Hey, 23, why were you taking Iodine to begin with?

I can't do any more than one drop at a time or I seem to go backwards, so my experience mimics your own. Through trial and error it seems like it's one of those things some of us have to gradually ease into.

Yes...my 80 year old mother appears to be going hypo also. Her temps have dropped and she's sluggish. She's been on 50mgs for a few months and was doing fabulous. She's cut back to half the amount taken every few days to see.

I've had periods were it feels like that also happening to me....the last one was for 2 days last week. I was utterly useless all day Wed and can't have that happen again as I'm gearing up to return back to another semester of night school next week.
But when I go lower than 50 I get breast pains returning so don't have an answer for myself much less anyone else.

On the other hand Flechas told me he's been on 50mgs steadily for years and years. He looks great and seems to have lots of energy....
And Jerry Brunetti also has been on 50mgs for years and doing great BUT BUT BUT he understands and takes trace minerals. He also has access to some of the most nutrient dense foods in terms of minerals that exist because his job is working with growers to increase nutrient density of produce and animals. I'm sure from his food alone he's getting lots of trace minerals.

I'm really looking closer at the trace minerals right now. I decided that selenium must go up for myself. Brazil nuts are not a dependable source so i'm supplementing and watching closely. Last 2 days I've really increased selenium and felt pretty darn good. Don't know if that's enough time though to say one way or the other.

Lynn

I seem to be regressing as well. Seems like all I want to do is SLEEP! I've decided to stop the Iodine for now and do a kidney/lymph cleanse. It's the one thing I haven't done in my cleansing and I've noticed that in every cleanse/detox I do, I get so far and then things just stop progressing. I also get very tired and have kidney pain or discomfort. Right now my eyes are burning and weepy. I don't understand what's with that!

I have also decided to go very slowly on supplementing with Lugol's Solution. I will probably go with only one or two drops a day, plus painting a weird skin lesion on my knee. It is slowly drying up and peeling away.

I wonder just how much Iodine the body can absorb at one time. I really do not believe in megadosing with any supplement or herb, because, first, the body cannot absorb more than a certain amount and must either eliminate or store the rest; and second, I do not want to place too much stress on my body, especially after this bout with Shingles.

I have some Banaba tea sitting in a small town post office (population less than 100), they refuse to deliver it to my home. I guess I'll pick it up tomorrow after work. I hope I'm not met by the local supplement police :). With all the Marijuana operations and Meth labs spread over the hills around here any kind of package of herbs from Thailand must be suspect.

Experiencing the detoxification of poison stores throughout our body is 'part and parcel' of replenishing our bodies with iodine...in fact, it's a HUGE benefit of the process. But these symptoms (tiredness, brainfog, acne/rashes, Body Odor , etc) are caused by the poisons being released into our blood...they are NOT symptoms of more Iodine than our bodies need (unless of course, we've already taken Iodine to the point of total body sufficiency, and then start exhibiting symptoms of low thyroid activity, etc).

To cut back on Iodine immediately upon experiencing symptoms of poisons being released, (basically) causes the poisons to stop being released and stay right where they are :(

Many people have experienced NO detox symptoms until they increase their dosages...it's a HUGE storehouse of poison for some of us, and wee bits of iodine is like trying to attack a glacier with tea-kettle of hot water.

However (and very importantly) if the body and organs of elimination are overburdened with poison, it IS important to stop adding more toxins to the bloodstream and give your body a chance to 'catch up'. I HIGHLY recommend coffee enemas, liver flushes, hot/cold compresses to the liver/kidney area, and all manner of various "kidney flush" herbal teas, blends, and protocol.

Remember we are fighting pure, unadultered, skull & crossbones POISON, stored throughout our body. While it may not have been our fault that they are stored within us now, it IS imperative that we take responsibility (and deal with the symptoms) of removing them from our bodies...in the healthiest (yet fastest) way possible.

Unyquity

Note: one of the patients here was experiencing symptoms of detox, and her urine level showed a HUGE amount of bromine...100mgs! (that's a lot of poison to be floating around in your blood, eh). Then after starting the salt/water, her urinary excretion of bromine was SEVEN HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS! When I imagine the size of two 350 mg 'capsules of anything', and then think that much pure poison could be floating in my bloodstream, I think two things: (1) thank the heavens (and all the powers that be) that I'm getting it OUT of my body, and (2) it is IMPERATIVE to give my body all the rest, nutrition and help it needs to help it deal with this. (and for me, that definitely includes taking 'time off' the iodine to give my body a chance to catch up).

Also note: there's a very real possibility this particular person was 'the extreme' rather than the norm...but it's still good to note that this VAST amount of toxin can be dislodged in a very short period of time. AND the fact that bromine is the only poison noted or measured...there was probably/also fluoride, chlorine and various heavy metals present that were not tested for.

Here's the link:
http://www.optimox.com/pics/Iodine/IOD-11/IOD_11.htm


and an excerpt:

We have previously observed that some patients who experienced side effects while on orthoiodosupplementation excreted large amounts of bromide in the urine. Orthoiodosupplementation induced and increased mobilization of bromine from storage sites with increased urinary excretion of bromide (4,6,12). The halide bromide was measured in the serum and urine samples of the second loading test. Bromide levels were markedly elevated in the 24 hr urine collections, at 192 mg/24 hr, compared to 3-12 mg/24 hr reported in normal subjects (8,9). Serum bromide levels were markedly elevated with a baseline of 141 mg/L, with post-iodine load values as high as 202 mg/L (Fig. 3). The renal clearance of bromide in adult subjects not ingesting large amount of chloride is around 1 L/24 hr. Therefore, the 24 hr urine bromide levels at steady state conditions should be equal to the amount of bromide in one liter of serum. The levels of bromide in serum and urine were some 20 times higher than expected in normal subjects. Since chloride increases renal clearance of bromide (10,11), she was placed on sodium chloride (Celtic Sea Salt ) at 10 gms per day for one week. After one day on chloride, urine bromide levels increased to 530 mg/24 hr and after the seventh day to 760 mg/24 hr. With a daily average excretion of 530 + 760 / 2 = 645 mg, she excreted 645 x 7 = 4515 mg of bromide during that week. Her serum bromide level after seven days on the chloride load decreased markedly to 43.2 mg/L, from a pre-chloride load of 141 mg/L. Since orthoiodosupplementation increases markedly urine excretion of bromide (4,6,12), it is likely that the patient's total body bromine content was much higher prior to starting the iodine supplementation. This patient was not taking a bromide-containing medication. Her elevated serum and urine bromide levels are most likely from a dietary source.

Some patients require up to 2 years of orthoiodosupplementation to bring post loading urine bromide levels below 10 mg/24 hr, if chloride load is not included in the bromine detoxification program. Rapid mobilization of bromine from storage sites with orthoiodosupplementation combined with increased renal clearance of bromide with a chloride load often causes side effects. Increasing fluid intake and adding a complete nutritional program to orthoiodosupplementation minimizes these side effects.

I am starting to come around to the realization that if I am not into buying a lot of the "right" supplements, or some of the nutrient-dense foods like chlorella, then too much of one nutrient really does throw me off.

Just as an experiment, I gave myself a continual stream of Lugol's one day. Something like 2 drops every few hours. I think I had very little or none the following day, and then none since then. I've had none since then cuz I started having problems with my BMs & other weird issues. I probably don't take enough of the vitamin C, and I ran out of Brazil nuts (I've been wondering about their radium content anyway).

When I have a chance, I will buy some seaweed, like wakame, and incorporate that into my diet. I think I'll also have a small dose of Lugol's daily. I will also focus on increasing the nutrient-dense food in my diet. I suspect that although it's been found that selenium, magnesium, and vitamin C are very complementary to the Iodine intake increase, there are other nutrients that should probably be increased as well but in such tiny amounts it hasn't come to people's attention yet.

Maybe I should even eat a little of my clay (again) periodically.

I'm not having any particular health crisis right now, anyway, so why rush it, I say.

I had the same experience - I was up to 10 drops a day and doing pretty well. Then I got a huge cold - the result of detoxing I'm sure, and my lower back went out (not kidney back pain). I have been off Iodine for almost two weeks and tried to take only one drop yesterday, and got the pain in my back like it was going to go out again plus nose running and coughing. I'm going to let my system heal itself and then try 1 drop a day to see if I can start back up again. Does anyone else have their back go out when detoxing? I must have a very toxic intestinal system, because every time I try to do a Colon Cleanse like with some of the oxygen products, I end up in extreme back pain and have to back off.