MJB,

You are correct. Iodine is essential for good health, and is required by the thyroid and other organs in our body.

Dr. Brownstein recommends taking Lugols liquid Iodine or Iodoral caps WITH co-supplements. Most important is 200mcg selenium. See this list of co-supplements which are required to get toxins out of our cells and Iodine into our cells:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzFKo-r2-Nn8_z0KUrOhHdlanzSuhkuV3QO03XF6YTY/edit

Also, our thyroid requires iodine + selenium, not drugs. In most cases, taking iodine with co-supplements makes the need for thyroid drugs unnecessary. You can find all of my iodine reference help files here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zc1Foq1a-MnfARWYKDuax3mfaXu8Q8TtYdlmHqcr64I/edit#

Grizz

Hey! I was not diagnosed hypothyroid when I started Iodine 3+ years ago but had a lot of the symptoms which are now for the most part all corrected.
I dealt with tinnitus- that was more from detox for me and taking Boron helped that.
Neck pain- is this the front or back of your neck?
My thyroid would swell when I did not supplement enough selenium and would cause the front of my neck to hurt.

Make sure you are doing salt pushes. It pushes all the bromide and toxins out and also helped neck pain. .
I know at one point I was struggling with my thyroid reacting to the Iodine enough to cause discomfort. If I were You I would taper off the thyroid supplement and see if you can get improvement just from the Iodine and co supplements. I also would recommend playing with Iodine dose- 50mg used to be my sweet spot but now I seem to do better with 12mg of Iodine daily. Everyone is different

Leg cramps- potassium? A lot of the people on the forum push potassium so invest in a bag of it on Amazon in powder form- it's not expensive.

As I have read 100x on this board- Iodine has a way to point of other deficiencies in the body.

I have weeks I feel 100% on Iodine and others like I'm poisoning myself but remember it's not the Iodine it's the toxins releasing in our body and sometimes your Iodine-Selenium ratio.

Drink clean filtered reverse osmosis water or distilled. Floride in tap water was hard for me combat with when I first started supplementing Iodine is was an uphill battle.

Stay positive- keep asking questions and you will come out ahead.

I had times of neck discomfort at one time even though I was taking all the recommended nutrients. However this only happened when my adrenal glands where called on to produce hormones such as cortisol. This was most common due to hypoglycaemia. I fixed it by adding a fair bit of pantothenic acid (vitamin b5). That stopped it happening for me. I was already getting a fair bit of supplemental b5 but not near enough. Chances are that my body had insufficient B5 and was using up other nutrients trying to cope.

Weight gain indicates that your thyroid is under functioning probably due to your thyroid shutting down due to the Iodine without the other needed nutrients needed to complete the cycle. That could be due to a deficiency of an important nutrient required for conversion/activation of the thyroid hormones.

I found the following site useful:
http://hypothyroidmom.com/10-nutrient-deficiencies-every-thyroid-patient-should-have-checked/



Tyrosine is needed as well as many other nutrients.

I've got the same identical symptoms and more, but mine didn't start until I had been supplementing with Iodine for ten years, and I don't want to stop either because it helps me so much in other ways. But my TSH levels have been off for the last two times I was checked.

I am going to the doctor today and find out more if I can.

I am wondering if my parathyroid gland is hot because I have almost all the symptoms of hyperparathyroid, which governs calcium uptake. And my body is not utilizing calcium properly. I crave dairy, but I feel nauseas if I indulge. I have osteopenia, lumpy gums, and salivary stones. Taking boron causes the salivary stones to surface and makes my pancreas hurt.