Re: I suppose I should report this, peri-menopausal women report in, please...:)

Well, I'm not sure what was causing what at that point. I had also started a general mineral supplement three months prior to the MSM.

Anyway, the symptoms I had when I started taking MSM was that I was severely hyperthyroid - EXCESSIVELY hot, severe pressure behind the eyes, too much nervous energy while strangely fatigued at the same time, a mild degree of confusion, fingernails ripping at the quick for no reason, callousing on my hands in funny places (noticeable after a bath)... and definitely irritable. No periods.

Other symptoms not usually connected to hyperthyroidism -- severe stabbing pains in my left eye once or twice a week, sharp pains in my lower left back off and on everyday. Those also went away when I started the MSM. In fact I could feel the changes in my left eye on the second day of MSM. The back pain took a week or so.

Actually, I didn't start taking MSM because of the hyperthyroid symptoms but because I read that sulphur was connected to all of the body's natural chelators, cysteine, methionine, taurine, and metallathenion (sp?) and I thought some of the symptoms were detox symptoms. It was just sheer coincidence that taking the MSM stopped my hyperthyroid symptoms.

Gotta warn you though, after taking MSM for two months I developed severe digestive problems which were corrected by eliminating the MSM and starting to take Armour thyroid again. It seems that MSM not only stopped the hyperthyroid symptoms but slowed down my thyroid too much. [Thyroid dysfunction is one cause of low stomach acid.] But I may just be an exception. I haven't heard of anyone else taking MSM that had that happen.

No, I am not back on iodine, or MSM for that matter. Once in a while I take a very little bit of Iodoral if I feel a little sluggish. But I am scared to death of going hyperthyroid again... that was awful. An endocrinologist once told me if I started to go hyperthyroid they would eventually end up scraping out my thyroid. [Yeah, she was a real trip.] THAT will not be happening. Bet no one ever tells their hyperthyroid patients to try MSM first.

Best wishes,

~Mistral