Mercury Fillings: How One Almost Took My Son's Life

A Mercury Filling almost took my son's life.

Here's what happened with the filling and how my advocating for our son likely saved his life.

There are some stories about our family's health that I tell on occasion to share about what we've been learning.

Recently I thought that I should share some of these “stories” with all of you so that you can learn more about what we've been through.

Before I start, keep in mind that I used to be someone who never thought twice about

drinking non-filtered water
eating lots of sugar
using a microwave
getting immunizations

Like all those things I mentioned above, I never thought twice about getting mercury fillings either. I mean, why would I have thought that my friendly family dentist put something into my body that would actually hurt me?

Ahem. Think again.

Our Mercury Fillings

Since I completely trusted our dentists, and since the mercury fillings were a lot cheaper than the alternative (and we were not raking in the dough at the time when our oldest needed fillings, and he needed a lot of them), we always got the silver ones.

One particular time, after he got not just one mercury filling, but two mercury fillings, he kept complaining that one hurt. I kept reassuring him that nothing was wrong, but he kept complaining and complaining.

After a while, I started worrying.

I then remembered stepping into the room when he was getting the fillings put in and seeing quite a bit of blood. I wasn't sure, but I didn't recall ever seeing a whole lot of blood from fillings before, but then my fillings were always quite superficial and I only had two in my whole life until after I got Lyme disease. But the blood thing continued to bother me.

So I took him in to have the dentist look at it, but the dentist found nothing wrong. I think we even went in twice for reassurance.

The Nightmare Begins

A few weeks later, our son woke up saying that his tooth hurt a lot and his cheek was swollen. That afternoon he laid down for a nap around 2 pm and slept 'til 5, which was very odd for him.

When I woke him up (so he'd actually sleep that night), the nightmare began.

Half of his face was swollen down to his jawbone and up around his eye. His eye was almost swollen shut.

I called the doctor and they sent me right over to the hospital.

Now I knew something was wrong.

Our son was admitted immediately. His swelling was cellulitis, a potentially life-threatening infection of the soft tissues. Since it was around his eye it was dangerously close to his brain.

Not words a mama wants to hear.

The doctor started IV antibiotics, but our son got worse. When I saw my son the next day (Dad stayed in the hospital with him because his younger brother was just a baby and I was home with him), half of his face looked like the Elephant Man's.

24 hours after being admitted there was talk about him being sent to Infectious Disease because the infection wasn't responding.

“No!” I screamed silently.

I drove back and forth from the hospital, getting whole foods and clothing for my son. Crying, praying, and singing Psalm 23 from the Psalter…

“Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale…yet will I fear no ill….”

Finally, just before they were ready to send him on to the next set of specialists, things started turning around a lot. And we went home with a lot of antibiotics and my son finished them.

Nightmare Round 2

Then, about a week later, my son told me that his mouth felt funny.

I looked in his mouth, and there it was. A small swollen spot just above the filling.

I was VERY scared and made an appointment with our doctor.

The Doctor Who Wouldn't Listen to Me

Doctor thinks mom is crazy and that the swelling will go away on its own.

MD: “It's not just above the filling” he said.

Me: “Yes, it is.”

MD: “No, it isn't.”

Me: “Yes, it is.” At this point, I was getting angry and frustrated that he wasn't listening to my mother's instincts. Couldn't he see it? Didn't he know what we'd just been through?

MD: “What's it going to take to make you happy, Adrienne?”

Me: “A referral to an oral surgeon.”

And finally, I got the referral and went to see not one, but THREE oral surgeons.

Their recommendations were each different, including:

Outpatient surgery
Biopsy
The third, most experienced doctor said, “I'm just going to pull the tooth.”

I went with the third, since it was the least invasive and least expensive.

The tooth was pulled and the most well-respected oral surgeon in our city said,

“Yes, it (the problem) was just above the filling and I've never seen anything like it in my life.”

The “it” was a granuloma.

What's a granuloma?

Well, I didn't know either, but here's what it is. According to Wikipedia:

Granuloma is a medical term for a tiny collection of immune cells known as macrophages. Granulomas form when the immune system attempts to wall off substances that it perceives as foreign but is unable to eliminate.

Initially, I thought that my son's body appeared to be attempting to wall off the mercury filling. However, after sharing this post, two readers commented that the dentist might have created the problem by perforating the root canal and exposing it to bacteria that then wasn't addressed.

Either way, this was a complete disaster and the dentist did nothing to alert me to anything that had gone wrong, and the doctor wasn't willing to listen to me.

Regardless, stay aware and vigilant about your and your family's health.

Tooth removed. Granuloma gone.

No more swelling.

Takeaways

1. Don't assume that others' stories of “invisible health issues” or sensitivities are invalid or “all in their head.” I used to think so. Now that a number of them have come to roost in my own household, I know otherwise.

2. Mercury is a poison. I recommend not putting mercury fillings in your mouth as a permanent structure. I'm not saying this is for sure what caused the cellulitis, but I don't want it in my body or in the body of those in my family.

3. You are the parent. You are in charge of your child's health. I knew something was wrong with my son and though I was ridiculed by his physician, I pressed on. He might have died otherwise. Guess who isn't our physician any longer? I sent the resulting medical results to him and didn't even get a reply. Not good.

4. Don't take the lives of your loved ones for granted. Things could have turned for us on a dime that day. For now, we are all still together. Thank God.

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Do you or your children still get mercury fillings?

Pardon my French but mercury fillings fucked up my life. I had 8 of them. Took me 24 years to narrow down the cause of my continued suffering. How I’ve being able to wade through this mess and keep going I will never know.

Imagine after all that suffering you search online listing your worsening physical health symptoms (after 24 years of mental and emotional problems) to find an article coming up talking about metal toxicity (knowing nothing about the subject and having tried every therapy you could for over two decades) and this article surfaced mentions 12 symptoms and you have every one of them as described.

It was like reading my own personal health situation written back to me, and then you find out in the article that dental fillings are 50% mercury and that this may be the cause.

Long story short I did a hair mineral analysis lab test by mail and it didn’t show high levels of toxic metals, but I was so convinced by the similarity to me and this article I had to investigate further to see were there other kinds of tests out there, just to make sure and then I find out about what some argue to be the most accurate test, the DMSA urine challenge test, where you collect six hours worth of urine after taking the DMSA chelation tablets and you stir it around and take an average sample into a plastic syringe and send it to the lab to be analysed. See a qualified chelation physician for help with this.

My results came back: I was high in mercury.

TBH either prospect was terrifying to me: no mercury and I’d have tried every avenue and high in mercury and I was also shagged.

Holistic dentist > fillings now gone.

Start chelation next week. DMSA tablets. 3 days on, 11 days off for six months. Fingers crossed. The ADA have blood on their hands.

I wish for no financial compensation. I only wish they stop putting this stuff into people’s mouths. No one should have to go through what I’ve been through. No one!

All the jig-saw pieces went into place. Retroactively the whole thing fits into my story perfectly. From when the panic attacks began years ago (a time after I had some mercury fillings) to the metal taste in my mouth and all the other symptoms that lined up with this since.

I know for a fact that mercury… I won’t repeat my French. If anyone is reading this, my lab tests came up positive for these metals but no matter how your lab tests might go get those mercury fillings out of your mouth. See a holistic mercury-free dentist. Try to find a good one who deeply understands this subject. It’s very involved, there’s a lot to it and a typical dentist is simply not qualified to deal with this. These fillings need to be removed a certain way and very carefully.

Here’s a 60-minute segment from 1990 on the subject in question. 30 years on and they are still putting this crap into people’s mouths: https://youtu.be/rF_y4KlUB-k

Mercury removed from indoor latex paint in 1979 by EPA. Mercury commonly understood by everyone to be highly toxic.

Mercury still to this day used at a rate of 50% alloy mixture in “silver” fillings. It is by far the highest proportional ingredient in the amalgams. They should be honest and call them what they are… mercury fillings.

“Do you want the mercury fillings or the more expensive ones?”

People would be shocked if they were asked this question. Most people have no idea there’s mercury in these things, never mind 50%! Some people I know wouldn’t believe me there was mercury in these fillings. Literally wouldn’t believe me.

Oh and shockingly (but unsurprisingly) mercury is still used in certain vaccines as a preservative, even in 2020. Because of course, it’s safe!! Don’t you know?? Let’s all have a toast to modern science with a champagne glass of mercury. Chin chin!

283 Comments

Joe says:

Jul 6, 2020 at 8:26 pm

Pardon my French but mercury fillings fucked up my life. I had 8 of them. Took me 24 years to narrow down the cause of my continued suffering. How I’ve being able to wade through this mess and keep going I will never know.

Imagine after all that suffering you search online listing your worsening physical health symptoms (after 24 years of mental and emotional problems) to find an article coming up talking about metal toxicity (knowing nothing about the subject and having tried every therapy you could for over two decades) and this article surfaced mentions 12 symptoms and you have every one of them as described.

It was like reading my own personal health situation written back to me, and then you find out in the article that dental fillings are 50% mercury and that this may be the cause.

Long story short I did a hair mineral analysis lab test by mail and it didn’t show high levels of toxic metals, but I was so convinced by the similarity to me and this article I had to investigate further to see were there other kinds of tests out there, just to make sure and then I find out about what some argue to be the most accurate test, the DMSA urine challenge test, where you collect six hours worth of urine after taking the DMSA chelation tablets and you stir it around and take an average sample into a plastic syringe and send it to the lab to be analysed. See a qualified chelation physician for help with this.

My results came back: I was high in mercury.

TBH either prospect was terrifying to me: no mercury and I’d have tried every avenue and high in mercury and I was also shagged.

Holistic dentist > fillings now gone.

Start chelation next week. DMSA tablets. 3 days on, 11 days off for six months. Fingers crossed. The ADA have blood on their hands.

I wish for no financial compensation. I only wish they stop putting this stuff into people’s mouths. No one should have to go through what I’ve been through. No one!

All the jig-saw pieces went into place. Retroactively the whole thing fits into my story perfectly. From when the panic attacks began years ago (a time after I had some mercury fillings) to the metal taste in my mouth and all the other symptoms that lined up with this since.

I know for a fact that mercury… I won’t repeat my French. If anyone is reading this, my lab tests came up positive for these metals but no matter how your lab tests might go get those mercury fillings out of your mouth. See a holistic mercury-free dentist. Try to find a good one who deeply understands this subject. It’s very involved, there’s a lot to it and a typical dentist is simply not qualified to deal with this. These fillings need to be removed a certain way and very carefully.

Here’s a 60-minute segment from 1990 on the subject in question. 30 years on and they are still putting this crap into people’s mouths: https://youtu.be/rF_y4KlUB-k

Mercury removed from indoor latex paint in 1979 by EPA. Mercury commonly understood by everyone to be highly toxic.

Mercury still to this day used at a rate of 50% alloy mixture in “silver” fillings. It is by far the highest proportional ingredient in the amalgams. They should be honest and call them what they are… mercury fillings.

“Do you want the mercury fillings or the more expensive ones?”

People would be shocked if they were asked this question. Most people have no idea there’s mercury in these things, never mind 50%! Some people I know wouldn’t believe me there was mercury in these fillings. Literally wouldn’t believe me.

Oh and shockingly (but unsurprisingly) mercury is still used in certain vaccines as a preservative, even in 2020. Because of course, it’s safe!! Don’t you know?? Let’s all have a toast to modern science with a champagne glass of mercury. Chin chin!