I couldn't figure it out for the longest time. I did really good in the beginning, (2007 and 2008) but then went off what I knew to work for me and tried other forms of Iodine and they all worked.

But for a TIME.

Recently I had been depressed. Went on fruit and nuts - mainly because of constipational issues that still plague me.

I'd take magnesium, but then it would always give me diarrhea...take less than what I had to take for diarrhea, though, and it wouldn't work AT ALL half the time! sigh

I finally thought - hey - I'm not going to take ANY iodine, but just SSKI . It's been proven safe for a VERY long time. In HUGE doses.

I'm presently taking a bit more than a gram THREE times a day - every day.

In my water I still take salt and soda - basically I'm doing the Cayce thing but with Trap's SSKI INSTEAD of iodine.

So far so good.

So more being cold.

No more excessive saliva.

I'm actually sweating again.

I don't stink.

No more headaches.

No more depression.

And best of all?

I'm REGULAR again and not even needing to take magnesium!

It's easy to be consistent with this because I'm eating what I want - I'm GIVING IN to what my body tells me what it wants.

IF it tells me it wants chocolate, I can actually eat just a few bites, and then I'm satisfied. It's not like the six candy bars I could eat in one sitting in my 20's. It's a "little dab will do me" sort of thing.

I have cravings for things like brussels sprouts one day, refried beans and spicy tomatoes another day...

cottage cheese and pineapple chunks another day.

split-pea soup last week - for BREAKFAST.

Right now it's two raw eggs for breakfast - the last several days.

But I'm consistant with the more than 3 grams of SSKI daily.

My skin is getting soft again, too. I am elated.

This started because I learned with a skin problem called sporotrichosis, one of the prescriptions (allegedly still a choice of scripts in use today) is WORKING UP TO six grams a day (you MUST work UP to that dose) for as long as six months to cure the skin fungal problem.

Since I too, have skin problems, I figure, hey, maybe I need more iodiDe too.

Yep.

I thought I was sufficient in Iodine taking a half gram of sski along with the Iodine I was taking.

I was wrong.

I'm feeling amazing again.

Iodine/and/or/iodide supplementation and its companions are as diverse a treatment as we are a people.

It's one of the reasons why I cringe when people come to me and say, "Just tell me what to take"

I can only say what works for me.

AND

at any given time.

It just feels good to "be ME again"!!!

I've done a lot of reading about Iodine lately, and it seems that if you don't need iodine, the overdose symptoms are the same as the bromine detox symptoms. I just started taking it and had to quit for several days because of the headaches. I am only taking one drop of 5% a day now, and no headaches now.

Has anything good happened because of your supplementation? You say you take companion nutrients "as much as was possible." From what I understand, it isn't an option, especially for the selenium.

I'm sure someone can come along and help you more.

"i recently did a salt loading for 16 days (2 halves of teaspoon daily, that's about 1200 sodium).
I took no Iodine during this period.
At the end of the 16 days i started having thyroid pain and 1 day afterward pain when swallowing. I got very worried and stopped the salt loading which stopped the thyroid pain and pain when swallowing in about a day. Anybody has an idea what to do to get rid of these bromism symptoms ? Thanks.

If salt loading caused thyroid pain, without taking iodine; I believe it is a lack of iodine; since the whole idea is that Iodine are to replace the bromide.

I also believe that you took to little iodine, 6 mg to start with, is enough to stir things up, but not enough to replace / heal the situation.

Iodine is out after a few days, so it cant cause your head ache, but bromide can. Salt is only part of the Iodine protocol, so I recommend doing all of it; with proper amounts of iodine, like 50 mg and up.

I know this is over 3 years old but curious if anything ever worked for you on this. I'm having a similar issue with a headache that won't quit, though my time line is much shorter than yours. Nothing seems to touch it.