I happily oblige with Mike's request to share my email to him
earlier this week with the members on this list. Sorry Bob, it will
by my one and only contribution on the subject, hope you will forgive me.
Cheers
Hanneke ~ Australia
Hi Mike
I have been following the mercury discussion for a while but haven't
contributed thus far. I think I have written a short post in the
past about my health issues which stemmed from mercury poisoning,
mainly amalgam fillings. But with the archives down I can't look it up.
I am all in favour of having amalgams removed and I write below
why. There is also a support group on yahoo, adult-metal-chelation
where Andrew Cutler appears regularly. One can ask him questions
directly. I got his book here and dearly wished I had that sort of
information when I was dealing with it in the late 70's. Would have
been a short cut too incredible to be possible, and I'm sure I
wouldn't have felt the lone ranger in my search for better health.
I had a tentative MS diagnosis three months after giving birth to my
youngest daughter (1978). The sight in my left eye was gone, and
most symptoms I had were said to be consistent with MS (rubbery
legs, tremors, band around head, no knee reflexes and other). This
was a scary time with still some belief in the medical system
left. That latest health hiccup came on top of niggling health
issues that I had been experiencing for years ( trouble
conceiving, trouble keeping weight on, brain fog, emotional about
the tiniest things, ongoing colds and sinus problems, looking not
healthy and quite a few others I have forgotten about. Basically, I
was always sick with something, and they never could tell me what).
Since I rejected the suggestion of it being MS I started doing my own
research (this all started in 1978), it took me 10 full years of
doggedly reading all and everything I could get my hands on. Since
most of my 'complaints' were said to be in my head, I tried to get
access to the library of a psychiatric hospital too. With English
being my second language I had trouble understanding all the
academic dithering but my searching was on the right track, Was a
gut feeling and I just kept going.
In 1988 I thought I had enough info to decide for myself it was
mercury poisoning, I had to decide for myself coz no doctor was
willing to touch it. In their eyes I was a head case in need of
psychiatric drugs, just being deluded by the idea of something else
causing my health problems.
I didn't think I had anything to lose by going ahead following my gut
feelings, there wasn't much left of me anyway.
I had all my amalgams removed. Was it professionally done?? Apart
from the dam in mouth, and following the protocol of having it done
in the shortest possible time (1 quadrant per week), I don't think
all the guidelines I have been learning about in the last couple of
years were attended to, including no chelation program. Only advise
I was given afterwards was to drink lots and lots of water.
For me, with my health worn down so much, I was so skinny that a
description of bag of bones was appropriate, I was ready for a wheel
chair. Suffering severe depression, no appetite to speak of,
insomnia, looking like death warmed up and feeling worse...lol
all this changed fairly soon after the amalgams were removed.
The best thing after my dentist worked on left lower quadrant, was
that sight in my left eye which had returned over time minus the
colour, improved almost overnight!!! I had colour sight in right eye
but it never restored fully in left eye after initially going blind
in that eye. Removal of the fillings on that quadrant restored most
of it and returned to normal in the months following the
removal. Was it a filling pressing on a nerve in that section? I
will never know.
I do believe that a mercury poisoned system is unable to absorb
nutrients properly which has a domino effect on every system within
the body and culminating in total breakdown.
Further improvements in health occurred. Appetite returned although
never been abundant. I looked a 'million' dollars ... lol... people
started commenting on how I looked, no longer greyish, sickly, but
got colour back in my face. I still had plenty of health issues to
attend to which I contribute to the fact that the mercury poisoning
had done a thorough job on my overall health and had shot my immune
system. I had taken away the source of continuous poisoning but
with no chelation program in place , not taken care of the damaging
mercury which had settled in tissue. And even after 18 years I am
still dealing with some of it.
My diet changed dramatically too as a result. Multiple allergy
testing (in 1986)brought out that I was allergic to just about
anything that others took for granted. Most I have overcome through
mercury removal. Dairy is one I will always have to put up with, bit
tough on someone who comes from cheese country ...lol.
Over the years I have had diagnosis for arthritis, fibro,
ME, possibly lupus, and you name it.. but I can't be bothered
sorting through them individually, they all from the same sector:
auto immune diseases. Apparently a great milking cow for the
pharmaceutical industry. Why treat them as one if you can make people
believe they have all these different things ay.
I don't take any medication, not even a panadol.. whatever I do is
through alternative methods, electro medicine, herbal, and life
style. And best news is, getting on top of most of health probs that
surface. I am still looking into finding the trigger for Dercum's,
another auto immune system complication, and my bet is that it is
mercury poisoning related. Mercury crosses the blood brain barrier
and settles on the pituitary gland and hypothalamus deregulating all
and everything hormonal, causing the whole endocrine system to go
haywire. Unfortunately, most Dercum's people on the support group
still follow main stream views and sincerely believe they have all
these specific illnesses (which means most are in the process of
poisoning themselves with truckloads of drugs to deal with
them). Can't get my doctor interested as yet that there might be
mercury connection... I might be wrong of course, but I might be
right. Planning on a chelation course, not sure what as yet other
than chlorella, sulfur foods, Nenah's post looks interesting to say
the least.
This is about it Mike...... it has been quite a journey I don't
wish on anyone but learned so much, probably would do it all over again ;)
Good luck with the removal of mercury. Chelation is an important part of it.
Hanneke.
PS: I knew I forgot something: my confirmation that it was mercury
poisoning was when I needed 3 HepB vaccinations ( work on ambulance)
which caused slight neurological symptoms to return. This was in
2000. A required bloodtest didn't show antibodies and was offered a
4th one to 'fix that'. Instead I asked what was in vaccinations :
Thimerosal, derivative of Mercury. NOT impressed. About that time I
obtained computer and got internet here, the rest is history...lol.
