Does mercury itself inhibit mercury excretion?

[Guest guest]

Ive been asked a few times by apparently healthy and sceptical people

with amalgams how come I am sick and they are not. It seems a fair

question and I recently noticed something in my test results that

suggests an answer. I know challenge tests aren't approved of here

and understand they can cause serious redistribution problems, but

not knowing this at the time I have had several DMSA challenge tests

over the years, and I noticed recently that though the tests showed a

reduction in mercury levels over time (after amalgam removal, without

chelation), there was also a large increase in the base excretion

level, i.e. mercury in urine before taking DMSA. It seems that as

my mercury levels go down, the excretion rate (at least through the

kidneys) goes up - the opposite of what you might expect.

I wonder what is cause and what is effect here? I trace my

problems back to a particularly heavy and clumsy round of dental

treatment which could have overloaded my normal ability to deal with

the mercury. Could it be this overload which itself caused the

lowered ability to excrete mercury? Or is it more likely that for

other reasons (low glutathione?) I am less able to deal with mercury

than most and that an exposure most people could have dealt with was

too much for me? If that is the case it would be good to know what

has helped me to increase my ability to excrete so much.

Guy