nice to have someone with 20 years' experience on the bb...whatever the past misdemeanours!
Hoppitt, perhaps you had a reaction to mercury in a vaccine? Though of course thimerosal-preserved vaccines are extensively used in the the developing world, so then the demographic argument would break down. Lucky you with the sparkling teeth.
I don't think amalgam fillings can account for all cases of inflammatory bowel disease, because these symptoms were brought out (with different characteristics) in many provings by Hahnemann and his contemporaries for remedies other than mercury. This was before the time of amalgam I think - I don't know for sure but I think Hahnemann would have said something about amalgam if it had been around in his day.