Adult Amalgam Illness Questions

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NOTE: This message was originally posted on the Autism-Mercury

group. It's now being posted here as per Andy Cutler's request.

My wife appears to be a textbook case of mercury poisoning. We have

just recently reached this conclusion after several years of a

personal " health quest " journey. I guess we have followed the

classic pattern of dissappointment with mainstream medicine,

switching to alternative medicine with some progress but with

skepticism and many reservations, and finally coming across Andy

Cutler's book on Amalgam Illness.

We intend to remove 's amalgam fillings soon, then to chelate

using Andy's protocol (probably with DMSA initially, then ALA +

DMSA).

Her symptomology strongly indicates mercury poisoning as per Andy

Cutler's diagnostic checklist. The various lab tests we have done

thus far are ambiguous, but we now understand that that's typical of

mercury poisoning. Symptoms include chronic fatigue, anxiety,

depression, digestive problems, and sensitivities to almost all

foods and supplements such that she needs to rotate these on a 4 day

rotation diet. Additionally she tends to be borderline in several

areas including hypoglycemia and possibly lowish thyroid levels.

Note that her chronic fatigue is much improved now after 2 years of

alternative medicine treatments for adrenal insufficiency.

She has had 2 hair tests, neither of which were from Doctors Data.

We believe that both of these tests show abnormal mineral transport

based on Andy's counting rules, although the mathematical basis for

these rules needs to be re-applied to these tests (since they do not

involve 23 elements as the Doctors Data tests do).

Specifically, her hair test by Analytical Research Labs in November

2001 showed 2 out of 15 essential and other elements to be above the

50% level. This test also showed very high Aluminum, and very low

levels of all other toxic elements.

And her hair test in October 2004 by Trace Elements, Inc showed 6

out of 29 essential and other elements to be above the 50% level.

This test also showed very high Nickel but very low levels for all

toxic elements.

Incidentally, both tests indicated near-normal Calcium and very low

Lithium.

OUR QUESTIONS:

1) Can you confirm that these hair test results meet the counting

rules to suggest a high likelihood of abnormal mineral transport,

and hence mercury poisoning?

2) Do you have any reason to distrust the results from these two

labs?

3) Before we proceed with amalgam removal and chelation we intend to

order the following tests: the Comprehensive Liver Detoxification

Profile from Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab, and the 24-hour

Fractionated Urine Porphyrin Test from Metametrix. Do you suggest

any other tests that may be important to do BEFORE treatments?

Thank you so much for your input!

Kelley