"Karol chaired the expert panel whose research review was released today. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the FDA, the CDC, and the Public Health Service's chief dental officer, were among those experts."
I almost started laughing. It was only in the last few years that these "experts" decided that vitamins were good for us.
And they have been so very helpful in telling us that a few weeks of antibiotics just knock lyme disease way out. Anything else is "post lyme".
For me personally, I don't think I'm going to take this new declaration as fact.
Can't you imagine the money it would cost dentists and insurance companies if it really came out what mercury amalgams do to us? The very stuff they have been putting in our mouths for years and assuring us all along that they were just fine. Posts: 856 | From Texas | Registered: Jan 2005
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God, I am so thankful that there is one more person that agrees that mercury is toxic. Thank you, Tequeslady.
Take care.
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I do not have a horse in this race. Short of robbing a bank,there is no way I can afford to get my 5 amalgams taken out. I also have a leaking MVP, which means ABX for dental work, and I am allergic to all the ABX that are effective for dental purposes. If I ever need a new filling, I would not even consider an amalgam, for the very reason stated by a prevous poster....look how late the "experts" are in coming up with things that have been obvious to others all along. I just won't take the chance. However, I have to relate the following true story from my life, and ask those who think amalgams are the devil to explain how this could have happened.... It was back in 1980, well before this controversy started, and a full 6 yrs. before I became ill with Lyme 2 weeks after a bite. I had 5 old amalgams removed and replaced with 5 new amalgams, all in one visit. I took no herbs, no vitamins, no chelation, no oxygen mask, no rubber dams, nada, zilch, zippo. I had no ill effects whatsoever. Not then, nor later. From what I've been reading from the anti-amalgam crowd, I should have been on my death bed after that. How can that be explained? Curious, Klutzo
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I had quite a few amalgams too. I'm not sure which thing I did or have in my body that finally sent me over the edge, but something surely did.
Now, I'm left with the task of slowly trying to clean up all those things I did in my life that led me to this point. I sure wish I knew then what I know now.
I guess the point is, if you have a choice, don't put more amalgams in your mouth. And if you can at all afford it, it is very advantageous in your struggle to get over lyme disease if you get them out of your mouth and then work at trying to get the mercury (from your amalgams and from our environment) out of your body.
Several people believe and also my LLMD, that if you don't deal with the mercury issue, you're not going to beat lyme disease, regardless of what else you do.
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Klutzo, I have done considerable research (and numerous papers) on mercury in many forms (from amalgam fillings to thimerosal in vaccines). What has struck me most in my research is the interplay between nature and nuture or why some people are more susceptible to toxins, drugs, diseases.
For example, when mercury was used in the early 1900's as an additive to teething powders, only one in 500-600 children given the same low dosage showed symptoms of acrodynia--a form of mercury poisoning in young children. Clearly some children harbored an unidentified reserve of resilience, whether from a biological or environmental origin.
So, I say be thankful--maybe you have an inherent protection from mercury, but others may not possess the same resistance. -Carrie
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Klutzo, I repeat what you posted:
Quote: However, I have to relate the following true story from my life, and ask those who think amalgams are the devil to explain how this could have happened.... It was back in 1980, well before this controversy started, and a full 6 yrs. before I became ill with Lyme 2 weeks after a bite. I had 5 old amalgams removed and replaced with 5 new amalgams, all in one visit. I took no herbs, no vitamins, no chelation, no oxygen mask, no rubber dams, nada, zilch, zippo. I had no ill effects whatsoever. Not then, nor later. From what I've been reading from the anti-amalgam crowd, I should have been on my death bed after that. How can that be explained? Curious, end Quote
You answered your own question by reciting what you did. As I look at it, Lyme Disease has never just been Lyme Disease. Most of us have all figured out that it takes a multiple approach to get rid of it, if ever, at least from the overload.
As said by others, the tick bite was the straw that broke the camel's back. The underlying conditions play a huge role - mercury toxicity and dental infections play a huge role. Unless you clean up your body, total health remains a distant dream. Denial will get us nowhere.
I am not part of the amalgam crowd - I am part of the "clean up your body" crowd, and I can testify here again and again that it works if you finally make it a part of your everyday life.
Saying "I had no ill effects whatsoever" just doesn't make sense. What do you think Lyme Disease is? It is a lot more than just Lyme Disease caused by a tick bite. Once you understand that - you are halfway home.
Take care.
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Even if someone were to believe that it may not be an issue, I'd think it more logical to take a theoretical position on it, but still have them removed....just in case you are wrong.
For me, I had them all removed and am working on chelating whatever is still an issue. I agree with GiGi that these are multi-factorial issues and you have to address all of the different aspects to get well. I am not there yet, but working on it.... and for the record, I believe that mercury is part of the problem that many of us are facing...
-------------------- Be well, Scott Posts: 4617 | From San Jose, CA | Registered: Jul 2005
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