My story began at some point around 2005. I had been procrastinating on some dental work, and decided to bite the bullet. I ultimately required 7 amalgam fillings, and I went on my merry way about my business afterwards. It wouldn't be until years later that I would pin-point the destruction of my health to this event.
I write this in retrospect, so all I can describe is how I remember the fall of my health. The one thing I remember is that 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.
The first thing I noticed was that I routinely felt tired, lethargic... My leg muscles pained me... I seemed to always feel ill. I pushed on - as I had only begun college. After a few months of no remedy, I became tired of my constant illness so I pressed my doctor stating that it was abnormal for me to feel ill all the time, and I wanted to figure out why I have flares in my leg muscles.
After blood tests and scans, I would eventually get nowhere through traditional medicine. I opted to get an allergy test done to see if any foods brought on my symptoms. I was told that I was gluten-intolerant. When I cut out the gluten, my leg flares went - and my symptoms lessened, but only marginly. I had resolved my leg pains, but my health problems would remain.
As time pressed on - my symptoms worsened. I had routine bloodwork done, even with the top infectious disease specialist in the state. I had scans, and other various medical evaluations. None resolving my problem, and leading me to further despair. My symptoms as this point looked like this:
- Brain Fog
- Gluten Intolerance
- Poor gut function
- Poor bowel movement
- Confusion with words (Aphasia)
- Poor immune system
- Fatigue
- Fibromylagia (Cured so long as I didn't eat gluten-based food)
- Feeling 'toxic' upon waking in the morning.
- Nausea
- Poor balance/co-ordination
The more I read about my symptoms, the more I would always come back to one single issue. Mercury. So I educated myself. I read up on a number of anecdotal cases of people who were destroyed after dental amalgams. I compared my symptoms with their symptoms. I remembered my mother telling me that I wasn't well after my fillings. I had ruled out all other medical problems.. It was a case of occam's razor. This is important - Because my diagnosis wasn't one of desperation, or one driven by a conspiracy against dental amalgams. I ensured to rule out all other possibilities first.
So in early 2011 I decided to take the plunge and have my fillings replaced with composites. I went to a dentist about 50 miles away who was familiar with the dangers of dental amalgams. He himself became ill through mercury exposure. While the process was costly, the amount of money I had lost through sickdays in work was even more costly. After a month, I had all of my amalgams replaced. I spent the next 2 months researching the best chelation protocol.
I had purchased a book by Andrew Cutler called Amalgam illness. It was through this book that I learned to better understand mercury toxicity, and the most functional protocol to clear the body and brain of this woeful affliction. I also bought Áine Ní Cheallaigh's book on her recovery from Mercury toxicity, entitled "Getting the Mercury Out". It was as if she was writing about my life-story, that is how similar our problems were. So in May of 2011 I began chelation. I began with 12.5mg's of DMSA, using the Cutler protocol. 72 hours each week, every 4 hours.
At the time of writing this, I have completed 9 rounds of the protocol and will introduce ALA after round 12. My journey to recovery has only begun - But you can follow my progress on my blog: http://rejectmercury.blogspot.com/
I would certainly like to affirm that mercury toxicity is a real problem, and needs to be treated as such. Unfortunately it is terribly under-researched, so all we can do in the meantime is to try chelation therapy and throw up one anecdotal case after another until the experts begin to listen to our cries.


























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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.
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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.
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.