Ha, Molly, you probably just took a decade offa yerself with the iodine.
My three month mark had my periods back to how they were in my TWENTIES! Three days of normal bright flow, no cramps, no clots and one very light day of spotting. Before I started oping I was getting up to SEVEN days with lots of clotting. Op got me back to five but three of those days were still fairly heavy. After three months on iodine I have watched them slowly transform themselves into the normal flow I had in my twenties. wa-hoo. NO CLOTTING, NO CRAMPING, NO HEAVY FLOW AT ALL. Not a bit.