DAY ZERO (1):

RESULTS FROM ONE AMALGAM REMOVAL.
6 HOURS after, my energy level had gone up 50%
This lowered my sleep requirement and my tiredness correspondingly.
I was very hungry, for the first time in 9 months.

The second very bad amalgam (VBA) was removed with a little freezing, much work and NO PAIN. I was feeling so good when I left his office that I ate a submarine sandwich several minutes later. That, had never happened before.

DAY ZERO (2):

THE RESULT of the removal of 2 terrible amalgams was quite astounding.
I went home and took another 2 hours sleep for a total of 7.5 hours in the past 24. That was already only 1/2 the 15 hours I had been requiring almost daily. I then went for a walk which gave me a total walking distance for the day to 3 times what I had been capable of for 3 months. I returned home carrying a heavy load of groceries, as guided, which put 3 times the maximum amount of food in my cupboards than had been there anytime in the past 3 months. I was in spontaneous good spirits since the removal of the second amalgam. That spirit of enjoying being around other people had been largely absent for the previous 3 months.

THE CRUSHING TIREDNESS which I had going into the dentist's office, had left with the amalgam, and never returned. I began to feel tired at 11.00 P.M. and started to prepare for bed. I felt hungry and thirsty, unusually, and after having some spiced red pepper humus with soda biscuits and sweet cider, I worked on this report until 5.30 A.M. I had gone from sleeping 15 hours per day to having been active for 22 hours out of the previous 30!

AMALGAM REMOVAL has demonstrated to me, for a second time, just how much of an impact mercury toxicity can have, AND, just how fast the benefit of its removal can appear.

DAY ONE:

THE DAY AFTER I had my troublesome amalgams removed and while I was very active and feeling quite well, I was Spiritually Guided to once again play the music for myself before going to sleep. I thought this was strange at the time. Logically, the challenge, stress and negativity had passed. But that was wrong.

MERCURY ACCUMULATES in your tissues, just the same as it does in the tissues of fish and other animals. Removing leaking amalgams is just a first step. Many people, as happened to me in my first toxic experience, have a severe relapse of symptoms 6 to 8 weeks AFTER having their leaking amalgams removed. The mercury in their system then begins going into their bloodstream and they have symptoms of high toxicity until it is excreted.

MERCURY EXCRETION
High doses of vitamin C helped me the first time.
High doses of cider vinegar helped me this second time.
Other people may add mung beans to their diet or take herbal or hormonal preparations to release, attract, and carry out the mercury buildup. This includes "chelation" therapy and "detox" preparations. This time, probably the effectiveness of the cider vinegar, I experienced a 60% increase (from a 90% drop) in mercury toxicity symptoms (to 50% of the original level) only 24 hours after the removal of the second amalgam.

THE REACTIVATION of the symptoms was a tremendous shock both physically and emotionally for my identity. After struggling for so long, such a sudden and early setback was greatly depressing. My music pre-preparation for the impact allowed me to view with patience the reality that the sooner the mercury began leaving my body, the sooner I would be free of its influence. Until then, it would be there, like a ticking time bomb with an unknown fuse.

DAY TWO:

VOICE TONE.
After being in a point-blank explosion which blinded me temporarily when I was about 8 years old, the tone of my voice had changed. It had become more nasal, higher pitched, and ... as my father complained once, whinny. It suggested that I was in constant pain. From an Energy Block perspective, I was. My unconscious Reptilian Structure was continually aware of the last explosion and forcing my emotions to grieve continuously about what could not be undone.

My "weak" voice had become a constant source of communication difficulty. It tended to raise concerns of distrust by others when I worked in sales. Even though I was telling the truth and was sincere, others assumed from my tone that I was neither. Such can be a real career destroyer. A voice-training class and Toastmaster's Club membership helped some during the early 1990s. Energy Balancing seemed to offer a more stable permanent solution.

During November and December, 1997, I put together and gave my first seminars on Balancing Therapy. I was invited to speak to a self-development group about Balancing in late December: my voice failed. Standing for much of the presentation, not unusual for me, I this time quickly gained a lower back pain (Kidneys?) which eventually became almost crippling. I unfortunately gave the example of positive voice change as one form of Balancing success to my audience. I did not realize until months later, that almost at that point, late in the seminar, my voice reverted back to its former weakness. Testing revealed no energy blocks. Financial and other challenges prevented my offering any further seminars for a long time.

MY VOICE CHANGED, two days after my second leaking amalgam was replaced with a non-amalgam filling. In other words, my vocal chords relaxed into a normal state. There were no other changes at the time in finances, diet, relationship, job, or healthcare to account for the sudden change. As the mercury began to leave my system, my voice wavered for a day between weak and strong ... and then stabilized as my degree of toxic influence declined to 30% of what it had been while the amalgams were present. As I progressed through my detox period, my voice tone would keep changing back and forth as my toxicity level for the hour or day exceeded about 50% of what it had been before the 2 recent amalgam removals.

DAY THREE:

HAIR GROWTH
When my mercury toxicity decreased to about 30% of its earlier level, my hair growth and scalp health improved. During periods of better health, parts of my beard on either side of my chin had developed thick hair. These had tended to irritate me, and, if left to grow as a full beard, or, shaved daily ... they tended to become ingrown. Consequently, there was a regular grooming activity during those times in removing the offending hairs with tweezers ... sometimes to the point of leaving a "bald spot" the size of a quarter coin.

I HAD NOT HAD ANY IRRITATION from these hairs in almost 6 years --- since the time I had originally planned on having my extensive dental reworking done. I would never have remembered it, except, now, several hairs erupted with their old customary irritation. Their removal was demanded and effected. The only explanation is that the mercury levels in my system never decreased below about 30% of my recent high over the previous 6 years. Now, a dramatic decrease had spurred new and healthier hair growth.

A LIGHT CASE OF DANDRUFF vanished during those times when the level of toxicity was lower.
Increases in refined sugar in the diet parallel an intensity of dandruff. This is because refined sugar depletes our resources of zinc. Zinc deficiency produces skin ailments. Dandruff is a skin ailment. I had restricted my use of refined sugar to nil for many years. Mercury also removes or diminishes the influence of zinc in our system resulting in symptoms of zinc deficiency: skin ailments, illness susceptibility, slow healing, low libido, low fertility.

DAY FOUR:

SHOWERS I had taken daily for bathing for many years.
Particularly during periods of being out-of-doors for long periods in cold weather, or, sleeping in a cold environment ...I had appreciated a long hot shower to warm up my inner body. During the 3 months previous to the removal of these 2 amalgams, taking a daily long hot shower had become almost a ritual. There had been no conscious choice to it. It simply seemed inadequate until my body became warmer. Now, suddenly, I began taking showers which were half as long. Again, there was no conscious decision to do so, it just happened.

WEARING SOCKS to bed had never been a sleeping habit of mine even when I was sleeping in a sleeping bag in 32 degree F. weather. During the previous 3 months, sleeping with TWO pairs of socks on had also developed into a ritual ... that just seemed to happen. A symptom of mercury toxicity is a cooling of the body core and extremities. Mercury toxicity is also indicated as making diabetic symptoms worse ... of which one is poor circulation in the extremities. Unless my mercury toxicity level increased a lot during my detoxification period, I never felt the "need" for long showers and sleep socks.

DAY FIVE:

MORE ENERGY was obvious by this time.
When I was even half healthy, it was a trait of mine to naturally walk quickly.
I typically took 2 steps at once going up stairs and was greatly tired when forced to go one by one. During the acute period in mid-March and during much of the mid-June to end-of-August period, I had been just the opposite. I had become so easily tired that sometimes I could barely climb one step at a time. It had also become all I could do to walk at a slow pace and continue in a straight line. Normally, I would have been able to walk for half a day and not become tired. During these times, a walk of 5 or 10 minutes had tired me out. This was the first day after my 2 amalgam removals that my energy had been really tested.

SLOW MOVEMENTS during sitting and rising had also been particularly present during the previous 3 months. It was not a conscious choice. It just evolved as an unconscious pattern. It startled me when I first noticed it consciously. It was as if I were watching myself sitting and rising in slow motion. I was not trying to be over careful. I experienced no fear or concern or pain at the time. This "slowing down" of movements can also be an indicator of mercury toxicity.

Today, I had several appointments to go to and a number of subway and bus routes to follow, each with entry and exit stairs. In spite of only having had 6 hours sleep, I was able to remain active ALL day at the faster pace that I would normally take.

I had an ACUPUNCTURE appointment late in the afternoon.
Blisters again formed around a few of the points. Some would remain for as long as a week.

DAY SIX:

THE RADIO became an unusual indicator of my improvement today and an indicator of my degree of toxicity during the subsequent detoxification days. I was guided to listen to a light rock music station for the entire day. To my amazement, I was able to carry on with some computer work, news-clipping, filing, and reading ... without distraction or annoyance for over 12 hours. Remember this.

It seemed like an odd thing to do for I had gradually got into the habit of NOT listening to anything on the radio excepting the odd documentary over the previous 5 years. In fact, it had reached a point where listening to ANY daytime radio broadcast for more than a few minutes at a time would become very distracting and raise feelings of anxiety and frustration in me. At the time, there were rationalizations which were plausible concerning the quality of the music, yet, for me to keep a clear focus on what I was doing ... radios were off.

Now, quite unexpectedly, I was not bothered by a radio playing in the background for not just minutes ... but for the whole day. In fact, I noticed that my short-term memory had improved and I was remembering tunes and words during and at the end of the day. That had not happened for at least 4 years!

URINE
We see it every day but what does it tell us?
By this day, I became aware that my urine had returned to its "normal" amber color. It was at this point that I became aware that since sometime in June, almost 3 months before, my urine had become clear. My diet had not changed between then and now, so there had to be some other explanation.

When your kidneys are working well, they remove metabolic toxins from your blood and tissues. If uric acid is not removed and excreted, it builds up in your muscles and joints, and, gives you arthritic - gout symptoms of pain and stiffness. If the kidneys are weak, this lack of acid removal is one indication. One of the major organs of mercury accumulation is the Kidneys. Symptoms of mercury toxicity include arthritic-like pains and stiffness ... as well as Kidney damage. During the period of my most severely indicated mercury toxicity, my Kidney meridian (and the others which worked with it) was at its weakest, and, my urine was clear. Now that the worst leaking amalgams were out, my Kidneys were working better, and, my urine was back to a more normal color as an indicator.

DAY SEVEN:

DIET can make a huge difference when you have mercury toxicity.
Whether you are absorbing a lot of mercury from the environment, leaking amalgams, or, experiencing its influence as it comes out of solution in your organs and tissues ... your diet can have a huge impact. I had intuitively given up cheeses, meats, milk products, beans, eggs, bread ... during the recent months when my health had been notably poor. They all took a long time to digest and required lots of bacterial and enzyme action. Mercury slows, kills, and mutates bacteria. It also negates the influence of many enzymes. My Spiritually Guided diets had consisted of the cheapest and easiest-to-digest combinations of foods.

Today, the challenge came in the form of having to eat a very limited diet for two meals as I was the guest of a close relative. They could only offer the food selection which was also prepared for them. In both cases, it consisted mainly of pork. This proved to be a real digestive burden when my system was still weak and trying to both recover and get rid of a mercury accumulation. After each meal, I became exceedingly sleepy and tired for about 2 hours. Another time, I would have to avoid the meal by asserting that I was on a special diet temporarily ... and perhaps even take food with me.

DAY TEN:

WORST DAY AFTER
Symptom-wise, this day was dramatic.
For the next 2 days I would have to go entirely off the vinegar-tuna-tomato soup for it was releasing too much mercury into my system. My Kidneys, in my lower middle back, were sore all day. I was annoyed by the radio after it had only been on for 5 MINUTES. I could do almost no work. I slept for about 17 hours. Any degree of thinking or activity were out of the question unless I wanted to experience a high degree of fatigue, frustration, disorientation, muscle and joint soreness. Better to sleep. Consider how this experience might affect someone else who is unaware of what or why they are responding this way ... and neither are those around them!

PREDICTABILITY relates to your KNOWLEDGE OF THE VARIABLES.
Mercury is known to leave different tissues and organs at different rates, and, according to as yet not well understood biological cycles which range from minutes to hours to weeks. Symptom expression does not necessarily parallel mercury toxicity during a stage of detoxification. It will depend upon your starting level of mercury accumulation, the healthfulness of your blood and lymph circulatory systems, the choice of mercury releasing components you use, and, the choice of excretion enabling components you use. Different tissues release mercury at different rates even in relation to the same facilitating food, hormone, or other component. Just dumping it into the blood does not mean that your kidneys and bowels can extract it and excrete it.

DAY 11:

This day proved to be a substantial improvement from yesterday.
I still slept quite a bit, about 14 hours. I was still able to go for a walk, do quite a bit of reading, filing, and clipping. In the evening, after a large cocoa with honey, I completed my final 3 hours of sleep to escape muscle spasms. I was then clear headed, and hungry. I worked for the next 7 hours on the computer, having more vinegar-tomato soup in the middle of the time.

MASS MEDIA (radio, TV, tapes):
On the 6th day after having my 3rd and 4th remaining amalgams removed I had been able to listen to light rock music on a radio station, without any anxiety or discomfort ... for 12 hours. Several days earlier, more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time of the same music would have been too much. As mercury began to leave my cells, my blood mercury must have risen ... possibly to 60% of the pre-removal toxicity. On the 10th day, I was back to the 5 minute listening limit. On the 11th day, an hour was quite acceptable. To the extent that I chose to test myself further, a parallel would follow between comfortable listening durations and probable changes in blood mercury toxicity.

CONSIDER THIS:
Learning disorders, memory impairment, apparent declines in awareness and intelligence, and increased self-absorption ... can all be seen as extensions of an inability to cope with external stimuli. If too much energy and attention must be directed inward to cope with a toxicity which is siphoning off system resources, external awareness and interaction must lessen. Over-reacting to this partial shutdown may result in hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, and, acting out.

A toxicity will mean a depressed biological system which we may try to compensate for by raising the intensity of our participation. Would it not be so much more pleasant to simply ensure that we are free of parasitic and heavy metals toxemia?

8. RECOVERY #2