Re: afib, weight gain, blurred vision

You may have different symptoms pop up as you go along. It can be a challenge to recognize some of them yourself, though the people around you might remind you :) Here's a list you can refer to when you need a hint --

http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/bromidedetoxsymptomsandstrategies.html

Where does all this bromide detoxing from our tissues
come from?

Please look at the evidence of the increasing bromide dominance condition in our environment
and products.

Because iodine was not supplemented much before the last three years, few physicians have
had a chance to look closely at the occasional symptoms which arise from iodine
supplementation (still called "iodism") and raise questions.
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• Might the historical observation of iodism be due principally to
  massive amounts of stored bromine leaving the tissues and entering
  the bloodstream?   
  

• Is it possible the apparent adverse effects of iodine are due almost
  exclusively due to bromide excretion, and not enough iodine-alone
  effects can be documented to qualify as an "ism" ?
  

• Might the iodism phenomenon be more appropriately called
  "bromism"?
  

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Many of the Breast Cancer Choices' Iodine Investigation Project registrants also found the
following suggestions helpful if bromide detox symptoms were not tolerable. Consult your
doctor before implementing the strategies below:

Bromide Detox Strategies

1. Salt Loading.
2. Stopping iodine for 48 hours to rest the kidneys.
3. Reducing the iodine dose temporarily, then working back up.
4. Taking several grams vitamin C spread out throughout the day along
   with the Iodine Companion Nutrients.
5. Drinking more water.
6. Pulse-dosing (stopping and restarting iodine therapy.)
7. According to Iodine users with skin symptoms, adding 25 mg zinc often helps.

Iodine-related bromide symptoms may include but are not limited to:

eye lid twitching
foot twitching
tingling in hands or feet
dark thoughts (e.g., there is no reason to live)
depression (e.g., there is no reason to get out of bed)
anxiety
emotionality
mouth and tongue sores and cuts or "sore mouth"
"different" acne,"bromide acne," "acne-like eruptions" without "coniform." (Some iodine
users found zinc helps bromide acne.)
skin "cuts"
hair loss
brain fog
leg and hip ache (feels like arthritis)
rash (bromaderma)
metallic  taste
sinus ache
cherry angiomas
runny nose
headache
sedation
lethargy
odd swallowing sensation (reported in old  medical literature as "swollen glottis")
body odor (bromos is Greek for stench)
unusual urine odor
dry mouth
ureteral spasm, frequent urination (mistaken for urinary infection)
diarrhea
constipation
vision changes
irritability
increased salivation
dream changes
hormone changes
kidney pain
breast tenderness (transient symptom reported to resolve)

References:
A Review of the Scientific Literature as It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Pyridostigmine Bromide Vol. 2 by
Beatrice Golumb, MD, PhD, http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/randrep/pb_paper/

Abraham G et al., Evidence that the Administration of Vitamin C Improves a Defective Cellular Transport
Mechanism for Iodine:  A Case Report, The Original Internist 2005

Abraham G., The Safe and Effective Implementation of Orthoiodosupplementation in Medical Practice, The
Original Internist 2004

Cann S et al., Hypothesis, Iodine, Selenium and the Development of Breast Cancer, Cancer Causes Control
2000.

Breast Cancer Choices, Iodine Investigation Project Database.