amalgam removal

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After I had all my amalgam fillings removed, tried to chelate and

couldn't, I found that I had 4 crowns with amalgam under them. Well

when I had the first crown out, I had a rubber dam and oxygen too. I

became REALLY sick. For the next crown, I had the rubber dam,

oxygen, and continuous lavage and suction (rinsing and sucking the

fluid out continuously). With this technique and as much

selenomethionine as I could take starting just before the dental

work and a few days after I didn't experience such a worsening of

symptoms after the second and third crowns. The selenomethionine

dose was about 100 mcg. every 4 hrs. --but this varies widely from

individual to individual-you'll know you have too much when it

becomes more difficult than usual to walk up stairs-Andy says some

people get overdose symptoms at 750+ mcg/day. There was a month in

between crowns 1, 2, and 3. This allowed by mercury level to

decrease by half. On the last crown, I got excited about being

finished and I rushed it and left only 1 week between crowns 3 and

4. Boy did I pay for that!!! I was sick for about a month.

You know, you can't take vitamin C before the dental work because

then the anesthetic may not work. I didn't mention that I took a

water bottle with buffered vitamin C along and chugged it right

after the dentist was finished. Then I had another bottle of vitamin

C water that I drank on the way home. I also brought a change of

clothes and washed my face and any other exposed part of my body and

put a scarf over my hair, and then changed into the clean clothes.

The dentist's office had some kind of ventilation system that

changed the air in the room rapidly so I think that may have helped

a little, but I'm not sure. I kept at the vitamin C and selenium big

time for the next few days!!! I also had a list of what to do

before and after dental work--what supplements to take before and

which ones to take after, clothes, etc. and anything else I needed

to remember. I revised it after each session with the dentist. On

the supplements before the dental work, I cut them to the bare bone

and took what I'd missed a few hours after I got back from the

dentist. I didn't want any interactions while I was in the dentist's

chair!

I was always cold too and have hypothyroid symptoms too. I take

supplementary thyroid and DHEA and B1 for them. I'm only cold every

once in a while now.

Watch the sulfur levels when you start chelating! My husband and I

both found that when we raised our chelation dose too high and

thereby introduced more sulfur into our systems, we started to have

high blood pressure. Did you have the test to see if you have high

cysteine?

Might be a good idea! Since my husband and I are both in the normal

zone for cysteine, we just watch out not to overload our systems. If

you're high cysteine, Andy recommends cutting out all sulfur foods.

Also note that some of the supplements Andy recommends have sulfur

in them--taurine and NAC have quite a bit, SAMe and biotin have

some, thiamine has a little. Sometimes it's a juggling act to play

around with chelating, which has sulfur, and the supplements with

sulfur too! See what works for you.

Here was my experience with chelating after amalgam removal:

I waited the 4 days after removal and then started a low dose of

DMSA. Symptoms were pretty bad at first so I looked in Andy's book

again and tried his suggestion of chelating with DMSA on a low dose

for 10 days on and 4 days off. It really worked better for the

suppression of symptoms for me. Then after 3 months post-amalgam

removal, I added LA to the DMSA, both at low doses. When I tried to

raise the dose of DMSA above 25 mg/3.5 hrs, I broke out in a severe

skin yeast infection. This happened about 5 months post-amalgam

removal. As a result, I started chelating with LA alone and it did

not exacerbate my yeast problem at all. (Took OKG to build up

neutrophils and now the yeast is under control.) I don't have

redistribution problems if I take 100 mcg. of selenomethionine every

4 hrs. starting with the last dose of the cycle and continuing for

the day after chelation. I guess I'm one of those people who does

well on selenomethionine.

If you care to search curezone, I have listed the current status of

all my symptoms under ssheeba. I did that yesterday. This may give

you some hope for a brighter future. I'm so filled with joy at my

progress. I know I'll have to keep at it for probably another year,

but it's worth it to feel so much better. I'm in the 6th-9th month

slump that Andy talks about on p. 52 of his book. For me, it's just

a slowing of progress and I had to deal with my adrenal problems

instead of ignoring them.

Last progress noted for me was last Saturday I walked down the

cleaning supplies aisle in my grocery store for the first time since

January when I started having my crowns removed. (I developed

multiple chemical sensitivities because of the high levels of

mercury I was exposed to during the removal of the crowns and

fillings.) Last progress noted for my husband was that he slept the

whole night through Monday night for the first time in literally

years and years.