Thank you, that's encouraging....I initially was feeling better on iodine, but things have kind of turned the other direction.

I did go off the wagon with my diet for about six weeks during a period of rather extreme stress recently and still suffering the digestive consequences, so I think I've set back my progress in the whole picture. I've got a massive headache today, and I'm thinking it's from a combo of finally remembering the second Iodine dose for a few days in a row (finally up to 50mg that way) along with a Young Living essential oil parasite cleanse I started a week ago and have been increasing the dose. I have been going back and forth on whether I really need the larger does of Iodine given that I'm now taking the Naturethroid, but I think Dr. brownstein has actually increased Iodine in patients in the past who continued to have hypo type symptoms, or worsening symptoms on 50mg. My thing has always been sensitivity, and it seems like what works for hardier constitutions is just too much for me. My liver has been off for a long time, despite all the flushing and herbs I've done to try to repair it, and I know it's still weak.

The hair loss is really starting to freak me out, I had hoped it might come back vs. just stopping because right now it's very noticeably thin. I had fine, thinner hair to begin with, so I really couldn't spare it, and I think I've lost close to half the volume I had in my mid-20s, I'm 42 now. I'm going to talk to Dr. Brownstein about bioidentical hormones next time I see him, as much as I'd prefer not to go that route, I am feeling so lousy on a daily basis that I think I need to at least do the testing for the other hormone levels, and look at the adrenals as well. All the "symptoms" I'm having feel very hormonal - insomnia, hot at night, kind of ruled by my menstrual cycle, low libido, more facial hair, PMS, heavy periods, irritability, extreme fatigue, apathy, and tending toward Depression these days. A lot of it has become the catalyst for a spiritual crisis, which needed to happen and overall is probably a good thing, but the ongoing physical challenges have really been wearing on me. Lately I'm feeling like we're all just so toxic and poisoned from our modern, industrialized lives that it takes a monumental effort for those of us who really feel it to find a reasonable degree of health and wellness. The time, money and effort I've been putting into it... I don't know, don't you sometimes just get so tired of fighting that battle? Lately I'm wondering if this is just my karmic cross to bear, either that or I'm attracting it because it's starting to feel "hopeless."