From: Angela Kilmartin [angela.kilmartin@dial.pipex.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 3:29 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: testimony of Angela Kilmartin

Attachments: testimony for FDA Sept 2006.wps

Dear Sir / Madam,

I enclose a pasted copy of my Testimony in case the attachment cannot be opened for some reason and an attachment of the same.

Angela Kilmartin





Testimony of Angela Kilmartin, London, England,

www.angelakilmartin.com       angela.kilmartin@dial.pipex.com          www.themercurysolution.com

TO:

The FDA meeting on Neurotoxicity of Mercury in teeth fillings,

Gaithersburg, Washington, USA.

September 5-7th, 2006.


I make testimony and stand as a witness that I and my entire family of three generations have been poisoned in many and various ways by dental mercury and other dental metals, these family members include: both parents, myself, a female child and a male child born to me respectively in 1969 and 1974. I have conducted many conventional metal tests on my family using proper scientific laboratories both before and after amalgam removal. The results show overwhelming responses to the safe removal of mercury teeth fillings both in data obtained and in clearance of symptoms.


My own list of symptoms ran to two pages and included being bed-bound for nine years between 1985 and 1995. The effects of four gold caps being added to a mouthful of mercury fillings took their galvanic toll on all body functions and systems and all are most carefully documented. Upon safe removal in May 1995 it took just three months for my health to become normal and I returned to the land of the living, from the land of the living dead.


This FDA meeting discusses only the neuroxicity of mercury.


The following are my own symptoms associated only or mainly with neurological systems:


tiredness, exhaustion, collapse, constant crying fits, memory loss, brainfog, severe rhinitis, severe blocked nose, sinus polyps, word loss, lowered concentration, gazeing, severe insomnia, irregular sleep patterns, hyperventilation, skin pallor, coldness, lowered body temperature, leg cramps, irregular heartbeats, frozen shoulders, uncertain gait.


I stress- these were merely the neurotoxic symptoms.


The effects on my life were catastrophic and denied my family my abilities to nurture both the generation behind me and the children coming up. As a divorced woman there was no-one there for me during the long days. Life was no life and after nine years of it I was coming up to suicidal. This never happened because I was introduced to the professional anti-mercury dentistry movement in the United Kingdom, did my own three months of private investigations at the great Wellcome medical library and the library of the Royal Society of Medicine, both in London. 


From this newly acquired knowledge, I had all mercury fillings safely removed and some months later each of the four gold caps. After every dental removal session another batch of symptoms would depart much to the astonishment of myself and friends / family. From being a non-believer to a total devotee of safe removal, I became convinced beyond doubt of any kind that mercury and the dental profession whom I had trusted were the sole cause of my terrible years of illnesses. I became Great Britains anti-mercury patient campaigner and I am here today to make representation to your Hearing that this poisonous substance, known as such to mankind since it was first mined many thousands of years ago, remains poisonous in all its uses including and most importantly of all, dentistry.


I strongly urge you to ban this vicious, insidious and poisonous metal from dental use in the human mouth.


Angela Kilmartin, Patients Against Mercury Amalgam, London, UK