I'm not Stephanie Buist. I am one of the lucky ones, I still have my thyroid. The story I posted was from Stephanie's website. She is an Iodine advocate as well as a patient and friend of Dr. David Brownstein. I "met" Stephanie when I joined Janie's natural thyroid hormone group as well as Stephanie's Iodine group on yahoo. I highly recommend Scotch joining both yahoo groups, reading everything on Stephanie's website as well as Janie's stop the thyroid madness site, not to mention the Iodine supplementation forum here on curezone. Scotch will quickly realize that s/he is not alone and that recovery is possible without going under the knife.