I know people who have/had mercury poisoning. It doesn’t take much exposure and it creeps up very slowly. You may not notice the symptoms but other probably will. Forgetfulness and cognitive deficit are a couple of the symptoms.
In short, exposure to mercury could cause you to become as dumb as a doorknob over time and not notice. It affects your nervous system and brain. I don’t believe there is any way to de-toxify other than wait many years for you body to flush it out.
So is agonizing neurological leg pain.
There are things you can do to hasten its departure.
Drinking LOTS of straight, unsweetened green tea, eating the disgusting herb cilantro, *lots* of magnesium supplements, “sweating it out” [very miserable experience] and hydrating yourself silly.
I dropped mine 2 points in a month using just those things.
The hard part is maintaining a consistent, constant flushing...if you get it “moving” and then lapse with the herbal jazz, [because you “forgot”] it just redeposits elsewhere.
I learned that the hard way.
I spent 2 weeks where I could barely walk because my legs just didn’t “work right” and hurt like unholy hell.
The unbelievable, mind-numbing fatigue was definitely the worst part of it for me.
Now everything sits lined up on the top shelf of the fridge where I can’t “forget” it if I try.....:)
I had a girlfriend who got sick over a several month period. She was hospitalized four times before they did exploratory surgery only to discover nothing. After the surgery she found mercury beads in the back of the toilet. Turns out the mercury was in the water tower that fed her neighborhood. The AF had to move all the people out of those houses because they had to close that water tower. It would be interesting to know how many people had effects from that water before she got sick and they made the connection.