Satori-5 Supplement

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The dental problems briefly mentioned below had a devastating effect on my M.E/MCS illnesses. Even now as I write this [mid June 2003] I am still not out of the woods dentally speaking. I have lost six teeth in as many months spanning five different dentists [see "The Present Situation" section for fuller destcription and tooth-photo].

My GP was brilliant throughout the period in question with regard to my neverending dental problems. If I wasn't living on a diet of 16 penicillin tablets per day, plus doses of 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide, plus doses of colloidal silver, plus daily sessions on the clark zapper and a magnetic pulser, I was quickly rendered bedridden - unable even to sit up. When the Mrs Hall appointments still did not clear the matter up however - all the energy in his brilliant support previously just seemed to die in him and he then just sort of distanced himself from the whole thing. I could be wrong here but I got a distinct impression intuitively that he had decided that I was simply inventing another 'new' problem every time we seemed to be getting somewhere with the previous or current one. Not true of course - as my unfolding dental history clearly substantiates.

I had already been attending my local dentist for a lengthy period of time before-hand getting that utterly toxic mercury-amalgam muck taken back out of my mouth at the rate of one filling every 4/8 weeks. Despite being very ill with M.E./MCS and on welfare benefits I had to pay for this mercury-amalgam removal myself. Why? Because the NHS, while perfectly happy to fill our mouths up with the highly toxic mercury-amalgam fillings and, if necessary, happy also to pay for putting them in there in the first place, simply will not pay for their removal. Hmm?

Anyway, I kept complaining to this dentist of being absolutely flattened M.E./MCS wise by some kind of infection in one or more of my lower teeth - and the consequent need for being on constant high-dose antibiotics, H202, etc to prevent a powerful relapse. He asked when I first suspected that I had a problem with these teeth and when I told him tht it was some 6 months back he immediately assured me that there couldn't possibly be an infection in there all that time as my face would have become badly swollen as a result long before now. Tapping, then tapping harder on the end of my suspect teeth with some sort of metal object convinced him that he was right and that there was nothing wrong with those teeth because I didn't go "ouch" when he banged on them - though I did feel slight discomfort and said so. I tried telling him about H202, colloidal silver, all the antibiotics etc probably masking the underlying problem that I was cerain was there - but he just wasn't having any of it.

Every visit to him for some time after I kept complaining of periodic toothachy pains in those teeth and my constant and ongoing need for high dose antibiotics just to achieve my normal low M.E./MCS baseline of health. He would just shake his head with a smile that was more condescending than it was reassuring and repeat that there was nothing wrong with those teeth. And so it went on and on. Me knowing fine well that there was something wrong in there and him telling me that there wasn't.

Finally my GP suggested I see this new dentist, based in a nearby town, called Mrs Hall for a second opinion. To be honest I didn't really see the point. It seemed to me then that all that would happen if I did was that the new dentist would ask me the same questions, then bang away on my teeth again, get the same negative result - and come to the same conclusion that nothing was wrong with the teeth. But GP said she was very good, was very open minded, and was highly thought of, etc, etc. So, hope rekinkled with the strength of his glowing recommendation, I decided to give it a go.

How glad I was too that I did. She was brilliant. After hearing me out she asked me to identify the tooth I thought was the most troublesome and immediately x-ray'd it - right there and then! When the troublesome tooth x-ray developed she immediately showed it to me - tracing out for me the substantial root-canal infection that was clearly shown there and saying that she could tell by the x-ray that this root canal infection "had been there some time". I joked with her in great relief saying "Yeah! Tell me about it".

My GP must have been relived too when that simple x-ray confirmed a longstanding problem. Although he was great all the way through I am pretty sure that as time went by he began to have his doubts as well. To his credit though he stuck with me then - and pointed me towards the solution. I kept thinking though - why hadn't the local dentist simply taken that x-ray himself all that time ago. All that suffering spread over such a long time - and added on top of what was already a very considerable burden of M.E./MCS induced stuff - and all so totally unnecessary. But this is exactly the kind of shit you get from some people when they learn you have M.E./MCS. You instantly achieve a status of zero credibility and most if not all of what you say is either completely disregarded with a smile and shake of the head, or else completely re-interpreted to make "good sense" within the structure of their own illusions about you and those illnesses.

I got pretty angry about the whole thing and at one point decided to purchase a copy of that x-ray, hobble round to the local dental surgery with it, and stick it, with all the anger and strength I could muster, so far up his arrogant and condescending arse that he could probably have used it thereafter as a backup for some of his own root-canal fillings. But I decided to wait until all the facts where in - there was still that other suspect tooth. A month or so later another x-ray confirmed another root-canal infection. Then my old dog-friend Mutt died aged 15 years and all my anger was washed away by the pain and grief of loosing him. My old cat, two weeks younger than Mutt, rather strangely followed him some two weeks later.

So, in the end, I never was jailed for serious assault with a deadly x-ray.

Ref: Med-12
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Before closing this medical supplement I would just like to clearly give credit where credit is due and say a big and sincere thank you to both my GP and Mrs Hall for the part they each played in getting me through the worst of my ongoing, and at times truly horrendous, M.E./MCS complicated dental problems. Now, having had root-canal fillings in four teeth and six extractions, I am hopefully quite near the end of my long and incredibly difficult M.E./MCS dental journey. I am not, however, out of those particular woods just yet...