BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    DENTAL AMALGAMS

    MDR report key: 1132748 · Received August 22, 2008

    Report

    Report Number
    MW5008053
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    August 22, 2008
    Date of Event
    September 1, 1997
    Report Date
    August 9, 2008
    Product Code
    OIV
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Voluntary report
    Reporter Location
    OK, US
    Reporter Occupation
    PATIENT

    Narratives

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    DENTAL AMALGAM - MERCURY POISONING - NARCOLEPSY. EXCESSIVE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS ABOUT 8 MOS +/- AFTER HAVING AMALGAMS PUT IN. I COULD NOT STAY AWAKE, IT AFFECTED MY GRADES AND IN COLLEGE I HAD TO CHANGE MY DEGREE DUE TO THE FACT THAT I COULD NOT MAKE THE GRADES DUE TO MY EXCESSIVE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS. FOR FOUR YEARS I HAD TO LIVE IN A INTERMITTENT STATE OF SLEEP, POOR QUALITY OF LIFE. I WAS NOT DIAGNOSED UNTIL 2002 WITH NARCOLEPSY. FROM THAT TIME ON I WAS ON PROVIGIL, TWO PILLS A DAY UNTIL 2007, THIS IMPROVED MY QUALITY OF LIFE QUITE A BIT, BUT WAS NOT LIKE IT WAS BEFORE MY FILLINGS. I RESEARCHED AND FOUND THAT THE SYMPTOMS OF NARCOLEPSY ARE VERY SIMILAR/THE SAME AS THAT OF MERCURY POISONING. I DECIDED TO GO INTO DEPTH TO REMOVE THE MERCURY FILLINGS IN HOPES OF CURING MY NARCOLEPSY, BUT I WASN'T SURE IT WOULD WORK. IN 2007, I HAD ONE OF THE DENTAL AMALGAMS REMOVED AND IN THE SAME MONTH,I HAD THE OTHER DENTAL AMALGAM REMOVED. I HAVE NOT TAKEN A SINGLE PROVIGIL SINCE 2007. I HAVE BEEN AWAKE AND ALERT ALL DAY WITHOUT A PROBLEM, AND I AM CONSIDERING GOING BACK TO COLLEGE NOW THAT I CAN THINK CLEARLY AND STAY AWAKE! HAVING THE AMALGAMS REMOVED HAS RESTORED MY QUALITY OF LIFE. ADD'L DEVICE EXPLANT DATE: 2008.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    1 DENTAL AMALGAMS OIV

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 16 YR Other