Re: /New member... still with amalgams.

[Guest guest]

, you have my warmest wishes for success as you undergo the

healing process. Your story reminds me of one a friend in Texas

passed on to me a couple years ago, of her friend (a literature

professor) who went through this. It seems no one is immune to the

effects of mercury poisoning. Something good that can come of this

will be your willingness to share what has happened with professors

at your university who are able to influence use & acceptance of

toxic metals in medical, dental and other products that affect a

very vulnerable populace. By strange coincidence, I've grown well

acquainted with many of the biology and chemistry professors at our

nearby college, so there is an interesting sharing of information

that is taking place.

My ability to perform & learn advanced math was surfacing by the

time I was in college. Despite a love of the sciences, in chemistry

lab, I'd be zonked out within ten minutes and unable to perform due

to chemical odors in the room. It was very humiliating and I never

told anyone. I had to switch to a business major. Many years

passed as symptoms, such as inability to concentrate, fatigue, cold

body temp, weight gain and slow metabolism worsened. In later

stages, I grew very thin with very weak immune function. I recently

found a journal entry I'd made from a doctor's visit where I was

told I had Alzheimer's. I didn't have this...I needed chelation,

but it took visits to many doctors to expose the problem of amalgams

& chronic mercury accumulation. What is perhaps strangest of all is

that as I experience improvement, I find I never lost things I

knew. I couldn't access information, carry out complete 'thoughts',

or absorb what I heard, so I kept notes all over & everywhere as a

sort of 'external' mind. After initial amalgam removal, a half year

of chelation rounds and significant improvement, I learned there may

be amalgam hidden under crowns. They were removed this fall,

exposing a lot of amalgam that was removed. I've been quite shocked

to be set back from this exposure & experiencing a worsening of

symtoms again.

I'm acutely aware of how our indiscriminate use of heavy metals

impairs learning abilities in children and adults. It's all so

unnecessary. I have evidently passed mercury stores on to two of my

children who, like me, were unable to detoxify & eliminate it, and

I'm certain one of them received far too much Hg from government

required vaccinations.

You'll find a great deal of needed support here.

Joanne

>

> Dear friends,

>

> I am new to the group. My name is and I am from Madrid.

After

> reading the posting http://onibasu.com/archives/am/1635.html I

decided

> to write you to tell you my little history.

>

> I am 40. I have a PhD in mathematics and I work at a University at

> Madrid. I say this to be clear: I am not a physician but I am not

> completely stupid (very stupid often, but not completely yet). I

can

> read papers from medical journals (and I do it often) without

> understanding everything, but I get something sometimes. I am also

> very conscious of my big limitations in many (if not every)

respect.

>

> Some years ago, I don't remember exactly, about 13 years ago or

so, I

> started to feel cold. Very cold. It was unusual for me to have

such an

> inner coldness. For some weeks, I had to use a huge amount of

cloths,

> etc. Then the episode passed away. But, from time to time, it came

> back again.

>

> I had also some fatigue. Lack of energy. In fact, this thing has

> happened to me for some periods since I was... I don't know...

maybe 16?

>

> The real problem came on 1999 (or so). My brain started to fail. I

was

> explaining a very, very simple stuff to my students, namely, the

chain

> rule to derivate a composition of real variable functions. I

promise I

> do understand very well the chain rule. But suddenly, I was unable

to

> maintain in my head the symbols, the ideas. I was unable to

understand

> it. It was a very big shock for me.

>

> This kind of mental impairment waxed and wanned from time to time.

At

> that time I was fat, really fat. My BMI was about 35. I decided

that

> probably that was the problem. In December 1999 I started jogging.

It

> really made a difference in my life. My brain was clear again. No

more

> coldness. No more lack of energy. My BMI changed from 35 to 25. It

was

> really a great effort, but I am quite systematic and I though I had

> found the solution to my problems.

>

> But on 2004 my legs started to fail. I began to have muscle

cramps. I

> went to a sport physician and he told me he saw nothing wrong with

> my legs. But as soon I started to run, I had to stop because of the

> painful cramps.

>

> Later, I started to have more muscular problems. I found myself

really

> weak. Even maintaining a phone in my ear was difficult.

> Coldness came back. Mental foggy came back too. Sometimes I was

unable

> to do trivial things like counting pocket money, not to talk about

> paying annual taxes! I started to gain weight again. I tried to

walk

> instead of running, but it seemed pretty useless.

>

> So I started to visit physicians. Very soon they routed me to

> endocrinologists. I have to say that I found some of them very,

very

> patient with me. Some others only told me: 'TSH is ok so you are

ok'.

> Of course, hypothyroidism was the main conjecture. Some others

made a

> lot of tests. TSH: normal. T4, T3: normal. Stimulus of the

pituitary

> gland: normal. Brain NMR: normal.

>

> I really had no disease! So why my corporal temperature was so

low?

> Why I was cold? Why I was getting fatter? Maybe psychological

> problems? I went to a psychiatrist and he found me reasonably

normal.

>

> I should also mention some other problems I had by that time.

> Infections were very common and lasted for long. I developed

> Peyronie's disease, a strange malady which eventually makes the

penis

> curved when in erection. Chronic sinusitis. Lack of sexual drive.

And

> a terrible fear of being caught in my classes by brain foggy, which

> happened often.

>

> For some weeks, I tried by myself T4. It is not possible to find

> Armour Thyroid in Spain, at least to my knowledge, but pharmacies

sell

> you thyroxine without prescription. It really made a

> difference. Like day and night. But my endocrinologist discouraged

me

> strongly to continue doing that, so I quited.

>

> I turned my attention to natural alternatives and I discovered

> macrobiotics. This is a sort of traditional Japanese cooking. Lot

of

> cereals, grains, some vegetables. One should do it carefully. There

> are certain supplementary foods that are essential in MB, like

miso or

> seaweed and things like that. Well, on February 2006 I started MB.

> Again it seemed I had found a solution! My BMI fell to 20,5 and I

> felt really good. Even Peyronie's disease disappeared!

>

> This order of things lasted until recently. Now I have started to

be

> very, very cold again. Brain foggy is coming back. It is not

clearly

> here now yet, but I can feel it coming. Is not the first time it

> happens to me and I recognize the early symptoms. I have gained a

10%

> of weight with my bird-like diet. Infections are back again.

>

> So what to do? If I start to look for help in physicians I think

their

> answer will be the same as before. For sure I am ok. So, by

chance, I

> turned my attention to dental amalgams. I have plenty of them

since my

> early youth.

>

> From a macrobiotic point of view the thing is clear: if you have an

> equilibrated diet (from the energetic Japanese traditional yin-yang

> point of view) and you are not OK, you should start looking for

other

> sources of disequilibrium. Dental amalgams could be this source,

> coming with me along all these years and slowly doing its work?

>

> So the next step (unless I find some better idea) is to remove them

> and to try chelation after that. What a problem! Will I manage to

find

> a doctor in Madrid willing to help me to do it properly? I would

like

> to have some urine tests or something like that, to follow the

> progress... In any case, I fear I will dig deeper in the hole of

> bizarreness in which I am already. I see I will probably have to

do it

> quietly and alone.

>

> But discovering your group and the posting above is very

encouraging

> for me. I am really grateful for it. So I thought you would

understand

> my little history (which is completely

> trivial compared with other histories, for example, of parents with

> problems with their little kids I have read). And if it is apparent

> that I am insane, probably some of you will tell me plainly, which

is

> also worth the effort of writing this message.

>

> I have already ordered Cutler's book and I will read it throughly.

On

> January 8 I have an appointment with a dentist to remove the first

> couple of amalgams. I will include crowns! There is a long way

ahead,

> probably. So thank you for being there.

>

> Warmest regards,

>

>

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