Re: Leg Edema, lymph/circulation, thyroid, advice?

Hello! :) You're a sweetheart.

I've kind of lost track, but well over a year on the iodine, with a short break while I had that appendix perforation and recovery. (still have my appendix!) The massive amounts of Antibiotics no doubt did some damage along with helping.

The things I'm taking pretty much without fail are Lugol's 50mg all at once in the AM, selenium, C, Vit. D liquid/oil, magnesium in various forms (lately I'm liking a liquid from a company that makes trace minerals), digestive enzymes, trace minerals, melatonin at night, and extra salt in my water and food because he said I was low in sodium. I haven't done so much the regular "salt pushes" recently because I thought I was past most of the bromide detox, though maybe I'm wrong because I never had any really major symptoms, just a few zits and maybe increased headaches for awhile. Less regularly - there are a lot of other supps I take when I remember, which might be 3-4 days a week if I don't find them in the pocket of my bathrobe at laundry time - ATP Co-factors, PABA, herbs I bought from Uny when I was trying to go the Schulze route- hawthorn, liver herbs, bilberry, gingko, a few others. Cod liver oil when I remember. I wonder if the IP program they do over on that forum might have worked for me... Iodine would not have been part of it, but I was a little overwhelmed with the protocols.

Just recently I added what I think is a good iron product (my testing a few months ago showed low iron), E, a sublingual B, a food-based cal/mag, and I want to explore the boron that ginagirl recommended as well as that food grade diatomaceous earth for the silica which I've heard is good. I'm probably forgetting something. Oh - aloe and triphala. My gut seems to like those, as well as probiotics. I take those regularly.

My diet is like a hundred times better than the average american, but it can get a bit monochromatic when I'm busy, I tend to not get enough variety, I'm sure. For a few years I was almost grain-free, but I was eating too much meat that way, then I tried raw vegan for awhile, which helped my chronic headaches a lot, but made me really cold, and my gut wasn't particularly happy on that, either. Recently I'm back to some non-gluten grains (mostly soaked and cooked, though for the first time in years I bought a box crispy rice cereal - childhood comfort food) and a mostly veg. diet with fresh, whole veggies and only berries as fruit (since that's what the colon hydrotherapist recommended as a more moderate, do-able candida diet). Some fish and chicken occasionally, and even the odd burger or buffalo since I figure the iron will help me. Virtually no dairy. I try to food combine properly for digestion. Always some raw every day, about 4 times a week a green smoothie in the AM with berries and some kind of veggie as the base, no fat with that. Use coconut or olive oil to cook with. Take hemp oil as a supplement when I have it. No sugar, no junk unless something sneaks into a sauce when I'm eating out - which I still do, but try to make careful choices.

I feel like it's time for a liver cleanse, I've done a lot of work on my liver, but I'm still looking yellow sometimes and I feel a little "toxic." I think I really fried it back when I was taking a lot of pharmaceuticals for headaches and didn't know better. I know it's supposed to be able to regenerate, but my liver/GB seem to be kind of a constant problem, though I don't look truly jaundiced anymore. Those Hulda Clark flushes were a lifesaver for me.

So that's my story, sad but true - lol! I try to remind myself I could be much, much worse off. Watching a documentary on someone with elaphantitis or something puts things in perspective.