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So I spoke with my Father last night, and a good friend of my deceased Mother called him to say that she has mercury poisoning, and is in very bad shape.
She went to her dentist to have her silver (mercury) filings removed and replaced with the newest batch of dental filing material. Anyway, somehow, they left something in too long and when they took it out they ripped out a huge patch of the lining of her cheek and the mercury got into this lesion. Good grief.
My Dad said she wasn't making alot of sense, but she is very ill and the only visible sign of it is purple gums. I looked this up on Wikipedia and yikes. Wiki says you usually can be treated, but it does list recent deaths from mercury poisoning.
And I was thinking of having mine removed. Now I am having second thoughts.
That is very strange, because I have been thinking for the last two weeks of having mine removed. I also started taking NAC to try and get any mercury out of my system. Maybe I'll leave it alone. I had all mine removed several years ago to the tune of 9000.00. Also had some crown work. The composite fillings don't seem to hold up as good but I am glad I got them removed. Yikes about your friend. That does not sound good. I read that if they aren't removed very very carefully that the removal promotes mercury poisoning more than leaving them in. Mine are getting replaced gradually as they need it.I had mine done by a biologic dentist. I was very interested in this because one of my mitigating factors for my PRA was an with an infected tooth. This needs to be done especially carefully and biologic dentists are usually expert at this. They use dental dams and high powered suction to make sure you're safe.
Biologic dentists are hard to find. Cathy - they're like Chiro's were 20 years ago. Same situation/ADA harrassment etc. If you call the ADA and ask for one, they'll tell you they have no idea what you mean. Kinda like AP docs. I did some basic Internet searching and found on in the middle of a corn field in MI - and loved him. I mean, man, did he try to protect me.
I'd really encourage anybody interested in having the amalgams removed to search out a biologics dentist. They say that if you have it done with RA or another AI disease, and you get them all done within a month, you will have a tremendous improvement in symptoms. I can't say that that happened to me as 1) I couldn't afford to do them that way and 2) I had to go longer than a month because of insurance. And, by the time I started I was already responding to AP.
Anyway, I have a new biologic dentist in LA now and he seems really great too - except for being against my being on antibiotics for the rest of my life (LOL). He seems very level headed and didn't want to jump on anything too quickly. I'm the one insisting on a cavitation.
Cavitations are when they remove a tooth (my case: wisdom) and it doesn't heal properly. In theory, there is a possibility of bacteria being trapped in there and there is a nerve that runs from the jaw straight into body (medians??? medias???). IMHO, that's the link from mycoplasma to heart disease plaque. And since I have PRA as well as heart disease all over my family...I just want that cleaned out.
Interestingly - the abscessed tooth that started my fun and exciting journey with PRA was the tooth next to the 'lump that never healed right' wisdom tooth extraction and the tooth on the other side was my one and only root canal. Google 'root canal' and 'autoimmune disease' and see what pops up. Again, a huge connection that they tell us is 'coincidence'.
Hmmmm.
Pip
I don't know very many adults who have not had a root canal. I also don't know very many people with RA or autoimmune diseases.
Except mine really was my infected tooth - something I was trying to save and I really regret now. 2 years I left that thing in there with antibiotic packs. Can you say 'moron'? When I went back to the dentist and said 'what did you do to me?' he said it wasn't him and sent me to the hospital for a CAT scan of my salivary glands. The CAT Scan doc said to 'come back and see him if you have any other autoimmune reactions' and my hubby and I just looked at each other and went '???'. But I wasn't regular RA so my 'attacks' came 6 months apart moving further and further into my body. First jaw. Then shoulder. Then knee. Then big toe. Then they said PRA. And when they said 'autoimmune disease' we went - $(@Y$@
Interesting that the dentist and the docs said 'no connection' and that CAT scan dude knew exactly what was going on. I kind of wish I would have questioned him about then.
Anybody want to see what they dig out of cavitations - go look on youtube. Yuck. And it's pretty darn amazing to me that it doesn't show up on regular dental Xrays.
Pip
I've never had a root canal and I still have all my wisdom teeth. They came in fine, so I never saw any reason to have them pulled.(plus, I really don't like dentists)
The connection between infection in the mouth causing heart plaque is huge.
Pip - sounds familiar, like leaky gut :)
Yep - it all makes sense to me in my little world. Sigh. Now.
The weird thing is my abscessed tooth technically had nothing to do with my onset - the myco that probably caused it is strep - which I had a gazillion times as a kid.
I really want a cavitation because since that tooth was extracted when I was 18 or 19, I've told every dentist I've seen that they left something in there. They all look at the Xrays and say 'nope, its clean.' I have never believed that and I want to know for sure. I think I'll take a video camera (provided I buy one by then) with me.
Anyway, this biologic dentist at least didn't dismiss me out of hand. He's not convinced but is willing to send me for more tests. Which is all I wanted since I started complaining about this years and years ago.
Pip
I have to add these two articles I found on the scarlet fever/strep/polyarthritis connection:
[Case of scarlet fever rheumatism with the aspect of chronic progressive polyarthritis but with an acute onset, cardiac lesions and hematuric nephritis; ACTH therapy.]
[Comparative characteristics of several laboratory indices in infectious nonspecific polyarthritis and rheumatism in children]
Those are old studies - did you find a link to the complete info. And, what's ACTH therapy?
Pip
I saw they were old - like in the 1950s - if you click on the link, to the right are all the related articles
I just got off the phone with my Mom2 and her daughter had rheumatic fever at age 4 and was treated with antibiotics for 10 years. She is almost 60 now, so this was in the 50s-60s.
Guess treating rheumatoid diseases with antibiotics really got put down by the AMA, just like the books report.
Pip - used for epilepsy and SEVERE IBS - roflmao - google this one :)
Better yet, Wikipedia:
Its part of your axis :)
justsaynoemore2008-08-10 10:24:14OMG - is this some sort of Pred?
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And I am soooo in love with the HPA axis!
Pip
looks like a pred to me :)
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