Re: Any Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Iodine, Need Input

I have ER+ (and her2+) breast cancer. It was very, very advanced when I was diagnosed last summer.

I had serendipitously started Iodine a few months earlier, but I took Iodine during the hard chemo. I took 50 or 100 mg every day I "felt like it." If it repulsed me I didn't take it that day.

During this time I felt like crap every day, whether I took it or not! So I couldn't tell a difference.

I still do the iodine, and vit D, as people are recommending -- loading up for a week with 30,000 - 50,000/day (can't remember) and taking 10,000/day ever since (thanks Grizz).

I do a lot of other supplements too, and I can't say what for sure is making it happen, but I am doing great and the cancer's almost gone, if there's even any active stuff left.

If it were me in your mother's circumstance I would take as much Iodine as I could handle, along with the companion nutrients...and if the oncologist says not to take selenium (mine did) ignore it (I did).

Good luck with everything. I wish you and your mother the best, and she is very lucky to have you helping her with this!

Rachael