After 8 years with this illness and trying every treatment under the sun, its time to have my fillings removed. The problem is my attitude. Believe I have reached a point where I do not believe removing fillings will do anything.
I dread the chelation and the illness that this will bring on. Just need to vent and know that I should be more excited. Only feel dread. Thanks for listening.
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
Not everyone has the same experience obviously.
Hubby had his amalgams taken out prior to his tickborne illness. His main symptoms were nausea/dry heaves and Parkinsonian tremor.
For him the chelation made him feel so much better he didn't mind the hour or two of headaches when he took various chelators.
He did IV push DMSA and for him that med stopped all his symptoms for a couple of days in the beginning. Then as he continued the good times lasted longer. Instead of doing weekly IV's he eventually decreased the treatments to monthly.
When he became sick with tickborne illnesses he initially thought he just needed more chelation because his main symptoms were again nausea/vomiting and Parkinsonian tremors. He had not stopped treatment but was at the once a month phase at that point.
We tried more frequent chelation and consulted several more specialists and his mercury tests were no longer elevated. And the chelation treatments just made him feel bad and did not relieve symoptoms as in the past.
It took over 2 years to get a diagnosis of tickborne diseases and about 3 years before he got any treatment for those.
I am sure he would say that he just wishes he had a mercury problem now as that was so much easier for him to treat.
Hubby ended up with 6 fillings and 10 crowns so he did have lots of amalgams.
Good luck.
Bea Seibert
Editing to add -- Hubby did IV DMPS -- DMSA is oral and he did that as well -- but the IV chelation was with DMPS.
[ 04-05-2012, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: seibertneurolyme ]
Posted by willbeatthis (Member # 31111) on :