Guest guest Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 > Does anyone have vertical lines or ridges on their fingernails? I > read that they could indicate many health problems including heavy > metals in your system. > Barbara Hi Barbara, Page 62 of Amalgam illness. " All heavy metals cause Mees' lines on the nails. these usually begin a few months after significant exposeure starts and may be useful in identifying the source of exposure - dental amalgams or some unregcognised source - if you remember when they started. " I did Google " Mees lines " and the pictures look like the ridges on my nails, so i assume i have them. That is the sum total of my knowledge of mees lines. Let me know if u find something else out about them. Sunshine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Hi Barbara Yes I have had strange ridges on my nails for over 15 years. I think they are something of a cross between Beau's lines and Mee's lines, but whatever they started around the time i had a bridging amalgam over 2 pre-molars. Touching the gum tissue at both sides of course, by the drill-and-fill obsessed moron who 'introduced' me to the poison that is mercury. Funnily enough this is when my IBS started too. Anyway. It is mainly my thumbnails that are affected now; from the side they appear to have grown in undulating 'waves'. At one time they were incredibly dry and split down the middle too. Thankfully they are just misshapen nowadays. Interestingly, my middle fingernails have considerably smoothed out like the rest since amalgam removal 30 months ago. The ultra-skeptical doctors i have seen (and attempted to explain about amalgam to) seem to dismiss my symptoms as 'psychological', but i'm yet to hear their 'psycho-somatic' reason for THIS particular symptom! lol V > > Hi > > Does anyone have vertical lines or ridges on their fingernails? I > read that they could indicate many health problems including heavy > metals in your system. > > Barbara > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 i have them too. they started on my toenails, suddenly when i became disabled. now also fingernails starting to have ridges too. fyi, this website below has gathered lots of info from different disciplines on how normal fingernails grow. it seems general consensus that most " vertical ridges are the result of the natural aging process, appearing first in middle age and becoming more prominent with time. " however, horizontal ridges can indicate a health problem. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=284566 learning as i grow, kendra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 i have them too. they started on my toenails, suddenly when i became disabled. now also fingernails starting to have ridges too. fyi, this website below has gathered lots of info from different disciplines on how normal fingernails grow. it seems general consensus that most " vertical ridges are the result of the natural aging process, appearing first in middle age and becoming more prominent with time. " however, horizontal ridges can indicate a health problem. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=284566 learning as i grow, kendra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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