I am on 4 drops of Lugols a day and experiencing exactly the same thing. Plus my stools are way loose (but I don't mind that at all) Been able to go without the aid of laxatives for the first time in years - yeah.....

I can answer some of your questions:

--Yes, there is plenty of evidence that shows that brown colored/cloudy urine indicated bromine/bromide. The first place I remember is in the Flechas audio program, which you can find here:
//www.curezone.org/ig/f.asp?f=1723

(Choose the 3rd file 'DrFlechasDrStan2hour')

If you haven't already listened to that program, you are definitely cheating yourself :)

You can learn/understand more from that 2 hour program (even if you have to listen 15 minutes at a time), that you could learn by researching or reading posts on Curezone for 100 hours!

--It has been found that the "half life" of bromine in the bloodstream 10 days or more (depending upon many factors).
This person had bromide intoxication/poisoning and it took over TWO MONTHS to clear the bromine from her blood. I've pasted the entire article below my sign off.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uid...


--In this article, you can find a LOT of information about bromine in the blood/urine.

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

>>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.<<



I wish I had time to write more, but it's past my bedtime.

Basically, yes - brown urine when taking Iodine normally means that the Iodine is doing exactly what it is supposed to do...push out toxins. One of those toxins is bromine/ide, and bromine/ide in the urine sometimes causes it to be brown/cloudy/strong smelling. (bromine STINKS...it also causes strong BO)

And, yes - you could have stopped taking iodine a week or two ago and still have bromine/ide in your blood that is coming out in your urine.

And, yes again - MANY of us that have been taking iodine have experienced brown/cloudy/gross-P.U. urine. (And other colors, too - common are orange and chartreause green...but I don't think we've ever identified 'what color is what toxin').

I would say, that if you haven't made any other major changes except the iodine, that it's a pretty safe bet that the variance in your urine is the bromine (or other toxins) that the iodine has dislodged from your tissues.

'Hope that helps you out some - I'm off to Zzzzzzzzzz :)

Unyquity


>>Bromide intoxication today is an infrequent disease, but preparations containing bromide are still available in nonprescription compounds, on the French market. We report a casewith bromide intoxication due to daily over intake (approximately 20 tablets per day; i.e. total elemental bromide intake approximately 6 g/day) of calcium bromo-galactogluconate (Calcibronat) for 1.5 months. A 30-year-old woman with a long history of psychotropic drug abuse was hospitalized in a psychiatric department for neuropsychological manifestations. She presented a seriously disturbed mental status with confusion, disorientation, auditory and visual hallucinations, and loss of short-time memory. A markedly increased serum bromide level of 1717 mg/L (21.5 mEq/L) measured on the first day after her admission confirmed the diagnosis of chronic bromism suspected based on her symptomatology. During her hospitalization, bromide plasma concentrations were measured and monitored using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, a sensitive and very specific method. After withdrawal of the drug, the symptoms improved within 8 days. Serial bromide concentrations gradually declined throughout nearly 2 months of monitoring, until she was discharged from the hospital. We found an elimination half-life of bromide in blood of approximately of 10 days. This case demonstrates that, while today bromism occurs infrequently, it should still be included in the differential diagnosis of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

PMID: 12733857 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]<<

Yeah, definitely listen to the audio that Uny linked you too. I had the most colorful pee day ever on Saturday, orange in the morning, chartreuse in the afternoon & pink in the evening. The pink was from beet juice. The others? I dunno, but I'm glad it's gone. Also, I recently took a four day break from supplementation and I was still peeing brown a couple of days into it... :)

I love this post on how the Iodine keeps working, even when we back off:


//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=845968#i

Sometimes it just means you're manufacturing lots of B vitamins, so I've read. Like, when you take B pills or Yeast.

I would imagine that if you're feeling well, it wouldn't be something to worry about.