Just for clarity, the Iodine i applied was 5% lugols, on occasion i would apply SSKI during the day if i was going to be out, as it would be less noticeable. It took a good month of daily applications to see results. I feel the DMSO gel was really worth the effort, i started applying that around week 2. I also re started the Iodine protocol internally, as i had been taking of break from supplementing in the months leading up to it.