Dear Freddd, thank you so much for replying!
I take it that you advice me to stick to my protocol (incl the MeCbl) during this amalgam removal. I will do that.
Have you had your amalgams (if you ever had any) removed yourself Freddd? Have a great day!
Hi Moshi,
I would take some extra selenium before and after an amalgam removal now. I have been taking selenium for decades in any case. I would not discontinue the Active B12 protocol. I do take extra MeCbl and AdoCbl before and after nitrous oxide because it permanently oxidizes both active b12 and in deficient people can cause serious problems.
Amalgams have a lifetime, perhaps 20 years more or less before needing replacement. So I have had most of the amalgams I used to have replaced by composites or crowns in a couple of instances, but not for the sake of amalgam removal. I considered it but those advocating such were 100% wrong on everything else they told me and as I know now, their theories were totally bogus, at least as far as my problems and their fix were concerned. Also, I worked in the group health care business reviewing 100% of plan data. In looking at the data, and going over it with dental consultants supervising plans and there is no evidence beyond chance of it doing any good.
If anything, at the time anyway, the results were more negative than positive. Further the dentists doing it, often had a poor record for professional judgment and did a lot of dubious things and often churned crowns each 5 years (the minimum period insurance would cover) and had much higher rates of doing crowns instead of fillings and appeared to do considerable financial motive procedures. I have been out of that business for 12 years now for health reasons so who knows what is going on now. There were often complaints that some of these dentists would do a $600 crown instead of a $50 filling (old prices) quite routinely. Wholesale replacement was considered a rather dubious practice generally and rarely made any significant difference in medical costs in the years following. There was no visible benefit in reduced utilization looking at long term follow-up.
If I were reviewing such things now I would look at the pattern of the persons illnesses to see if the practitioner was working from some theoretical basis rather than financial gain.
For instance in my own case, looking at my utilization record following active b12 protocol, looking at those indirect indicators, my pharmacy costs are reduced from $1500/month to under $60/month. My total doctor visits went down from 20 or so a year to 4 per year. My chiropractor visits went from 2-3 per week to zero per year for the past 9 years. My symptoms (unfortunately not included in most medical or insurance records) reduced from over 200 to about 25. Whole classes of drugs have disappeared from my pharmacy utilization; no more asthma drugs, no more anti-nausea, no more antihistamines, no more sleep disorder drugs, no more congestive heart failure drugs, no more anti seizure drugs (used for control of neurological pain), no more anti-inflammatory drugs and very reduced benzos, very reduced Reglan (still some due to potassium problems).
For the most part, amalgam removal made no difference, or at least no decrease, to a persons utilization profile. It's very obvious looking at utilization how a person is doing, no matter what they say about how they feel. A lot felt ripped off since insurance wouldn't cover such and they spent thousands of dollars with no satisfaction. Complaints against providers increased. I changed dentists as did my partner a few years ago after the 3rd significant dubious professional lapse of judgment, not including a lie, between us. He lied to me about a redo for a botched job, among other things. As I am my own "plan" manager and consultant I pay attention to all the things I did in the course of my consulting and plan review. I expect high professional standards and judgment from my practitioners.
There are some unethical practitioners out there of many varieties and I call it fraud or intentional injury when I see it. It was part of my job to spot such from the data and patterns of complaints. I have had one MD prone to fraud, I complained to the state DOPL and found out he was already under investigation. He lost his license a couple of year later. He had a lot of red flags. I had one urgent med doctor stitched me up after a mishap that attempted fraud and I called him on it on the spot and he didn't do it. I have had one really nasty sadistic and unethical dentist and the other mentioned above. This is in a 40 year period during which I have had 4 dentists. The first one I really liked but he had to stop practicing after getting hit by a car and unable to continue practice. Then the next two bad apples and then the most recent has been great so far. We tried to eliminate the worst 1% from the plans we were supervising each year. So, I would suggest being careful.
. There is a lot of experience in Sweden from amalgam removal and MeCbl injections as people have benefitted from MeCbl before (might depend on genetics that also caused the intoxication from mercury). They who had MeCbl injections seem to recover better after the removal. My guess it is because we have decreased methylation without MeCbl and with this added, the methylation works. More glutathione is produced and glutathione will bind to mercury. Best of luck!