Symptoms of Chronic Mercury Poisoning

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

• irritability
• anxiety/nervousness, often with difficulty in breathing
• restlessness
• exaggerated response to stimulation
• fearfulness
• emotional instability
  -lack of self control
  -fits of anger, with violent, irrational behavior
• loss of self confidence
• indecision
• shyness or timidity, being easily embarrassed
• loss of memory
• inability to concentrate
• lethargy/drowsiness
• insomnia
• mental depression, despondency
• withdrawal
• suicidal tendencies
• manic depression
• numbness and tingling of hands, feet, fingers, toes, or lips
• muscle weakness progressing to paralysis
• ataxia
• tremors/trembling of hands, feet, lips, eyelids or tongue
• incoordination
• myoneural transmission failure resembling Myasthenia Gravis
• motor neuron disease (ALS)
• Multiple Sclerosis, see Janie's Story, and Ken Pressner's Speech to the MS Society
  

HEAD, NECK, ORAL CAVITY DISORDERS

• bleeding gums
• alveolar bone loss
• loosening of teeth
• excessive salivation
• foul breath
• metallic taste
• burning sensation, with tingling of lips, face
• tissue pigmentation (amalgam tattoo of gums)
• leukoplakia
• stomatitis (sores in the mouth)
• ulceration of gingiva, palate, tongue
• dizziness/acute, chronic vertigo
• ringing in the ears
• hearing difficulties
• speech and visual impairment
  -glaucoma
  -restricted, dim vision

GASTROINTESTINAL EFFECTS

• food sensitivities, especially to milk and eggs
• abdominal cramps, colitis, diverticulitis or other G.I. complaint
• chronic diarrhea/constipation

CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS

• abnormal heart rhythm
• characteristic findings on EKG
  -abnormal changes in the S-T segment and/or
  -lower broadened P wave
• unexplained elevated serum triglyceride
• unexplained elevated cholesterol
• abnormal blood pressure, either high or low

IMMUNOLOGIC

• repeated infections
  -viral and fungal
  -mycobacteria
  -candida and other yeast infections
• cancer
• autoimmune disorder
  -arthritis
  -lupus erythematosus (LE)
  -multiple sclerosis (MS)
  -scleroderma
  -amyolateral sclerosis (ALS)
  -hypothyroidism

SYSTEMIC EFFECTS

• chronic headaches
• allergies
• severe dermatitis
• unexplained reactivity
• thyroid disturbance
• subnormal body temperature
• cold, clammy skin, especially hands and feet
• excessive perspiration, w/frequent night sweats
• unexplained sensory symptoms, including pain
• unexplained numbness or burning sensations
• unexplained anemia
  -G-6-PD deficiency
• Chronic kidney disease
  -nephrotic syndrome
  -receiving renal dialysis
  -kidney infection
• adrenal disease
• general fatigue
• loss of appetite/with or without weight loss
• loss of weight
• hypoglycemia

"The IV-C Mercury Detox Program, A Guide for the Patient," a companion handbook to Chronic Mercury Toxicity, New Hope Against and Endemic Disease, by Sam Queen and Betty A. Queen

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A checklist of other symptoms that could be related to mercury toxicity.
A Mercury Test by Dr. Hal Huggins:

1. Heart problems
_heart/chest pains
_angina
_tachcardia (heart racing)
_heart murmur
_low blood pressure
_abnormal EKG
_endocarditis
_partial heart block
_high blood pressure
_heart attack

2. Skin Problems
_unexplained rashes
_excessive itching
_red flushes of color
_rough skin
_acne (pimples)

3. Nervous Disorders
_Belle's Palsy
_Multiple Sclerosis
_shingles
_epilepsy/convulsions
_Dr. told you "It's your nerves"
_the shakes of hands, feet, head, etc
_twitching of face or other muscles

4. Digestion
_diverticulitis
_ulcers
_Crohn's disease
_Graves Disease
_indigestion
_diarrhea
_bloated feeling after eating
_heartburn
_poor appetite

5. Blood Disease
_mononucleosis
_false positve for venereal disease

6. Cancer
_leukemia
_Hodgkins disease
_any other name

7. Endocrine Problems
_diabetes
_ovaries
_hysterectomy-complete
_tipped uterus
_overweight
_thyroid overactive
_testes
_pancreas
_cervical erosion
_underweight
_prostate
_mensturation-painful, too often or too seldom/ stopping without reason

8. Emotional
_sudden anger
_depression
_wish you were dead
_irritability
_suicidal tendencies
_been divorced

9. Annoying Symptoms
_frequent headaches
_noises in your ears
_ringing in your ears
_hissing in your ears
_chronic eye inflammation
_chronic fatigue
_do you tire easily?
_swollen lymph nodes
_do you sweat excessively or not at all?
_hearing problems
_cold hands and feet
_motion sickness
_slow healing
_leg cramps
_dizziness
_get up at night to urinate
_urinate frequently during the day
_have insomnia
_tired when awaken in the morning
_have trouble making decisions

10. Allergies
_metal
_fabrics
_soaps and detergents
_food
_other__________

11. Diseases
_rheumatoid arthritis
_bursitis
_tennis elbow
_painful joints
_Friedreich's ataxia
_asthma
_osteomyelitis
_psoriasis
_sickle cell anemia
_kidney stones

12. Miscellaneous
_Infections take a long time to heal
_Do you work around mercury?
what capacity?_______________
_what medications are you taking that have mercury in them?

13. Dental History
_had silver amalgams
_had gold fillings
_have gold fillings now
_removable metal bridge
_gold bridge
_porcelain caps (crowns)
_non-precious crowns
_root canal
_root canal now
_metallic taste in mouth
_burning sensation in mouth
_increased flow of saliva
_have more than half your teeth

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Other Symptoms of Mercury Toxicity, compiled by Marie Flowers

• heat, burning, tingling, soreness, itching of the the scalp
• burning muscles in the back and neck, burning ears
  feeling movement in the brain
• aching of the bones at the base of the skull
• sounds of crackling, popping at base of brain
• headaches right after eating
• muscular aches in areas of the body where previous injuries have occured
• double vision
• crossed eyes
• chronic bladder infections
• legs feeling so heavy like they are weighted down
• L'hermitte's Sign (electric shock-like sensations throughout the body)
• burning mouth and tongue

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Signs and Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning from Dental Amalgam¹ by Morton Walker, D.P.M. in his book Elements of Danger, Protecting Yourself Against the Hazards of Modern Dentistry

A series of difficulties characteristic of mercury toxicity affecting the eyes

• bleeding from the retina of one or both eyes
  
• dim vision, expecially after exercise
  
• slow and poor accommodation to changes in vision distances
  
• Inability to fix one's gaze
  
• uncontrollable eye movements
  
• eyes drawn to one side
  
• imaginary geometric figures appearing in the visual field, which migrate in a few minutes from the periphery toward the center and slowly disappear
  
• "film" seeming to appear over the eyes
  
• dry eyes
  
• a gray ring forming permanently around the cornea (known as Arcus senilis)

One or more heart difficulties:

• irregular hearbeat (palpitations), often together with anxiety
  
• stong pains in the left part of the chest come on

Problems in the upper respiratory tract:

• asthmatic breathing troubles, such as a feeling of not being able to inhale
  
• A "cracking" sound in the lower part of the pleural sac, forcing one to cough
  
• red irritated throat
  
• inflammation in the upper airways and pleurisy appearing about a year after the dental treatment with amalgams
  
• difficulties in swallowing

Psychological troubles come on such as:

• severe amnesia
  
• constant feelings of tension and strain
  
• anxiety
  
• irritability
  
• difficulty and even impossiblity to control behavior
  
• indecision
  
• loss of interest in life
  
• mental or emotion depression

Conditions of the brain, including:

• tiredness nearly all the time
  
• a feeling of being "old"
  
• resistance to intellectual work
  
• reduced capacity for work, both for intellectual and physical tasks
  
• reduced powers of comprehension because information does not come through
  
• increased need for sleep
  
• headache about once a week. The headache often is migrainelike, especially induced by weather changes and by prolonged sleep in the mornings

Neurological complications can come on like:

• vertigo (dizziness)
  
• facial paralysis, usually on the right side, that is partly permanent
  
• damage to balance and hearing
  
• a painful pull a the lower jaw toward the collar bone
  
  

Oral discomforts make their appearance such as:

• increased salivation
  
• often-present sour metallic taste
  
• bleeding gums at toothbrushing

Numbers of other symptoms gradually showing up, including:

• joint pains, especially increasing about a year after receiving the implantation of amalgam fillings
  
• pains in the lower back
  
• weakness of the muscles with a slowing down of muscular action
  
• feelings of pressure, pains, and paresthesis ("pins and needles") in the region of the liver
  
• gastrointestinal irritation
  
• paresthesis in the region of the lymph nodes under the arms and in the groin
  
• exzema or other skin eruptions

1 Sources: Stock, "Die Defaehrlichket des Quecksilberdampfes"; F. Gasser, "Quecksilberbelastung im Menschlichen Korper durch Amalgam," Med.-Biol. Arbeits und Forschungsgemeinsch (Baden-Baden, Germany: Dtsch. Zahnarzt., 1976): K. D. Jorgensen, "The Mechanism of Marginal Fracture of Amalgam fillings," Acta Odont. Scan. 23 (1965): 347.

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