Re: HELP, MERCURY poisoned/ Exposure from Removal of Fillings.

> SO basically I asked for help and I you're saying that I am F*CKED. Listen

Not necessarily. You are still able to write coherently - you are not in a nearly bad enough state as other people have been after similar experiences. I personally know a guy who had 16 fillings removed at once who was nearly dead afterwards, he even got clinically diagnosed with mercury poisoning. It took him a few years and tons of DMPS i.v. (later Cutler and DMSA) but his brain SPECT imaging which had initially shown damage that the docs attributed to heavy-metal poisoning was clean by then and he now lives a normal live again. It just takes TIME.


> Ive even swallowed parts of my fillings as a teenager

Swallowing solid pieces of Amalgam or even drinking pure liquid mercury is not very dangerous. The danger comes from organic mercury, vapor, and from mercury that slowly moves from the fillings through the teeth into bone and nerves and from there into the brain (nerve axons are hollow water-filled transport pipes, basically). Solid pieces that you swallow don't remain inside of you long enough to give off a substantial amount.


> Maybe I have a little more tolerance

As I said, even "normal" doctors know that removal of Amalgam is dangerous (so they recommend to keep it in, haha). You are completely normal. The NIH itself says mercury is worse a poison than lead -- and when I took a Tuft univ. course on edX about water treatment they spent 1 of 4 weeks of the course only talking about the dangers of lead, and the professor (and MD) doing that part of the lesson explicitly said "there is no save level of lead. It has been demonstrated that even tiny amount lead to damage" (showing lots of graphs and studies). Official critical values for lead exposure (or anything) are NOT medical in nature. Medical knowledge of course goes into them, but they are technical, legal and administrative in nature.


> when I got them removed he just plucked them out

That actually sounds good.

99% of the danger of removal comes from mercury vaporized by the drill. So you want to use a slow-moving drill and also do as little drilling as possible. My dentist used leverage to get it out and very little (special, slow-moving) drill and a special suction system that surrounded the tooth to suck away any vapors.


> BASICALLY. your opinion is I should just wait here and feel the effects. Nothing I can do to get any parts of this out my body or brain... Right? There should be a way. I was Young and I made a mistake now Im in my 30's. ):

No. My opinion is to get them all out ASAP -- under protection. And have a doctor at hand to immediately get DMPS i.v. Without that 2nd part I'd indeed be reluctant to remove them all now, because you would certainly see a significant drop in health on top of what you've already got.

Only YOU can now how much you want to risk. Nobody can tell you which risk is greater, leaving them in and wait (accumulating more chronic exposure) or risking an additional brief but big exposure. As I said, the availability to you of DMPS and a doctor who's dealt with this would shift that balance but if you don't have it...

You are right if you recognize there are no good choices any more. It has happened, too late. And medicine has only few not all that great ways to actively help (chelators -- and I've seen an academic paper from a chemist where he examined the binding of chelators and heavy metals and concluded, summarized in my own words, that "current chelators suck, more research is needed". But they are much much better than not having them as was the case for most of human history, which has known plenty of heavy-metal poisonings from face-(lead-)painted Japanese women to lead in Roman pipes to (mercury-poisoned) "mad hatters".

As I said above, your state is NOT that bad. A few years ago a text like yours that I posted in a forum would have been filled with inadvertent typos and mistakes, and the sentence structure would have made no sense, and the ideas I tried to express where almost incomprehensible. I would recognize that myself - the next day, when reading my comment and not understanding it myself, but it made perfect sense when I wrote it. I'm not talking about what some people might say is "normal confusion", it was really bad. Not to mention the "I'm going to die" panic attacks (without doctors finding anything wrong in my body), probably the worst part of the mercury experience.
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