MemberApologies for being off topic, I just wanted to ask @Beth to expand a bit on her experience here. I have been thinking about and putting off for months getting my mercury fillings removed - mainly because of other health problems that may be connected. Beth, can you say for sure that you T improved after getting the mercury out? How much improvement and how long did it take? I'm hungry for any info you can share about your experience. Thanks.
Do not have your fillings removed because you think it will improve your tinnitus. May be a strange thing to say but you would just start focusing on the tinnitus to see if it was 'better' and therefore you would hear it more. IF like me, you've got tinnitus because of high levels of anxiety, then you are just hearing the perfectly normal sounds within your nervous system, blood flow, muscle clicking etc....in other words, the perfectly normal safe and healthy sounds that your body makes but because you are living in the 'fight or flight' mode you hear them MUCH louder. So, those sounds (music of the brain) cannot stop until you are brain dead because they have absolutely always been there, you just weren't aware until you started to hear them for whatever reason. Because you've lived life without being aware of them in the past, you can do that again.
To explain a bit more; mercury affects many areas of the body, especially kidneys, liver and brain and can be especially noticable when it affects the limbic area which is responsible for our reaction to tinnitus and can, as in my case, affect the acoustic nerve. When I had all my fillings removed (very safely by a holistic dentist) I didn't notice any difference till a few months later when I'd been taking homeopathic remedies to get rid of all the mercury build up. The tinnitus was not much different BUT I was a lot less anxious about it and that was the beginning of my recovery. I could tell myself I was just hearing normal safe internal sounds and actually started to believe it.
I had been totally disabled with the condition for quite a few years and suicidal on several occassions and NEVER believed I could live with the level of noise I had and thought that other people who had very loud tinnitus could not have had it as loud as mine. I cannot honestly say that I know absolutely that having the mercury removed had a direct effect because I may have improved over time but I certainly felt a lot better in myself and much more able to cope with the noise. I can't even say if it's as loud as it was because I don't really want to study the sound. It's there now as I'm typing this but I know it will be 'gone' in a minute when I go and make a coffee. My overall health probably improved quite a bit so I was much better able to cope with any stresses, and tinnitus is the biggest ever stress!
If you are open minded about alternative health, I suggest that before paying out to have your fillings removed, you see a kinesiologist as he/she will tell you if you are being affected by your fillings. My husband was checked and he is fine, his body deals with it but my immune system was in a state because of them. Another way of checking is to see (or just phone for a discussion about fillings) a FCT practitioner. (Field control therapy) They do not much else apart from treat people for mercury poisoning and I am sure they'd be happy to give you info.
Sorry it's such a long post and hope it helps. Please don't hesitate to ask me more if I've missed somthing out. Kind thoughts, Beth.
