lugols iodine, initially felt great not sure whats going on now

I started taking Lugol's Iodine about 6 months ago. I've been doing a lot of fasting and noticed that my hair started thinning rapidly. Something felt off, so as I began to do some research, I came across somebody mentioning that Iodine deficiency is sometimes linked with hair loss. So I ordered some Lugol's Iodine to experiment with it.

After taking just a few drops of the 2%, within 15 minutes I felt a surge of energy go through my body. The entire day I felt like I was on speed or something. So much energy, I had a hard time going to sleep. After just getting 5 hours of sleep that night, I woke up and to my amazement I was full of energy, ready to go. I have never felt this good. Normally I'm really tired through the day, and have a really hard time getting up in the mornings. For the next month and half or so I felt like I had discovered a gold mine, I felt so good. I had energy to do anything that I wanted.. I felt sharper and was able to be a lot more productive. It's been long time since I've felt that way. In that month I worked up to 25mg. As I was talking iodine, I started to do some research on it, so I quickly learned that I needed to take selenium with it, so about a week and half into it I started taking 200-400mcg of selenium. Shortly after I also added vitamin C and magnesium.

I suspect that I was hypothyroid, I had most of the symptoms and have been always really cold. (better now but still cold a lot of the time)

After about a month and a half-2 months, I started to feel like crash in the after noon, I would get extremely sleepy to where I would need to take a nap otherwise I couldn't function. I also wasn't having the energy I use to get from the iodine.. This lasted for at least a month before I started to do some more research and found out about salt and salt loading. When I started the salt loading, the tiredness and sleepiness would lift and I would feel much better. I started adding himalayan pink salt to my water daily. Although that helped, I still wasn't feeling as good as I initially did. I started working my way up to 50mg. I began to feel sick and extremely fatigued. To a point that I could hardly work..

So I bought Brownsteins book on iodine and found out about the ATP cofactors. Immediately I ordered some and began taking it. And bam! I started feeling extremely good and energetic as I initially did.. I started taking 2 a day and then later bumped up to 3..

After a couple of weeks I started to feel extremely fatigued again.. This went on for about 2 weeks until I bumped up to 100mg a day. That seemed to do it and I felt good again.

After a few days on 100mg a day, (I also take 400mcg of selenium, 400mg of magnesium, ATP cofactors 3 times a day, and1 tsp of unrefined salt in my water throughout the day) I started taking an herbal thyroid supplement from R-Garden (it's on their site under herbs). I don't know if its related to that supplement or the 100mg iodine dose, but I started to get headaches and a really sore thyroid.. It would be slightly painful, uncomfortable. It's seems to have started a couple of days ago when I started taking that supplement..

Any thoughts on what could be going on here? Suggestions?

Thanks!
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