hello,

I have been looking at the IBSgroup bulletin boards as I have IBS and mercury inmy body. There have been several duscussions on those boards saying that mercury removal had no effect ontheir IBS, and also claiming that mercury does not cause any gastrointestinal symptoms and is perfectly safe to use!
I guess each of us reacts differently and I will have to wait till I get my own amalgams out (next week) to see what the effects if any are. Apparently a lot of people remove them and feel no better or worse.
thanks

I had mine out 4mths ago and my IBS that i had for years has gone, i no longer get bloated like i used to, i also had alot of pain in the abdomen area before removal.
I had about 20 symptoms before removal, now i have depression, anxiety, earaches and tinnitus which i never really had before but this was due to not having my amalgams out the proper way(with only a rubber dam).

Alot of people dont have any changes after removal, i swapped old symptoms for new ones.

How many amalgams do you have and what safety protocol will your dentist be following?

It would be a good idea to avoid making the same mistakes that some of us have with removal while you still have time to get the facts.

Concerning IBS, my main symptom was a crippling stomach pain every few days for over 15 years. (Lower right side).
This would build from an initial colicky / spasmodic sensation to severe pain that would last many hours.

Having the fillings removed was like having the electric current in my stomach (and right side of my face) switched off.

It is now 16 months since removal and NOT ONE instance of that awful pain has recurred.

(I must add that I did have a slight disturbance when I tried a tiny bit of Bentonite clay in juice, but this passed fairly quickly and was certainly nothing like the 'locked up' feeling from before.)

From my own continuing research, it seems the highest charged filling was in a tooth connected to the stomach meridian.

I believe a combination of electrical disturbance and mercury particle exposure in the stomach were responsible for the pain and dysfunction.

Unfortunately, brain symptoms (seizures) have now taken the place of the stomach one. (Probably due to the mercury vapour breathed in during removal.)

Again I would advise you to arm yourself with as much info as possible before going under the drill.

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Take care
Virago (30, f, Scotland)

hello,

I have 3 fillings, and my dentist will be giving me some charcoal before, using a adam and a separate air suppyl for me to breathe and eye masks.

hope my stomach symptoms disappear too

sounds like you will be protected pretty well. good luck!

Hi, I feel like a broken record posting this, so forgive me if you've read my posts before on it. Do make sure you are following a candida diet. I cannot really emphasize this enough in a mercury toxic person.

You can be in a severe situation with mercury and I can tell you now, that eating any sugar, yeast, gluten in your diet will not only excerbate the situation, but create new problems at the sametime.

So if you're not already, you might want to seriously think about eliminating this stuff and allow at least a little of your body cope a bit easier with what is going on. the diet is not always a cure for candida, but a control of it during the intoxication of mercury and/or other toxic conditions.

This exclusion includes milk and fruit. Natural sugars are not much better and will feed the candida also. Even grains can if they are eaten in excess, so limit grains as much as possible and certainly avoid gluten at all costs (wheat, barley, rye, oats etc).

Not to force this on you, but in case you were interested, that's what I would recommend. I have found I cannot even cheat from this diet for ONE night.

But then I am in a very severe way and it doesn't take much at all to tip me into a worse condition.