mercury poisoning

After a good salmon season, a freezer load of yellow tail from Mexico and the one albacore trip the doctor tells me not to eat another bite of fish the rest of the year.  I guess I've got enough mercury in me for 5 people.

What?  Really?  How many meals of fish per week you eating?  Sorry to hear of this.

-Allen

Hope to get better soon Batt   .Were you feeling ill ? What led to your diagnoses ?

Sorry to hear that, usually Salmon is pretty safe.

Yea Batt, what was the reason for the diagnosis??
Sorry to hear this.
I can offer a helping hand by taking some of that 'crap' off your hands. 
Seriously though, how did you discover you had that much mercury in your system?
How much fish were you eating a week?
How long until you are merc free?
This is good info to share with the rest of us.

I was eating a lot of big fish and asked the Dr. for a mercury test.  He said it wasn't necessary but I insisted.  When the results came back he told me to stop eating fish and to have my wife get tested.   My results by the way were 13ng/ml and I believe the cutoff was 11.

I cut back, way back, and changed the types of fish I ate.  Rock fish are high in Hg so I didn't eat much of them, but I ate tuna and salmon, sardines and even small (legal sized) ling cod, blues.

A year later I'm normal and back to eating fish.  I just don't eat a whole ling by myself or a bunch of Chinas.

I think I posted this already, but good reiteration here.

http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/docs/coast_study/bog2012may/coast2012factsheet.pdf

Shelter Cove surprised me

Yikes man, that's scary stuff...details please, and wishing you a speedy recovery.

Sorry to hear that.  You worked (played) so hard this year and had some quality catches.  Share if you feel like it.

Scary sorry to hear that.  I should get a mercury test.  I know I have eaten more than my share of fish this year.

I've been eating fish a couple times a week.  Especially the YT lately but salmon and rockfish all summer.  Now with a big load of albacore to eat I asked the Dr. for a mercury test to be included on my yearly physical.  No apparent ill effects yet but at 30ng/ml, oops. 

Good idea to have yourself tested Dave. Nice YT btw!

Hope you don't have to wait very long to get back to eating fish again.

Calling Big Jim!  No one eats more fish than this guy , might be time to get checked out.

Sorry to hear that Battman!  I would say it was a good idea to ask for the test.  better safe than sorry!

I'm sure you'll be back to normal in no time.