Cured from Joint Pain After Removing Dental Amalgams
Hi all,
I had written many times on different posts concerning my decades of suffering with many different types of pains that I had. Since I had my mercury-silver dental amalgams removed, these pains are nearly completely gone.
About 23 years ago when I was 27 years old, my "arthritic" pains were so bad, that a doctor told me that I was too old, I was too fat, take 10 aspirins a day, and not to run more than a hundred yards. Today, I run about 19.5 miles a week on a regular basis. I look young and fit, and feel great.
If you would like to hear more about my story, read what I posted under the dental section under dental problems and TMJ problems, under fillings and mercury-silver dental amalgams. It's quite sad really of the misery that I had to go through.
I first had these "arthritic" pains sometime about 1977. I was trying to get in shape so I decided to start jogging. I already was cycling quite a bit, and I just wanted to improve my exercise regimen. Right after jogging about three miles, I had this pain in my left foot. So a few day later, I decided to run again. So, I ran limping, but the pain got worse. I tried to run through the pain. The more that I exercised this, it would get to a point where the muscle would "freeze" up near the joint, where then I couldn't even move it unless I wanted excrutiating pain. It was strange. I had other strange symptoms which are classic of dental amalgam sufferers, but this was so hard for me to understand when I was so young. After visiting many doctors, none could help me. They would look at me like they had never heard of such a thing. I got to the point that I didn't even want to go to the doctors because they just gave me those dumb looks. Later I found a term in a book that seemed to be closely related to my "arthritic" symptoms. It was called fibrositis. I don't know if that is what I had, but I could at least could say I had something that maybe some doctor would know about. It's a long story and I suffered with this for years. Basically for me in those days, the only way to stop this "arthritic" pain was to stop exercising. Any new pain always migrated to a joint, after exercising. Then I would have to stop my activity, until the pain went away. And it was normally only one joint, although sometimes it could be more. The pain would shift from joint to joint, depending on which part of the body that I was exercising. Like when I started a little bowling when I was about 29 years old, then I developed that "arthritic" pain at the pelvic region where the leg bone connects to the pelvis. If I was lifting weights, instead of trying to run, the pain would eventually be in my arms. It was so frustruating for me for years as I struggled with this strange debilitation. I used to love exercising, but now I was a prisoner in my own body.
The good news is that after decades of experimenting, I'm free of all of that. I'm now 50 years old and I'm no longer "too old" like that doctor told me many years ago. Quite the contrary, I'm now racing around my neighborhood, trying to beat personal records. And I want everyone to know about it, just in case that there might be one other individual like me that is struggling with this and could be cured.
I cannot say that your arthritic conditions are caused by mercury-silver dental amalgams, or mercury poisoning. All I can tell you all, is what I experienced and what helped me.
Other symptoms that I had associated with this dental amalgam poisoning, were lower back pains, urinary problems, severe prostate cramps, chest pains (like possibly in the sternum or the front part of the spinal column - not the heart), headaches, loose teeth (so loose that I thought that I could pull them out with my hands), and gum disease. There were other symptoms, but I can't recall them at this time, but those were the significant ones. These symptoms were minor at first when I was a young man in my twenties, but over the years they got worse. They got so bad that at one low point in my life, I wanted to die. I struggled with my sickness by changing my diet and taking herbs. But the most significant cure for me was to remove the mercury-silver dental amalgams.
If you have a combination of those symptoms, I would strongly suggest that you try to find some medical professional to help you. If any of you have any further questions, please also let me know.
The frustrating thing about problems associated with mercury-silver dental amalgams is that there are few medical doctors (that I'm aware of) that understand this problem. But I think there are some, that understand. Hopefully also, I'm making some medical professionals out there aware that this problem does exist, and maybe they would try to understand and learn more to help their patients, if they saw a case similar to mine.
I wonder to this day, how many people really suffer of "arthritis" from mercury poisoning from their dental amalgams? How many people out there can't exercise because they are being poisoned everyday? I don't have answers for that. I wish I knew. I don't know if my case is rare, or is it a common occurrence that is not understood my our professional medical doctors?
Have any of you had symptoms similar to mine? I would like for you to tell me if you had. I'm still trying to get answers about an illness that for me is still not completely understood. I like to hear of other people's experiences, and to see if they had similar or different reactions to their dental amalgams. I only mostly know what happened to me. Books tell me that my symptoms are pretty much classic of dental amalgam sufferers, but I would like to hear real-life stories from any of you with such details. Some of the best research starts with anecdotal evidence.
If we open up a bit and listen to one another, maybe we can help ourselves and other people in the process. Take care.
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My daughter(34) was told by a doctor that she has fibromylagia and alot of her pain comes from mercury fillings. He suggested she remove all her fillings and replace wirh mercury free materials. She has not because:it is expensive,she can't sit that long and other doctors radically disagree with this diagnosis.She continues to get worse and we're not sure what to do. I know this doesn't help you but I thought I would tell you anyway.
Thanks so much for replying. You have helped a lot.
I did some quick research on the internet about fibromyalgia and this is what I found. According to the American College of Rheumatology, fibromyalgia affects 3 to 6 millions Americans. It may affect the central nervous system (I may note that so does mercury). My key finding today was that fibromyalgia is sometimes called fibrositis. That's very interesting. For what I remember, a little over 20 years ago that these pains that I had, it fit the description of fibrositis. That means that my symptoms fit fibromyalgia too.
Now, the question comes up, how many of these 3 to 6 million Americans, not to mention millions of other people in the world, are affected by fibromyalgia that may have been caused by mercury-silver dental amalgams? That would be interesting research for someone.
For your daughter who was told by a doctor that she had fibromyalgia, he might be right to suggest that she have her mercury fillings removed, and replaced with mercury-free dental materials. But first let me explain further.
Since so much of this is still unknown, it could be just an experiment. I thought of that when I had my shooting pains, when my tooth broke exposing this dental amalgam. I had the link, where my pains got worse, at that time, but how could I know absolutely that I was right to have these poisons taken from my teeth? Where were the medical doctors that could help me? I could find none.
So, I rationalized at that point, that at the worse case, if I was not cured by replacing these ugly gray-black things in my mouth, at least for cosmetic purposes I would have a nice set of white teeth. For me it was another of my many experiments, in my twenty years or so of experimentation on myself. It was the best thing that I could have done, for now all these fibromyalgia type of symptoms are mostly gone.
For you and your daughter it sounds like that it may be a personal decision that only you both can make, after discussing this with your doctor. As long as you feel that changing the fillings to non-toxic ones will do no harm at the very worse, then it might be something to consider very seriously.
As far as the cost of replacing these mercury fillings with non-toxic ones, you might check around for the latest prices. If you have insurance, they may pay for some of the costs. You would have to check. You also have to weigh the costs of replacing these mercury fillings with all the doctor visits that you might continue to do. What would be more expensive? And what other choices do you have?
Before I chose what dental materials that I wanted, to replace the mercury fillings, I went to a naturopath. I'm not sure if his analysis of what I might be compatible to, was valid, but I went anyway and picked the materials for me that seemed best based on these tests. I believe also that mercury toxicity can be determined by a hair analysis. It has been some time since I read about it, so you'll have to research it some more.
If she can't sit very long with this procedure to get non-toxic fillings, is there a way that she could have it done in smaller time increments? I would check with your dentists to see what can be done to help your daughter with this. Also I recommend that if these heavy metal toxins are removed, that you should request a dental dam, to prevent her from accidentally swallowing the mercury.
Again, thanks for writing. You gave me some key information. I write these posts not to only help me better understand my pains that I had prior to removing these mercury-silver dental amalgams, but to help others out there that could be suffering. I hope that your daughter does well, and if a decision is made to have the mercury fillings replaced, and she gets better, please let us know.
Also, I might mention, that even though the source of the mercury poisoning is removed, it can take considerable time for the remaining mercury then to be removed from the body. If you want to know what I have done to help me, after I had the dental amalgams removed, please write back, and I'll tell you what I had done. It may or not work for other people. Also, what I had written on other message posts, is that I recommend that people do not experiment like I had done, without consulting their doctor.
If anyone else has more information to tell us, that might help us to better understand this "arthritis" that I and others have had, please let us know. Even the smallest bit of information, can be greatly helpful.
Hi rhody,
Enjoyed your stories. I had health problems that I know were related to my dental work. I also ahve been studying these problems since the 70's. Had my fillings replaced,now on to root canals. Very interesting work. Your story sounds like mine. It's nice to know someone who has been down the same road!!!
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