Hey there Iodine forum!

I'm a recent lurker and a first time poster. Thought I'd post a summary of how I'm going, getting started on the Iodine protocol, both to check if there's any advice and to have a record of how it all began!

A recent episode of mastitis led me to iodine. My mammogram showed dozens of cysts, as well as calcifications. They wanted me to take Antibiotics but I have a long history of BV and yeast infections so I really, really did not want to. I am just starting to put together all my symptoms, and realise they are connected: In hospital with bronchitis a week after I was born, so Antibiotics from the beginning. Grew up sensitive to Sugar (I'd go mega-hyper), repeat bronchitis and tonsillitis, a few rounds of pneumonia. Diagnosed with IBS, and then back to back yeast and BV infections for around ten years now. A long history of trauma including child molestation and a drug rape five years ago - which I believe has really impacted by ability to heal and trapped pockets of trauma and emotion in my body. Two years after the drug rape, my breasts filled with cysts for the first time and they have gotten worse - one breast more than the other. OH, and just after the rape I was finally diagnosed gluten intolerant and changed my diet, thus saving me from years of gastric embarrassment and distress. History of drug and alcohol abuse, irregular periods and terrible period pain, all the birth control known to man (I've been clear of that awful crap for 7 years now, thankfully), but no relief from the severe infections that developed. Last swab said I'm fighting: klebsiella pneumoniae and candida krusei. SO here we are, and after the mastitis I was filled with renewed determination to heal, and I found this forum!

I'm one month in. I began on a low dose lugols, 12.5 mg, but after two weeks of horrible detox symptoms and reading, I've jumped up to 100mg. I have done two weeks of 100mg split into two doses per day, but today I started doing the whole lot in one dose in the morning because it's hard to space out all the supplements and everything away from the Iodine (while working and all the rest!). i also just doubled my selenium from 200 to 400 a day.

Right now I take:
100mg Lugols with 160,000iu serrapeptase upon waking
Late morning/lunch: 2000mg Vitamin C, 400mcg selenomethionine, 400mg Magnesium Citrate, a B complex (have ordered the cofactors but am waiting for them to arrive), herbal liver support, and a 50billion probiotic
Dinner: 2000mg vitamin c, 200iu vitamin k2, 400mg magnesium citrate, 600mg NAC

At night I use a baking soda suppository for my recurrent yeast infection, and a teaspoon of diatomaceous earth (on and off, sometimes it stops me pooping)

Detox reactions have been: dandruff, runny nose, flu-like symptoms, tiredness, random bursts of emotion (why am I crying?), memory emergence, a little thigh muscle twitching, my L5 moving out of place (always happens when Im emotionally releasing), constipation or diarrhoea depending on the day, eyes randomly blurring. Salt pushing sorts most of it out, along with a few extra vitC.

Other reactions: increased libido and dream-ogasm (I don't remember having sensation inside my vagina before, so this is quite fascinating to me), epic dreams, bursts of mental clarity and easy focus, not having to fight my brain to make it work, the mastitis healed quickly and I'm hoping the cysts will go away, and this is quite random but when i glance in the mirror I see a very beautiful woman - and I've never thought that about myself ever, ever before. I think my skin and eyes are different, and I've lost a little weight. I'm also hoping my eyesight might improve a little, i've worn glasses since I was a child.

Other supplements I have on hand but haven't used yet: Oxypowder , Boron liquid drops, MSM with Zinc.
Oh, and I'm having my two Amalgams taken out (safely) in a week.

I just want to say that my research into iodine and all the incredible information you've all shared, is the first time that i can see the through-line of all the illnesses I've suffered since I was a child, and how they've progressed. I have a family of chronic illness and one very, very sick brother, so I had never paid much attention to my own illnesses because "I'm not THAT sick". But of course, these things build up steam over time and I really believe that this protocol will save me from a future Breast Cancer diagnosis.

So THANK YOU Iodine Forum , and really happy to be here!

DREAM GOALS: no more lumpy boobs, no more endless yeast/BV infections, and less trauma-emotion-pockets in my body... Let's see what happens!