative MD yesterday who did some kinesiology testing, and I turned up allergic to Vitamin C! I found this kind of hard to believe, and definitely inconvenient since I had gone to her primarily to get a prescription for a Vit. C IV so I could get my amalgams out.

I'm going to their NAET practitioner next week to get that worked on, so hopefully I can get it resolved soon. But if it ends up taking a lot of sessions I'm going to get even more suspicious and feel like my doctor and dentist are in cahoots since my new dentist referred me to her. And she (the doctor) is a definite proponent since she's listed as a contributor on the NAET inventor's book!

I'm willing to consider the possibility of vitamin/mineral allergies though, because I also mentioned getting migraines every time I take a magnesium supplement (even though it contains no allergens). And how I don't get any relief anymore from Epsom Salt (magnesium sulfate) baths. Sometimes they actually make me feel very weak and nauseous, whereas they used to make me feel very relaxed and happy.

I tested allergic to Magnesium too. She did about 5 tests, and the only one I didn't show an allergy to was distilled water.

It will be interesting to see if NAETs works, because it's supposed to *permanently* eliminate the allergy. And really, I feel I have no choice since my dentist referred me to her and I won't be able to get a Vit. C IV until their office is satisfied that my allergy symptoms are cleared!

There are only two offices that practice holistic dentistry in this city that I know of, and I couldn't even get an appt. for the other one til mid June.

Hi RayGee,

If you were taking vitamin B-12 in the wrong form, than this is probably why you feelt alot worse!!!

Click to SCARY THOUGHTS to my POST by SCARLET in this MERCURY SECTION OF THE FORUM.

Theres some very informative information about this and other natural suppliments. That I hope will help you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I've done some NAET. Then I found a similar modality that didn't use all the needles and seemed faster. It's called BioSET and was founded by Dr. Ellen Cutler, and it's based on NAET techniques.

In preparation for my amalgam removal next week, my dentist recently had me visit his office for an allergy densitization to heavy metals. It seems I was allergic to nearly all the metals except for copper. I suppose time will tell as to whether the allergy clearing they did worked because I wasn't aware of any immediate allergic symptoms to metals. But my dentist clears these allergies because he says that patients generally do so much better in handling amalgam removal and any future detox they might choose to do (or even with the natural detox the body starts doing on its own once amalgams are out) when their allergy to metals is cleared.

Using these allergy clearing techniques has successfully cleared me of many allergies. But I don't believe I'll have a chance of clearing all my allergies until my healthy dental restoration is complete and I get rid of my candida overgrowth problem, for starters.

For what it's worth, prior to doing allergy densitization, I was evidently allergic to some very basic compounds like vitamin C (which is in tons of food!), B vitamins, I was even allergic to my own histimine. I was allergic to cotton, polyester, rayon, dust mites, flies, trees, grasses, the list was really long. And I knew I had lots of allergies, I just had no idea the allergies could be so basic -- like to vitamins in foods and supplements. I think allergy clearing is a great adjunct to any healing program, personally.

Here is a link to my dentist's website -- actually this is a adobe acrobat file from his website that explains non-traditional allergy densitization protocols.

http://www.nihadc.com/AET_article.pdf

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Look at Andrew Cutler's Protocol. He has a website and a book you can order. People swear by this protocol. My guess is you still have the mercury in your system and it's not be chelated correctly and making things worse.

RayGee: I think candida may be an issue here. In that case you have typical symptoms such as a white coated tongue, skin rashes or itching skin on head. Typically most people who have been mercury poisoned have a weakened immune system which has let the candida spread within the body. It causes commonly brain fog, chest pain, rapid heart beat, constipation, joint pain, and in fact many other things like mercury does, and you get some reactions to common supplements.

It's hard to tell whether the symptoms thought to be caused by mercury are in fact those caused by candida toxins, which I think many make a mistake about. However, you'll know about this when you start an anti-candida diet, it should help quickly, at least it helped me.