
Thanks to Champus (federally-funded health program for military dependents) I ended up w/ 7 fillings that completely cover the chewing surface when I was 10 which caused immediate horrendous headache / toothache / earaches plus hyper-sensitivity to cold that persists to this day.
I also have bad Peritonitis which is so severe - and I attribute that also to these fillings - that an orthodontist when I was in high school delayed putting braces on trying to improve it. He insisted it had to be because I wasn't following his instructions but that was NOT it. It is just as bad today as it was then and nothing I have tried has improved it, but at least I still have all but one of my adult teeth. My sister who also had so many fillings done - which may not have even been necessary for all we know - has teeth so brittle that they keep falling apart.
Two aspirin did nothing for the headaches / earaches / toothaches. I had to take three or four at a time just to get a tiny amount of relief - even though I was only 10 and always the smallest in every class I was ever in all the way through high school so that was a very heavy dose by weight. I remember lying awake crying and then holding washcloths in front of a space heater to warm them to put on my ears and face trying to ease the pain and my Mother warming baby oil in a teaspoon to pour in my ears.
I suddenly could not stand the cold. My fourth grade teacher would make me go outside for recess and lunch and I would huddle crouched near the ground chilled and miserable. It was so bad my Father bought me socks that were thigh-high (girls could not wear pants to school back then) - but even that did not help.
My sensitivity to cold was so severe that anything under 60F was too cold for me. When I had to go outside in the winter even in southern California I wore long underwear, jeans, leg warmers, a wool shirt, a flannel shirt, the type of jumpsuit skiers wear (like coveralls) and the best down jacket I could buy plus two pairs of socks (one wool, one heavy cotton), two hats and a scarf. I walked like nanook of the north and would still get so cold I could not warm up.
That has eased since I've learned to eat only natural foods and avoid fluoride and aluminum and got worse when I had a steamer that was telfon lined I was using to cook rice in the bottom and fish and vegetables in the top - inadvertantly concentrating fluoride, aluminum and mercury in the rice as the water evaporated. I also used to drink hot tea and repeatedly heated water in an aluminum tea kettle.
WARNING: do not use teflon or aluminum pots/pans/tea pots as the fluoride becomes concentrates as water evaporates and is made worse because of the interaction with the aluminum. I no longer use ANY aluminum pans or utensils.
My health issues were likely made worse by my Father playing with mercury in his job before I was born (he didn't know any better at the time). For those who aren't aware, there is now research (available at ewg.org by many scientists and others in the Environmental Working Group) that proves that the toxins in our body ARE passed to the unborn and in the milk of nursing mothers. I highly recommend that site for quality research and their database of how safe or toxic brand name products are. (Many "organic" products are NOT any safer than traditional - do your research!)
We also used Mercurochrome when I was little - I remember when it was banned - and my Mother's health was poor all her life and made worse around that time. She also had these fillings and severe health problems and depression. Her size (under 4'10" and 85 lbs) probably made the exposure far worse. She eventually had all of her teeth pulled and that improved her health. I thought it crazy at the time as she was only in her forties but maybe she suspected that the dental work are what made her ill. (She had her teeth "fixed" about the same time we did.)
There is absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind that those fillings caused those and other severe health problems - but no one suspected that at the time. No amount of mercury is safe for anyone. I would love to know if anyone has any research on whether 45 year old fillings would still be off-gassing mercury at this point so I know how much of a priority removing them should be.
Gail Gardner


























What began with debilitating fatigue, grew to accompany insomnia, blurred vision, painful sinus headaches, extreme allergies (to everything), food intolerances, candida, never-ending chronic infections, exhaustion, a consistent feeling of being tired yet wired, and hypo-thyroid issues. Everything became incredibly overwhelming. Darkness clouded over me like a shadow of death; I became depressed, anxious, and frustrated. I had gone mad, and my life had fallen apart. I was living in a bubble, and a normal existence seemed like an impossible dream.
Rebecca Lee's eight mercury filling removals sent her health into a tailspin. Read on as she tells of her health hegira (a journey, especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation).
In 2005, I received 7 amalgam fillings and afterwards saw my health spiral downward. It wouldn't be until years later that I would pin-point the destruction of my health to this event. I remember shortly after that dental appointment, I became ill routinely. My mother said to me "You haven't been well since you went to that dentist" - And that always stuck in the back of my mind.
My name is Stacy Case. I am a mom, wife, believer, journalist and a fighter. In 2008, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. All of my neurological symptoms started right after I had my silver fillings removed and replaced with more silver fillings. I later learned each filling is made of 50% MERCURY!
Flight attendant Denise Knight shares her story of extreme mercury toxicity from unsafe amalgam removal.
Looking back it's hard to believe that I didn't figure things out sooner. I was perfectly placed to know exactly what was going on. I was conscious about toxins of all kinds and took supplements to keep myself healthy. And yet, when I fell ill with mysterious symptoms eight months after I got my amalgam fillings removed, I had no idea that this could be caused by mercury.
Veterinarian Hanne Koplev suffered for years from possible heavy metal induced Parkinson's Disease
12 years ago I went to the dentist. Immediately, I notice I could not hear to well. I was tested, 40% hearing in right ear, 60% hearing in left ear. I received implant hearing implant in my left ear. My vision was blurry. I received my first pair glasses. I started stuttering, then my foot was hurting.
This is the account of how my wife was affected by mercury poisoning: It started with symptoms ranging from unexplained anxiety, palpitations, struggling to breathe, light headedness and in the final stages of her illness, pins and needless over her body. Her arms and legs became very weak and she would frequently feel as if she were going to pass out.
Plagued with allergies, vitiligo, and Hashimoto’s thyroid, I attended a medical lecture featuring a panel of doctors, one of whom spoke about autoimmune diseases and offered a warning that would change my life. “If you are in your thirties and forties and have been suffering from autoimmune diseases,” he said, “it may be connected to the amalgam fillings in your mouth.”
I suspected my health was being impacted by my dental amalgams but dismissed the idea as I trusted the scientific integrity of the dental and medical community. I assumed the anti-amalgam community to be unscientific alarmist. I expected to find little or no scientific work on the subject, but was shocked to find hundreds of peer reviewed studies.
In 2007, I was training rigorously for the 2008 U. S. Women's Marathon Olympic Trials when my health took a down turn. My training abruptly ended as I began experiencing neurological symptoms, gastrointestinal distress and major fatigue.Lucily, I was able to pinpoint the underlying cause, mercury toxicity.
I am a survivor of mercury poisoning which stemmed from having 16 mercury dental amalgam fillings by the time I was 24 years old. I've suffered from a number of neurological issue, including: depression, panic attacks, social anxiety disorder, stuttering and heart palpitations. I reached a point in my life where I wanted god himself to take my life and I wanted to die.