Issue 79: Marie's Story of Mercury P... 
Marie
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Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoning
In July of 2001, on the first night of my vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the side of my tooth broke off. It was very rough against my tongue. I wanted to stay in Tennessee the whole week, so I asked a local dentist to put some kind of patch on my tooth to last until I returned to Virginia to see my regular dentist. Immediately after he patched the tooth, I started tasting metal in my mouth.
On August 8th, I saw my regular dentist, who said he did not know why I tasted metal. He drilled, and drilled, and drilled into the "silver" filling in order to resize the tooth for its new crown. I didn't know that this "silver" filling contained 50% mercury, and I didn't know that mercury vapors were released when a dentist drills into it. Neither did I know that when you breathe these vapors that the vapors can enter your brain. He did not use anything to protect me from the mercury vapors. (Your dentist probably doesn't protect you either.) My dentist put on the temporary crown and I went home.
On August 13th, I felt like something moved inside my brain. It did not hurt. It just felt like something was up on the left side tumbling around and sort of tickling my head. It was weird, but I just put it out of my mind.
On August 16th, just before bedtime, I felt a little small circle at the top of my head begin to burn. My scalp was sore to the touch and it tingled all over. I had a slight headache.
On August 17th, I woke up to my whole brain feeling like it was on fire! My brain was jumping inside my skull and my head was throbbing. I started feeling electrical charges surge up and down my body from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. I went to my internal medicine doctor that day, but she had no idea why my brain was burning or why the lymph nodes were swollen in my neck.
I started doing research on the Internet about food additives such as Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) (monosodium glutamate) and aspartame. At first I started avoiding MSG, because I was becoming allergic to a lot of food I could normally eat, such as breads, milk, vinegar, mayonnaise, and spices. My head would throb when I ate the wrong food. When I ate vinegar, a big lump would come out on the side of my head that would burn and ache at the site of that lump. I would cry because of the pain. Sometimes the lump would be at the base of my neck near the brain stem. At other times it would be in a different location on my head. I finally learned to avoid the vinegar.
I was also getting chemically sensitive to perfumes, hairspray, car exhaust, gasoline fumes, smells from tires in the tire store and asphalt paving. It was horrible trying to go to the small church where the ventilation was not very good and everyone in the church wore a different "smell."
My muscles started aching in my back. I had chronic fatigue. My collarbone hurt, and my nose was so sore I could not stand to put on a pair of glasses. I started getting floaters in front of my eyes and my eyelids were twitching. My ears started ringing. I had increased tingling in my hands and feet. I started keeping a journal of all my symptoms, what foods I ate, and what I was allergic to. I started writing down dates of my all my doctors' appointments.
I saw two internal medicine doctors, two eye doctors, and one chiropractor who was going to test me for mercury toxicity but later dismissed me because he thought my case was too complicated for him. I saw a neurologist who said that "burning of the brain" was not a symptom of multiple sclerosis. I saw a doctor of osteopathy. A couple of these doctors wanted me to go to a psychiatrist when I mentioned that I had felt something "invade" my brain. I should never have used the word "invaded."
On August 25th I stayed up all night. I could not sleep because of the taste of metal in my mouth, and I felt nauseated. I called my dentist early Sunday morning and told him I thought I had been mercury poisoned. I called the emergency room to see if they could do a mercury test on me. They asked why I wanted a mercury test, and I told them I thought I had been poisoned by mercury from my dental fillings. They told me that dental fillings could not poison me, and that they did not do testing for it.
A few days later, I let my dentist put the permanent crown on my tooth. I had not done a mercury test, did not really know anything about mercury, and didn't know what else to do. By this time the metal taste was gone.
The dentist told me in his office that mercury was safe, and that we breathed more mercury in the air than what was in mercury fillings. He told me nothing about mercury vapor coming from those fillings when a dentist drills into it.
My health continued to go downhill. I was very dizzy, disoriented, and confused and things did not "look real" to me. I could hardly remember anything. I wandered around from room to room, not remembering why I was in the room. I lost my car in parking lots because I could not remember to look at the number of the row where I parked when I got out of my car. I could not remember to buy the things on my lists when I went into town. I would have to list every stop to make, and then I would forget to do what was on my list. I could not concentrate or get anything accomplished. I was just so tired. I felt like my whole body had just been shut down. Every afternoon by 2 PM I had to go to bed and lie on a heating pad for hours at a time.
I started having emotional problems and was very angry. One Sunday morning I woke my husband up at 1 AM and screamed at him for an hour. I begged him to help me figure out what to do. I had started reading a book by Dr. Hal Huggins called It's All In Your Head, about the dangers of Amalgam mercury fillings. My husband would not read very much of the information I found, and was just ridiculing my symptoms. He said I was just reading Quacks. I was begging him to help me, because I was so confused I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do next. I had forgotten to have the mercury test run by another physician after the chiropractor had dismissed me. Actually, I didn't know what kind of doctor could test me for mercury, and I had wasted a whole month without having it done. If my legs were broken I would have known what to do. But when the brain in affected, you can't function enough to figure out what to do.
That Sunday morning, I went to church and told my friend Susan that I was so confused that I had to have help, because I didn't know what to do next. I told her that my husband was not helping me figure it out. I was so upset that I got down on the floor and started bawling. The pastor had the women take me in a back room and pray for me. They told me a "spirit of fear" was attacking me. I knew about the spirit of fear. I had often taught about it in my Bible studies at the city jail. They were right. I realized that I had been thinking irrational thoughts, like my husband was going to put me in a mental institution. My husband doesn't even believe in psychiatrists, so that thought made no sense whatsoever.
At the end of the service, I was in the back of the church talking to the pastor and his wife. I mentioned something about mercury to them and the pastor started to say something about "imagining things in our minds." Then my husband spoke up and said, "I was just imagining all this." I let him have it! I stood in the back of the church yelling at him in front of the pastor and his wife while the congregation was leaving! And we were supposed to be ministers! That is another symptom of mercury toxicity - rage.
At other times, if my husband would dare to disagree with me, I would pick up a ceramic flower pot off of the table and throw it at him or hit him with a lamp. We kept my husband's 83 year old mother in our home and I was her caretaker. When I threw the flower pot at my husband and it came crashing to the floor, she cried and said, "I can't live like this."
I finally heard from a friend about an alternative doctor two hours from my home and made an appointment to go see him. I knew about this clinic because I had seen it on the Internet. I tried calling the number, but could not remember to use the area code, so the number did not go through. The clinic was located in Troutdale which would make it a long distance number for me to call. However, I kept confusing the word TROUTDALE with the word TROUTVILLE, which is near my home, and TROUTVILLE would NOT need an area code. Then finally one day my foggy head cleared up enough so that I was able to make the distinction between the two places. So then I used the area code, and the call went through.
The day before my appointment at this clinic, I tried to get prepared. But I could not get my paper work, my tests, lab work and such together without loosing the papers. I would put the papers on my desk right in front of my nose and I would still loose them! I was loosing my glasses every 5 minutes. I finally punched holes in my paperwork and stuck it in a notebook and I tied my glasses around my neck with an eyeglass cord. I struggled to put the papers in chronological order and even though I was a former schoolteacher, I had great difficulty in spelling that day.
I needed to do my laundry in the basement before going to this appointment. I also needed to do chores upstairs. So I handed my mother-in-law a list of things for me to do when I returned from doing the laundry in the basement. I said, "Grandma, please give me this list when I come back upstairs." If I had laid the list on the kitchen table I would not have been able to find it!
The alternative doctor did a heavy metals test on me but the mercury did not show up at a toxic level. (I hear that this is fairly common.) But high levels of thallium and aluminum did show up. He DID think my symptoms were caused by mercury, especially after I was able to put the dates together concerning my visits to the dentist and the symptoms appearing shortly after my visit. It took me a couple months to put all those dates together because of the confusion in my brain. He gave me a prescription for natural hormones that helped me to begin thinking better. He gave me supplement packets that contained vitamins and minerals, fish oil, primrose oil, and probiotics that would put good bacteria in my stomach and build up my immune system. Since mercury disrupts the enzymes in the GI tract, he gave me enzymes that contained glutamine and other bowel flora. He gave me a prescription of anti fungal medication because mercury causes an overgrowth of yeast in the body.
I am better able to function now. My thinking is better, but not completely normal. Mercury attacks the endocrine system, so it messes up your hormones and thyroid. According to my doctor thyroid tests are not even accurate when you have been exposed to mercury. Test results can all be normal, therefore traditional doctors will do nothing to help you. They either do not believe that you can be poisoned from dental fillings, or that it just happens to sensitive people.
After much prayer and research, I finally found a good biological dentist who took the mercury out of ten teeth. He replaced my fillings and crowns with dental materials that were shown by a Dental Compatibility test to be compatible with my body and not cause an allergic reaction. This dentist told me he had seen other people in his office with mercury in their brains. I had to drive four hours each way for my dental revision. A family member always went with me to my appointments because I was too physically and mentally exhausted after a day of drilling to drive myself home.
When my general dentist put the crown on the tooth, he placed it over top of a mercury filling that he had only partially removed. When my biological dentist removed the crown and the mercury filling under it, he told me there was decay underneath the mercury filling. My biological dentist told me that a crown should never be placed over a mercury filling. That is why I was up all night tasting metal and sick on my stomach. The combination of metals (probably nickel) in the inferior grade of the porcelain crown was interacting with the mercury that the general dentist left in the tooth. It caused a chemical and electrical reaction that made the tooth start decaying very fast. Thus large amounts of mercury started being released from the mercury filling underneath, and caused me to feel very sick.
It is now over one year later and I am still in the process of going through detoxification, known as chelation (key lay' shun), with low doses of the sulphur-based prescription drug called DMSA. It is made especially for me by a compounding pharmacist. It grabs hold of the mercury in my brain and pulls or chelates it out of my body's tissues and into my urine. I spend a lot of time in the bathroom because when mercury is leaving your body your frequency of urination is very much increased. I can feel the DMSA "pulling" in my brain. I also felt it pulling the mercury out of my eyes. That was the reason that I had all those floaters. I do not know how long it will take for all the mercury to leave my body.
Don't rush out and have your mercury fillings removed before doing research and getting educated about the dangers involved. If you allow a regular dentist to remove the fillings, you could be worse off than leaving the fillings in your mouth. The dentist should believe mercury is dangerous and toxic. An alternative source of air must be provided for the patient to breathe while the old fillings are drilled. Large amounts of water should to be used to cut down on the vapors being released. A dental dam, a piece of latex, should be placed in your mouth to catch the mercury particles as he is drilling it out. This will keep the mercury from falling under your tongue, where you might swallow it. A large high powered vacuum hose is used near the head of the patient to remove vapors while the mercury is being drilled out.
I mentioned above that I became chemically sensitive. Do not consider chemical sensitivities unimportant. One woman, with whom I have become acquainted, who was poisoned with mercury and lead, smelled Lysol at a large university where she was pursuing an advanced degree. She went into convulsions and a coma. She almost died.
Another lady in Virginia had sores in her mouth that would not heal because of the interaction of the stainless steel in her bridgework with the mercury in her fillings. (Stainless steel contains nickel.) The sores developed into cancer on her cheek that had to be surgically removed.
There may be mercury-free dentists in your city, but mercury-free does not mean he will safely remove existing mercury. Mercury free dentists simply do not add any new mercury to your teeth.
I would encourage everyone to thoroughly research the links on this site before having an emergency situation. For example, a crown should not be placed on top of mercury. Dentists usually use crowns made from porcelain, but inferior quality porcelain crowns may also have metals like nickel in them. When the nickel is placed over a mercury filling, it may start a chemical reaction in your mouth. It causes mercury to start leaching out of your fillings faster. Some dentists use gold crowns over mercury. This also causes mercury to start leaking. You do not need different types of dental metals -such as gold, copper, nickel, and mercury, in your mouth. They interact with one another and cause much illness. When the metals are interacting is when you taste metal in your mouth. That is why you need a biological dentist to remove the mercury before you have crowns added. Many persons start becoming mercury poisoned when crowns are first introduced into the mouth.
Also beware of putting metal braces in your child's mouth if he has mercury fillings! Talk to a biological dentist for advice about safe materials for braces and about the removal of the mercury from the fillings before the placing of braces. Biological dentist Dr. Jerome Mittelman, has written a book called Healthy Teeth for Kids A Preventive Program: Prenatal through the Teens. He offers a simple, effective program to safeguard your child's teeth and gums-starting before birth and continuing throughout the teen years.
The main symptom from mercury poisoning is the attack on your immune system. root canals also cause horrible infections in the body and pull down your immune system according to Dr. Hal Huggins. Read the book The root canal Cover-up by George Meinig. You can check the web and get lots of information.
If you are seriously ill with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, neurological diseases, or other chronic conditions or allergic reactions in your body, you will need to do a compatibility test to see what materials would be safe to put back in your mouth after the mercury is taken out. Do not take the mercury out and just put anything back in. Dr. Huggins calls this "jumping from the frying pan into the fire." If you are sick, you need to find an alternative doctor to help you build up your immune system BEFORE you start the dental revision. A good place to start getting educated about this dental issue is to read the book It's All in Your Head by Dr. Hal Huggins. And if you are fighting periodontal disease you need to know that mercury in your fillings is one reason people have periodontal disease and bad breath.
**This article reflects the opinions of the author and are not necessarily reflect the opinions of organizations in the links below.
Check out these sites:
www.amalgam.org
www.toxicteeth.net
www.dams.cc (for an information packet and list of dentist in your state)
www.altcorp.com
To be checked for heavy metals in your state, find a doctor belonging to ACAM, the American College for the Advancement in Medicine: www.acam.com
Not all ACAM doctors are as good as others. The first ACAM doctor I used failed to test me for heavy metals. But when I went to the second ACAM doctor, he did test me and diagnosed me as mercury poisoned.
Be careful of detox methods. I would be very careful of DMPS as many have had bad side effects. See www.dmpsbackfire. com. DMSA can be safe if done in small doses. See my protocol for taking DMSA.Marie's Website www.mercurypoisoned.com
http://www.amalgam.org
http://www.toxicteeth.net
http://www.dams.cc
http://www.altcorp.com- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Alice
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This is a reply to # 67,502I had two crowns to replace some ancient fillings about a year agon in Jan. or fe. It was in march that i noticed the growth in my thyroid. I have also had dizzy spells and light headedness since then.
I had wondered about the old fillings but my dentist did'nt think it would have a connection witht he growth in my thyroid. He had nothing to do with these old ones. The dentist that put these in was my dentist in Mass. when I was about 17 yrs. old. I am now 47.
I do feel that this has some connection.
I do hope that you will feel better and thank you for the info.
God Bless,
Alice- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
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This is a reply to # 67,503Alice,
You stated:
"I had two crowns to replace some ancient fillings about a year agon in Jan. or fe. It was in march that i noticed the growth in my thyroid. I have also had dizzy spells and light headedness since then.
I had wondered about the old fillings but my dentist did'nt think it would have a connection witht he growth in my thyroid. He had nothing to do with these old ones. The dentist that put these in was my dentist in Mass. when I was about 17 yrs. old. I am now 47.
I do feel that this has some connection."
If the dentist drilled out fillings and didn't give you an alternative source of air for you to breathe he exposed you to mercury vaor. Also when he placed the crowns in your mouth, did he place them over top of mercury fillings? Or did he take all of the mercury filling out before placing the crown? Is the crown near other mercury fillings in your mouth?
When crowns are placed on top of mercury fillings, they can cause the mercury in the fillings to start leaking out of the filling at a very fast rate. This process in called oral galvanism. It is a chemical reaction between different metals in your mouth. You can be poisoned from crowns interacting with mercury fillings. One manufacturere of Amalgam called Densply/ Caulk warns dentists not to place dissimiliar metals in the mouth together, but dentists do it all the time. They poison a lot of people this way.
I tell about this on my website.
Mercury will definitely mess up your thyroid and your hormones. I had to go on hormone pills so that things would not look "unreal and weird." I also need hormomes and so my memory will function. If I forget to take my hormones, I wake up in the morning and can't even figure out what day of the week it is! But don't go to a regular doctor for hormones. They will give you synthetic ones that cause cancer. Find an ACAM doctor at www.acam.org.
Try to find an ACAM doctor before you let a endocrinologist do anything to your thyroid gland. Some of the ACAM doctors are also endocrinologist. Once they put that radioactive Iodine in your thyroid gland, you will always have to take thyroid medication. ACAM doctors might be able to help you with natural remedies so they won't have to cut the lump out.
Dentists will not tell you the truth about any thing that pertains to mercury. They probabably are ignorant about how mercury causes these problems unless they are a biological dentist.
They learned a bunch of lies in dental schools, and those dentists who have continued their education with alternative dental associations such as IAOMT, know the truth about these matters.
Please read my site and email me and I wil try to help you find someone in your state to help you with your dentistry problems. There are usually DAMS coordinators in each state and they can give you inside tips on dentists and alternative doctors.
Marie Flowers
DAMS coordinator in VA
http://www.mercurypoisoned.com
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This is a reply to # 67,502From: Big14Yimmy@aol.com
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Thank you Marie for sharing your story. You have helped
many people today, myself included. My prayers are with you.
Jim from Boston - Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Bill
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This is a reply to # 67,502Subj: mercury poisoning
Date: 2/23/03 12:07:30 AM Central Standard Time
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i read your letter on the curezone. you may want to investigate what is called the bioelectrifier invented by dr. bob beck. this is a good way of chelation without removing blood out from the body and it also cures people of aid, hepatitis-c, cancer etc. i bought one and have definately seen much improvement in my health. it not only will detox your body of mercury but any toxin, parasite, or pathogens. another thing you may want to look into is cooloidal silver. it's made from .9999 pure silver. it's non toxic in any ammount, and this silver cannot pass the blood brain barrier to cause damage. i've been making it, and taking it for 2 yrs. now- everyday. since then i have not had any colds, flu, lung infections, or any ill nealth of any kind. i've even cured my dog of pumonia and parvo. this one product has saved me hundreds of dollars in doctor bills and vet bills.this stuff works for real, it's not a scam. try it out and you will be astounded with the instant results. good luck with your detox. bill - Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Rebecca
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This is a reply to # 67,502From: rebecca.bta@mindspring.com
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Ozone therapy is also a possible route to remove heavy metal toxicity. Good luck and I admire you for pursuing what you knew to be wrong in spite of the lack of information from the so called medical professionals.
I see a great environmental dentist in Northern Virginia. His name is Dr. Richard Fischer.
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
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This is a reply to # 67,507Dear Rebecca,
Yes, I have heard that Dr. Fisher is very good. I saw Dr. Robert Johnson in Fairfax. He also did a great job removing 10 fillings without poisoning me.
Please contact me if you live in VA. We need to put together a coalition of people in VA to try to influence the General Assembly to write some legislation about protecting patients from the mercury poisoning dentists in VA.
I visited the General Assembly in Feb, and they wouldn't even ban mercury thermometers. We need people who can write letters to legislators and tell them how they were mercury poisoned.
Thanks,
Marie Flowers
marieflow@aol.com
http://www.mercurypoisoned.com
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This is a reply to # 67,502From: barborsi@wvi.com
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Hello, I am having those same symptoms, really funny "pulling" feeling in my head which I notice when I"m waking at times, or when I am working ( very distracting and not normal). They do not hurt, it's just like an electrical shock type vibration without pain, I've just now been able to put together the connection- I have MUCH mercury Amalgam fillings in my teeth by 2 different dentist. I specifically asked the last one to please use the composite tooth colored filling and he insisted I do mercury-silver. I had a root canal, general fillings done by him. He put a gold crown on top of mercury on top of a root canal. I feel like a toxic waste site. I have ordered a clay which is to help pull toxicities off in the bathtub. I'm looking into another dentist but am sick about having to go through more drilling and misery. This time I have some insurance, last time it was all out of pocket- to the tune of $2300.00 ( a specialist had to do the actual canal). I paid more for regular fillings which were done. I never wanted to have mercury.
Can you shed some light for me? The new dentist I have said he did not believe the compatibility test were accurate, and that I would have to pay for it and he would order it if I wanted it. He is willing to pull the gold crown off and remove the mercury beneath, use a dam, copious water, and I need to make sure he has an alternative air source available. I feel he is more patient than that idiot who did all the other damage. I just dread having more drilling and yet these sensations are not going away and I"m wiped out a lot of the time also- I think I'm really toxic. Do I have to be tested for heavy metals before I begin having this stuff removed? I just want this stuff out. Thanks for any feedback, info you can give and thanks so much for what you've already written. Much appreciated, Barbara- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
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MoreThis is a reply to # 67,575Dear Barbara,
I am so sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I just found this message while doing a search on the Internet.
You need to get to an ACAM doctor that understands mercury toxicity. Check the web at www.acam.org. Not all ACAM doctors understand mercury toxicity, but this is a good place to start. If you will contact me at my email address or on my website, I can help you find a good dentist through DAMS.
Marie Flowers
DAMS coordinator, VA
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This is a reply to # 67,502Hey folks,
I don't remember posting my story here! However I want to get the word out about mercury fillings so I'm glad someone posted it.
I just found out my website is now on Google, and I was doing a google search when I found my story on this site!
So I thought I would just check in with you and invite you to look at my whole website where this story is found. I have lots more information concerning detoxing, symptoms, my attitude towards the ADA, why my brain burned, etc.
Feel free to email me.
Marie Flowers
DAMS coordinator in VAhttp://www.mercurypoisoned.com
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
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This is a reply to # 67,502Dear Owner,
Someone other than me posted my story "Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoning" on your site. Would you please add my website address at the bottom of the post? and my proper email address?
My web address is www.mercurypoisoned.com and my email address is marieflow@aol.com
Thank you,
Marie Flowers
www.mercurypoisoned.com
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Sabina
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MoreThis is a reply to # 67,502Marie,
I am 37 and about to go see a Dentist for the first time in a year. The last dentist scheduled me in 3-4 times for cleaning and x-ray etc., before he could even look to my 30 yr old cracked mercury capped cavities. By the 4th appt. & after my 3rd treatment for cleaning, I was turned off by that dentist. I was so fed-up that I actually looked at my procedures on my statements and found he was charging me extra, a la carte this & that for no reason medications, and mouth wash rinses for $50 a cc (not covered. After a major refund on the excess I paid (I reported him), I am back to have another dentist look into my dangerous teeth.
I have serious medical conditions associated with Vertigo and ringing in the ear, dizziness, headaches, mood swings when tired, low Sugar feeling (diabetes negative) altitude problems when flying (cabin pressure) or going over hills on highways. major sea (motion) sickness, I am talking MAJOR (embarrassing). Can't dive more than 5 feet or the ears feel like they will explode. Mouth tastes like metal. I sometimes hear a buzz like static. My fingers and joints hurt like Arthritis pain. My lip, eye twitches. I have 20/55 vision and wear glasses since 1974.
When I eat or bite into cold ice cream or feel cold drinks I get severe pain on all my teeth. If I accidentally bite into a foil food wrapping and the metal touches my teeth I get a sudden jolting pain like a needle shot into my teeth. Absolute terror.
I can't stand humming of trucks, engines, vacuums, vents, air conditioners, vibrations from speakers, or high-pitched sounds from blocks away. I can't sleep at night, I never go to bed before midnight even when I have to get up early to catch a flight, go fishing or go to Las Vegas. Any downtown noise and smells give me headaches within the first 20 minutes of arriving and upon returning I need to take a 2-hour nap. When we go to Los Alamos, New Mexico, I need to take a lot of naps for at least 48 hours before I can feel normal.
I get joint pains, twitching, and muscle spasms on my feet and thighs, and I have "fat tumors" on my back. I had a 2"x2"x1" benign tumor removed from my left breast in 2000. I was misdiagnosed with fibrocystic disease for two years before a radiologist found it and by then it was an acute chronic infection giving me fevers and such. I have severe psoriasis? I use moisture soap and Nivea enriched milk lotion and Baby Oil on my skin but my skin is still very dry even though I drink a lot of water and I urinate 3 times more than the average person at any age (my whole life). I get up at night about three times to go.
I have emotional outbursts and crying fits that I almost feel that my body is falling apart. I was a gymnast in school, an honors student, and I am still a high achiever except that now with my age, the physical illness and the dread of going to another dentist has me nervous. I vist the Dr. about 1-3 times a month.
I needed to have my wisdom teeth removed since my pregnancy 10 years ago but the dentist at the time suggested I wait until after the baby was born, I waited about 8 years.....
When I did get the courage that dentist took advantage of me.
I need to have all the mercury fillings replaced. My insurance will only pay to have them replaced with the desirable "white composite" if the old fillings are decayed and cracked. Otherwise they consider it cosmetic.
In 1975-1976 I had these fillings put in. My husband is 30 yrs. old and is almost as old as my fillings. I think time is on my side and I am sure I will have them replaced but I am worried about having a dentist that will not know what he is doing or how to avoid any "leaks" and making sure the entire filling has been completely removed and if I will have the proper breathing apparatus.
By the way, regarding metal mixtures: I work in the office of a huge aluminum melting facility. I am not directly with the furnaces or near them but I can imagine the ventilation systems in this old building must be having some effect (?)
One more thing, my oldest cousin 45 yrs. old, recently had her thyroid removed and she had 3rd stage cancer, is undergoing radiation and her daughter the "Dental Assistant", has been recently diagnosed with Graves disease. My younger sister (30) also has Graves disease and a heart condition she doesn't want to talk about but takes medicine for, and they all think it's God's will. I am not too sure. All of us sisters and cousins (11) have been tested within the last year after my cousin was discovered to have cancer. Some of the symptoms our different Dr.'s mentioned in women with Thyroid Disease or Graves disease say that there is a hormonal problem and that emotional outburst and irritability is common. We are all high strung and all this time thought it was the female family genes, now we decide it's the thyroid thing... next it will be blame it on the mercury in our teeth?
Why are we being poisoned and why is there little movement in Congress with the Lobbying organizations that seem to be swayed by the HMO's? There isn't enough to put a stop to this mercury mania.
I am not going to walk into my new dentist office to allow him to put mercury in my mouth. What person in their right educated and informed mind would allow this? What about pregnant women? I am planning on having another baby before I am 40, do you know about what dangers or side effect to a fetus when the mother is possibly poisoned? (I had an absolutely perfect pregnancy 10 yrs. ago and had no problems at all.) I hope to have a second good pregnancy but if there is a leak when they remove the fillings, what if any are the long term contaminations, spreads, growth and exposure time period until it is safely out of your system after detoxification?
I am going on and on but I am so interested in this phenomenon and the understanding that my symptoms are not in my head (as my husband says) that I am not a hypochondriac as my Dr. thinks (I hate taking pills, if there are side effects, I get them and I discontinue or I don't even get the Rx filled) and that I am NOT depressed as my therapist thinks. I am not insecure, like my body (looks) and I don't hate life and I am not compulsive, I just forget things and I have short-term memory and I need to write things down. I grew-up in a loud big, big house and yelling was a way to communicate but when I feel that my blood rushes and I want to explode, it is literally out of a desire to just run to fresh air, it feels like there isn't enough oxygen going to the brain. I am not unhappy with myself, I love myself but sometimes I feel tired, tired, tired and no motivation. I am a perfectionist and a great cook and I am involved with my gifted son at school. I volunteer and enjoy socializing but there are days when the world feels like a big cloud and nothing is "real" like I am in a dream that if I just stay inside then I won't have humming pain in my ears from traffic, I won't have to eat something that gets me sick on the street, I will not have a dizzy spell or have to run to find a bathroom....When I do go out I pack emergency kits in case of ANYTHING. I have high allergy to fabrics and intense reaction to smells (foods, chemicals, dogs, cats, perfumes and people's homes). I can't eat certain foods like onion because gets me violently ill for hours.
My husband says I need "help", I have tried everyone and no one can really help me. I can't say that I have ever really felt 100% healthy anytime in my life. I am a handful but I have this curious mind with the desire to know everything. Maybe ignorance was bliss. You have opened a pandora's box for me. Thanks.
One more thing, I had a blood transfusion at age 3 from my grandfather in 1969. If he had mercury poisoning would that be transferred to me? He is dead now and the reason he donated his blood is because we both had RH Negative type blood.
I appreciate the work you have put into your research. You are such a big help to others. Keep up the good work.
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
21 y
18,135
This is a reply to # 67,620Sabrina,
Did you read my website at www.mercurypoisoned.com? A lot of your symptoms sound like heavy metal poisoning. I have a list of symptoms on my website.
Also if you lived or worked near aluminum, you could also have aluminum poisoning. When aluminum or another metal combines with mercury the effects are much worse to the brain, according to mercury expert Dr. Boyd Haley.
Yes, mercury that is placed or removed during a pregnancy can cross the placenta and go into the child's brain and cause autism or other brain damage. There is a lawsuit in TX now of a mom who had mercury fillings during her pregnancy and the child is autistic.
You may call me if you like and we can talk. You need to find an ACAM doctor who understands mercury toxicity. Look for one at www.acam.org. He can do a heavy metals test on you.
Do not have mercury fillings removed until you read my website and get a referral to a safe biological dentist from DAMS or IAOMT. All this information is on my website. Then you will have to check out the dentist to make sure he is safe.
If you will tell me your city and state I can maybe hook you up with someone to help you in your area that is a coordinator for DAMS. My phone number is on my website. DAMS phone number is 1-800-311-6265. Leo Cashman of DAMS can also tell you if there is a coordinator for DAMS in your state.
Dentists can do so many horrible things to hurt you. And they will keep on doing them until they are stopped. I attended Congressional hearings on mercury dental fillings in May. The testimonies are on my website. The lying spokesman for the American Dental Association continues to say that "silver" fillings are safe.
Mercury and heavy metal exposure causes many chronic conditions since mercury travels throughout the entire body. You will not find answers for this from regular doctors. They don't have a clue. I went to 6 doctors in my hometown (two of which were alternative doctors) and they offered me a diagnosis of MS, an antidepressant, and advice to see a psychiatrist.
That is why you have to do your own research and seek a competent alternative physician. They are also hard to find, but they are around. Maybe DAMS or the state coordinator can give you a referral to a physician also.
Forget about insurance paying very much for any good dental work. Most policies don't pay much anyway. My policy didn't pay for crowns and if you have large Amalgams that are removed you will probably need crowns.
A good little word of advice: It is much cheaper to pay out of pocket and have it done safely than to get poisoned and have to pay out of pocket for years to come trying get well.
I have paid for a complete dental revision ($5000+), DMSA to remove mercury (I pay $120+ each month), hormones ($45)to help me think now that mercury has mesed up my memory, supplements that no insurance pays for, health club membership ($49 mo)to use the sauna to sweat the mercury out of my body. Trips to the biological dentist 400 miles away one way, trips to the alternative doctor 150 miles away one way, heavy metals test ($149 x 2)that the insurance paid practically nothing on, and the pain and the suffering and the list goes on and on. I have paid for books so that I could do research. Some people can't afford the dental work nor the detoxification and just stay poisoned. I am still gettting mercury out of my brain almost two year after I was poisoned.
Marie Flowers
DAMS coordinator in VA
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... alexbsmith
14 y
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This is a reply to # 67,620Your story sounds like my story. I am 41 years old and have all of your symptoms and ones I am too embarrassed to share. I was curious though, do you have trouble breathing? this is one symptom I have that is really bothersome. Also I think you mentioned that it feels like you are not getting enough oxygen to your brain. I have told doctors this for five years now and they tell me I need antidepressants. I have finally found a doctor that believes that my Amalgam fillings (Mercury) could be the cause of my problems. I go in next week to start the process of removal. I have suffered two strokes in the past 4 years because of this. I hope your progress is one of finality. This is no way to live. I would never commit suicide, but sometimes you fantasize about ending the pain. But being a Christian I could never do that to myself. I have one product though that you might look into. It is called Juice Plus. It is the only thing that has given me any relief. Take care Marie and remember you are not alone out here. Let me know how it goes when you remove your fillings.
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
21 y
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- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Mike
21 y
18,014
This is a reply to # 67,502I'm going to see a dentist in the next week that I found through DAMS. Since the time I have had mercury fillings (about the 4th grade) until now (I'm 28 now) I have had severe emotional problems, many floaters in my eyes, and the list goes on. My symptoms are so severe I am now on social security disability.
I have seen many psychiatrists and psychologists, none of them could put me into any specific mental illness category. One doctor even said I was faking my problems, I assume because she was too embarassed to admit that she was stumped.
I have multiple composite cavities, gum disease, bleeding gums, bad breath, etc. After educating myself a bit about mercury Amalgam fillings I took a look inside my mouth. There are a total of 8 teeth with mercury in them. Two look ok, the other 6 are breaking down.
I am not even going to attempt at having the fillings replaced. I want these 6 teeth in question entirely removed. I don't want to risk having them drilled out, having that mercury knocked around and broken up inside my mouth, no I think it's better for me to just have the entire tooth (teeth) removed.
I am desperate. If removing ALL of my teeth is only a chance at having a normal life and feeling somewhat better, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
I was eating dinner tonight, and I was trying to chew on my left side because the fillings aren't so bad there. I felt a shooting pain and I had a strange taste. As I closed my mouth again, there was a crunch as a small bit of metal came out. I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Yep, sure enough a small part of the "good" filling came out. I cried.
In any case, I see the dentist soon. I hope he can help me out.
Mike- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Mike
21 y
17,566
MoreThis is a reply to # 67,629UPDATE:
I had the most broken down tooth removed today. It was a horrible experience. It took about 2 hours. I wanted the entire tooth removed as opposed to drilling into the Amalgam fillings but the tooth kept breaking and the doctor had to drill anyway to break it up. Supposedly I did not swallow any of the filling, but I do smell this odor, like something is burning, like an electrical fire kind of or burned rubber. It's not bad, and I have no other symptoms other than being scared about the whole thing.- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
21 y
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This is a reply to # 67,630Mike,
I am sorry I haven't been back to this site in a while. You definitely need to closely read my website. There you will find information on finding a safe biological dentist. You also need to order an information packet from DAMS and get yourself educated on toxic dentistry and how you can avoid it.
It is a possibility that the dentist did drill into mercury today when he was removing your tooth. You need a dentist who will protect you from mercury vapor even while pulling a tooth, especialy if he has to drill.
You also need to be under the care of an alternative physician before removing mercury fillings and he can help you detox after removing the fillings. If you are poisoned, it will be a long process. If you are not poisoned then it will be a very short procedure to make sure you get rid of any possible mercury exposure.
My website is located at www.mercurpoisoned.com and I am one of the DAMS coordinators for the state of VA.
I am still getting mercury out of my brain and I was poisoned almost 2 years ago.
Marie Flowers
http://www.mercurypoisoned.com
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
21 y
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- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Mike
21 y
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- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... #10577
21 y
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This is a reply to # 67,502I am a 30 year old triathlete, well, was a triathlete up until this past year. My diet constisted of eating tons of veggies, lean meats and lots of TUNA, bulk sashimi and canned. I was diagnosed with Mercury poisoning after about 9 months of seeing just about every doctor under the sun from Neuro dr.'s, rheumotologists, internal med guys, "head doctors", accupressure and accupuncturists. No dr's., could find a thing wrong with me, I've had brain scans, MRI's, as much blood and urine work as humanly possible and the result was that I either had Myositis, (a muscle disease where your immune system attacks your muscle skeletal system causing inflammation of the muscles and the joints and eventually leads to death in worst case scenario) or was "Imaging" all these symptoms even though the urine and blood were showing an issue. From participating in triathlons to not being able to walk, think straight, or become so lifeless and living in a "void" in the matter of one hour was the scariest feeling I'd ever been involved in.
My symptoms:
Not being able to exercise, head aches, dizziness, fainting, bone pain, chronic fatigue, muscle burning and necrosis, weakness, constant metallic taste in the mouth, sinuses and throat, cloudy thoughts, night sweats, jaw pain, teeth feeling cold, radio waves in my head, buzzing, Arthritis in the fingers, wrists, feet and ankles, ringing in the ears, face numbness, bowel issues, prostate and bladder problems (prostititis and bladder infections), depression, eye pain, thoughts of dying, not able to love my wife (No sex drive) every one around me thinking I am crazy and much much more. It also became evident that I was getting progressively worse. I was in bad shape, my diet didn't change.
So, with that I was prescribed prednisone on several occassions only to be taken off due to it making the burning at the core of my body and muscles and Depression 10 times worse. Two different Dr's prescribed antidepressants.
One late night, which became routine, I watched Date Line, a piece on a woman (Let's call her Jane) whom got sick, extremely sick, not able to walk and pretty much described all the symptoms I was facing. She was eventually diagnosed with Mercury poisoning. Jane's battle was about as long as mine, saw different Dr's (Actually the same Dr's as I had seen and was diagnosed with the same disease (Myositis) or depression). When there's noting else to cling to you start thinking that this could be it, this is the key to the mystery as to why I feel like "Death". I spoke with my wife concerning the program I had watched. (This is scary), it turns out Jane lives across the street from me, right across the street. I got off the phone with my wife and made a beeline straight to Jane's house. I never met Jane before, I saw her once or twice but never made the effort to introduce myself. I knocked on Jane's door, she opened it and the mystery unfolded.
I introduced myself, explained that I had watched Date line and that my wife informed me of who she was. I was clear about not being a reporter, I was interested in her health because I was feeling as she had been. Jane and I spoke for about an hour. I felt as though I was looking in a mirror, seeing my reflection in Jane's face, feeling as though we were on the same physical scape. It's amazing to think this person lives across the street from me, shared the same fate as I had, seen the same dr's (Rheumotologist, neuro Dr, and internal med guy), ate the same type diet and was diagnosed with Myositis and a "Mental issue of depression". The only difference is that Jane had two miscarriages. Jane gave me a name of the Dr. whom saved her life, gave her the diagnosis Jane needed to hear. After my visit with Jane I went home and made the second most important choice of my life (Asking my wife to marry me was the 1st). I called Dr. Jane Hightower M.D. San Francisco, Ca.
In the interum I had my analgams removed (I had 2 cavaties only) and asked my Internal Med Dr. to have me tested for heavy metals test. There was a battle to have that done because his diagnosis "depression" would be compromised. After taking certain measures he signed the slip and the test was performed (Blood and hair). Both tests were negative, blood was negative and hair was negative but a bit on the high side of the normal range. After 9 months of not eating fish, installing a H2O filter system that would normally be the case. I contacted Dr. Hightower and scheduled an appointment. I needed an honest professional opinion, one which was given after all the facts, records and results were looked into...
My visit with Dr. Hightower was incredible. She is an amazing woman and Dr. This was the 1st time in 9 months I felt confident in a Dr's ability to treat me. She provided detailed information, LISTENED to what I had to say and didn't discount how I felt. What more can you ask for in a Dr.??? She reviewed my history, asked what my diet was and did rough calculations as to the amount of tuna I had been eating, for how long and came up with a number which was about 5 times higher than the average allowable mercury levels per the EPA regulations... I was in shock, I would never have thought that attempting to eat healthy could kill me.
I've been under the guidance of Dr. Hightower for about 4 months now, feel a million times better with no celation drugs. I don't eat any seafood, and am on a more organic diet. My progress is positive, I still feel poor on some days, a little tired, teeth / mouth still feel sort of metallic at times and still have the buzzing and static feeling in my head but on average I feel much better. In one year of being sick I actually feel the "VOID" is going away.- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... era farley
21 y
18,643
This is a reply to # 67,653Hello. I am a 15 yr old female. I live in an area where they have had a problem with mercury before, but that was in the river, not in treated water. I have had various of the syptoms including:
Lumbago, severe muscle cramps, sever chronic migraines that are currently being treated, dental problems suchs cavities, root canals, and bleeding gums, severe depressions, dissoriented thoughts, blurred vision, paranoia, sucidal thoughts, dizziness, ringing in the ears, slight loss of hearing (like I'm underwater feeling), pain in the eye.
My mother is also experiencing:
extreme muscle cramps to the point of not walking, swollen joints, adult onset asthma, ringing in the ears, bleeding gums, temporary loss of hearing in one ear, severe clinicl depressions, anxiety, dissorietned thinking, and PTSD. I just want to know if you think that we should get tested. I stumbled onto a list of the symptoms of mercury poising when I was looking for treatment for my lumbago. The area in which we live has never said anything about the possibility of treated water being infected with mercury, but there is a big chance. The lakes and streams tend to be infected, and now that our sparta aquifar has dried up, we rely on those exact lakes and streams for out drinking water. So you can see why I was very worried when I found most of what we have on that list.- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
20 y
17,651
This is a reply to # 67,654Check out my website at www.mercurypoisoned.com and contact me at marieflow@aol.com and I can help refer you to the proper medical help.
Marie Flowers
- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Marie Flowers
20 y
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- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... era farley
21 y
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- Re: Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoni... Alice
21 y
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