Hi Diana,
Interesting to hear that someone else on this forum has a Pituitary tumour. I find it absolutely amazing that it has taken me about 12 years to finally work this out. Imagine all the people out there who have numerous symptoms and disorders and just live with it because they don't have the willpower or the interest in finding out what is wrong with them. I started having my major symptoms when I was 23 years of age (no menstruation, anxiety, major PMS that seemed to come out of nowhere and a distinct change in my personality, naturally for the worse unfortunately).
I was working in Japan as a professional golf caddy. Yeah I know - wierd job! After doing this for about 8 months my eyesight started to go all wierd so I went to see the Golf Course Doctor and he said that it was nothing to worry about as it was just all the herbicides and fungicides that they use at the golf courses in Japan. I have since found out that these substances are heavily laden with Mercury and Japan does not have the same type of restrictions on amounts of Mercury added that Australia or the U.S does. My gut instinct tells me that I was already compromised by the amalgams through my teenage years, but when I was socked by large quantities of mercury through these other poisons that is when the real problems started. If I didn't have all the amalgams in my mouth whilst I was in Japan I may not have ended up in the mess that I have found myself to be in for the last 12 years.

I then spent the next 3-4 years doing the rounds of doctors, specialists and even a psychotherapist who labelled me as OCD (hypochondriac). Something inside me told me that this was cellular and not something that my mind had merely created. When I was 27 I made the decision to study accupuncture and naturopathy as a way of trying to help myself and perhaps if I liked it enough, to make it my future line of work. Well, after only a few months at college one of my lecturers suggested that I try the herb Chaste Tree (Vitex) to at least try to bring back my period. It did after only taking it for 5 weeks. First period in over 4 years. This really fuelled my interest in Natural Medicine and it was then about 2 years after that through my own research that I realised that I must have a Pituitary tumour. A CT scan showed this to be correct. I have been taking Chaste Tree for about 8 years now, and have a fairly regular cycle. It definately helps to a degree with my PMT and visual disturbances and headaches that I originally had from the tumour. I have experimented with the Chaste Tree by going off it for a month or two and lo and behold - no mestruation and hello headaches.
I had heard about amalgam poisoning many years ago at college. They really didn't go into it in any great detail. I guess a part of me refused to believe that the dental industry could possibly get away with this for such a long time and I have a real fear of the drill. Imagine as an 11 year old getting 16 fillings over the course of a couple days. I hate that drill !!
However, my desire to get this muck out of my mouth totally outweighs my fear of the drill now.
Did you have all your amalgams removed in one go ? My partner is flying to the states tomorrow so I have asked him to get Algin and the Andy Cutller book for me. Do you know about the effect of Glutathione on mercury? The doctor that I saw suggested that I take it prior to removal. Looking forward to hearing how you go now that you are post removal. Sounds like a real long road ahead for some of us. Thanks for your support and I am going to check those links out that you sent right now.