Mercury toxicity: something to consider

[WilliamWallace]

I recently have been working on cleansing my system. i was on several pscyh drugs over the years but olanzapine was hell on steroids. i am on my third year of symptoms. the term 'mad as a hatter' comes from chronic mercury exposure while making hats. looking back on my insanity during withdrawal i have to consider my own mercury exposure and its role in my withdrawal symptoms. 

 

while discontinuing olanzapine, i developed verbal tics and jerking movements, similar to tourettes syndrome. there is an article on pubmed of a case from olanzapine withdrawal causing tics. ironically, olanzapine is used to treat tics. but eli lily pushes zyprexa on everyone including the elderly and children so thats no surprise. 

 

there also seems to be a link between mercury and tourettes and i have five 'silver fillings' in my mouth' and looking back i think my mental health problems began shortly after putting them in. some have been in for almost 20 years now. i don't do sugar or soft drinks anymore but a coke used to make me sick when i was peaking during withdrawal. i would imagine that the hfcs, carbonation, and aluminum from the can combined with acid hitting a mouth full of mercury sounds like a recipe for disaster. so no wonder it made me sick. 

 

i have been doing a cleanse and was getting good results for the most part. mostly was trying to deal with parasites and put some the EBV/CFS in its place that i got last summer. i realized too late that i was also mobilizing mercury without a binder in my gut. i was using acetyl cytseine (NAC) and MSM both sulfur based supplements. also organic vitamin c powder, b12 and glutathione. i was planning on removing metals at some point but havent done so. most of the supplements i take can mobilize mercury i realized as they are for detoxing. if you mobilize mercury without a binder you can redistribute it around tissues, organs and brain. so no good. you can get it out but sometimes organ damage can be very long lasting and even permanent.  i kind of wish i wouldn't have flushed all that candida down the toilet now bc it was probably at least feeding on my mercury. itll grow back im sure lol. oh boy love how us amateurs have to figure this stuff out on our own. but i seem to have myriad problems happening that are uncharted territory for most steroid and antibiotic GPs. 

 

my point of all this is i think there might be a link between mercury exposure and severity of withdrawal. olanzapine isn't easy for anyone and any of them can be hard but withdrawal symptoms and mercury toxicity are almost exactly the same. together i would imagine to be quite synergistic. i have also noticed that my nerve pain has gotten more severe and my kidneys are a little tender in addition to my tics getting worse. but its only been a short time and my symptoms arent that much more severe. so i wonder how much my mercury exposure is preventing me from becoming fully well and exacerbating my withdrawal symptoms or visa versa. 

 

i am making plans to get them removed from a biological dentist because you don't want to use a regular dentist. so if you haven't started tapering or are stable and have fillings in you might want to get those out and do a several months long mercury cleanup. it may make your life a lot easier and prevent brain damage. i really have felt brain damaged but i continue to improve but i still have plenty of symptoms. i know im ready for the burning hot nerve pain to be over though and the tics and pretty much all of it to be over. still one more drug to quit to boot. Lord give me strength. 

 

anyhow i thought it might be an interesting link to consider in all of this withdrawal business. i would be pretty apprehensive about fish oil myself and never felt super great about taking it but thats just me personally. 

 

cheers and God bless. 

 

 

[Marsha]

I am very interested in your comments and research we. I have been reading similar especially mercury and my amalgam. I wonder how to get Medicaid to pay for a biological dentist.

[WilliamWallace]

prob unlikely, FDA recently reaffirmed the safety of mercury fillings being the shills that they are. 

 

I would just try and get a loan from somewhere, friends or family or a church in your area. maybe do some work under the table.  i have little doubt it would help you improve your hashimotos doing a metal cleanse and a parasite cleanse. you could also have a candida overgrowth. im not a doctor or anything though, just a guy looking for some answers. def keep of with probiotics but i would just use kefir, yougurt and fermented vegetables and ditch the capsules. another way ived used probiotics is doing yogurt enemas just make sure it has live active cultures. not the 'made from' type. 

 

typically viruses, metals, and parasites cause the majority of illnesses and disease. you can't go wrong cleansing for these things but metals you have to know what you are doing. parasite cleansing is just herbs typically that arent very harmful for your average. doing liver flushes to get rid of gallstones can help too. but i havent done much research on hashimotos or anything. generally i believe your body will heal itself if you help bring it back into balance and give it what it needs. 

 

best of luck. ill keep you posted. 

[JanCarol]

WW, I looked in my mouth the other night, and for the first time, noticed that I have what looks like an amalgam filling.  It's just one - but - I'm not too happy that I found it.  

 

Being in Australia, where "fluoride is king" and dentists "toe the company line," there is only one "natural detoxing dentist" in my city of about 1 million.

 

I will discuss it with my dentist, to see if there is something I can do.  I'm sure that the offending filling was done when I was dirt poor and without dental care in the USA.  I might be able to address it now.

 

As a caution - I have another friend who is in a state of Toxic Chronic Fatigue, and she has several amalgam fillings.  Her doctor is afraid to address them, because her fatigue is so great, that she's worried that the detoxification will be seriously dangerous to her health.  I didn't think about this before, but I guess you can't just go pulling these things out willy nilly, without consequences.

[SquirrellyGirl]

I'm late to the party but am heading to a holistic dentist.  I have 7+ amalgams in my mouth, not to mention a root canal!  I had cavities as a child that were filled with amalgams and I pretty much pin the beginnings of my depression/introversion to pre-teen and on out.  I'm horrified that my whole life has been tainted by depression/introversion/social anxiety/low self-esteem and it could have been in part due to these fillings!

 

SG

[peng]

Just sayin'.  I was assured on this very site by a European dental person that amalgam fillings are not a problem for us.

I must have had a dozen or more.

Anyway, everyone does what their beliefs steer them towards. 

[Frogie]

I just had a filling in a back tooth last week. It's a silver filling. Is there mercury in it now? Or have they changed it since they know mercury isn't good.

 

Now I'm really nervous

 

Thanks...

 

Frogie xx

[peng]

I should have made it clear that the dozen or more amalgam fillings I had were decades ago.

Latterly, I believe they have been of a different material.

[Frogie]

21 minutes ago, peng said:

I should have made it clear that the dozen or more amalgam fillings I had were decades ago.

Latterly, I believe they have been of a different material.

Oh good, that makes me feel better. But I just had one filled last week and she used silver color because it was a back tooth.

[peng]

Over 50 years ago many of us in the school chemistry lab played with mercury in our hands (when the teacher wasn't looking).

I also handled benzene and, reportedly, many of the workers at a nearby refinery washed the oil from their hands with it!

 

Nowadays, these substances are regarded as highly toxic or carcinogenic.  One is advised not to even sniff in the petrol/benzene fumes when filling up the car's tank.

 

Folk with the illnesses talked about on this site can be paranoid even about the shampoo they are using,  wondering if that is what has made their symptoms recently worsen.

Lots of substances can kill one or make one ill, but we need to try and keep things in perspective and not let worry eat away at us..

Here, we can even be anxious about the water that comes out of our taps, despite the reassurances of the water authorities, our high rainfall and copious reservoirs situated in beautiful, clean, hilly or mountainous country.

The other week, the oldest man in our country celebrated his 110th birthday.  He, his father and grandfather, IIRC, had spent almost all their lives working the farmland that fringed the bank of the river on which my home city is located.

 

Don't get me wrong, I worry about things, too.