Re: What's your experience starting with higher doses of iodine

Hi Mango. I started supplementing iodine last year at way too high of a dose. I was using 5% Lugol's and started with 2 drops/day. I felt pretty good on that, and over the course of the next week I quickly increased to 8 drops a day. This did NOT agree with me! I put on a lot of bloat, was breaking out, and had really bad bromaderma from the bromine detox. I stopped taking iodine until the side effects subsided. I also started taking N-A-C to help with the bromaderma, which it did. When I started taking iodine again, it was to the tune of an eighth of a drop daily, increasing every week by .1. So I would put 1 drop into 8 ounces of water and drink an ounce a day. The following week I would increase to drinking 2 ounces, etc. It took a really long time to increase my dose this way, but I didn't have any side effects and I felt GREAT! The overwhelming depression that I'd been battling for months disappeared and I had energy and felt content. It felt like such an achievement when I made it to 1 whole drop! I worked my way up in this manner again until I made it to 2 drops, and I stayed there for awhile. But then I tried being bolder, and now I can increase by a drop a week. At this point, I'm currently taking 87.5 mgs/day. I bought a bottle of 50 mg Iodoral and am also using the drops, because it's easier at this high of a dose.

I'm still feeling good and I'm hoping to knock out some bothersome health issues. I think I have a candida overgrowth (it's so frustrating not knowing for sure!) and possibly a parasite. I just did a 4 day stool collection test for that, so I'll find out soon enough!

So that's my iodine story. Starting high didn't work for me, I had to go slow and steady, but eventually was able to increase my dose pretty rapidly. I was really toxic with bromine. I still get a few pimples every time I increase my dose, but you know what's great for treating pimples topically? Iodine! I use a really small makeup brush to apply it just to the pimple, because it dries the skin out, and you don't want to dry out the surrounding skin. But it works like a charm, even for those occasional deep cysts.