Question:
Have you read the article on the internet by George Meinig about bacterial
poisoning from root canal filled teeth? Have you had any relief from M.E.
symptoms after having root canal filled teeth removed, or did your symptoms
begin shortly after having a root canal filling? My friend wants to know if
her M.E. symptoms are in any way connected to her three root canal filled
teeth.
Answer:
Sure, I've got several root fillings and I've got ME, but I can't
recall any correlation between the dentistry and onset or worsening of
symptoms. In fact I usually feel better after seeing the dentist as
the stress of having toothache and/or the prospect of a very
unpleasant half hour is removed.
If it was due to bacterial toxins, wouldn't they show up in blood
tests?
Similarly, I must have more mercury in my mouth than a clinic's supply
of thermometers, but that doesn't really seem to be connected. I have
asked my (previous) doctor about that, but he reckoned mercury
poisoning had some distinct symptoms which I lacked. It may be worth
bringing up again with my new doctor though. (Not that new, I changed
a good few years ago).
The most likely theory I've heard is that of systemic candida (thrush)
infection. Unfortunately, there seems to be no really sure way of
diagnosing that either, and the process of getting rid of it is
something I wouldn't want to go through just as something to try (I do
eat bio yoghurts quite often though ;)). On the one hand, it would
almost be tragic if I could have made myself better after wasting all
these years, but OTOH how many PWME have we heard of who found
treating thrush to be a definite cure?
I started with what we believe is M.E. in December 1997.
I haven't had a filling (although I do get my teeth checked regularly)
since I was in Junior School and I left there in 1976.
Sorry to come in on this a bit fogged, but is this to do with mercury
poisoning? Anyway, I think there's a danger, with lots of other things,
that people with a root-canal-filling-linked-problem could be misdiagnosed
with ME, but I certainly disagree that ME could be directly caused by this
- I have an immaculate smile and not one filling, as have an awful lot of
PWCs, probably proportional to the general population. ME has been about a
long time, whatever it may be, and I think this is a wee bit like the
candida thing - a few of us improve on a sugar-free no-anything-edible
diet, many of us may feel something different, but some of us are not at
all effected, other worsen and the mystery remains. We're all desperate for
the answers.
I think (it may have happened anyway) that I improved a bit after a long put
off visit to the dentist, in which the rotten husk of one of my teeth was
root canalled and capped.
