Iodine and Potassium Iodide

[Rhythmik]

When in the day are you taking your iodine?

I took it in the morning. I'm pretty sure I followed the instructions correctly. Salt water upon arising, later on breakfast, then took the iodine with water on its own. And I waited a couple of hours before Vit C.

That was a very rough few days for me. I'm just beginning to get my senses back today. I ate virtually nothing for 3 days, I've only just gotten my appetite back. My kidneys were hurting everytime I lied down or tried to sleep (salt water alleviated the pain a bit). I had diarrhea for the whole 3-4 days, I could've gone to the bathroom literally every hour. I've had a cough the whole time. I lost all motivation to do anything. I went to the doctor today, basically he said he knew nothing about iodine so he couldn't help me, so I just asked for something to help with the diarrhea. I'm starting to feel better now thank god, but I'm still not sleeping a full night. For some reason I keep waking up around 3-4am. My body stays awake for an hour or 2 and then I can go back to sleep

I thought that I was relatively healthy but I guess I was wrong! I can't believe what happened to me after only taking around 10-15mg total?? I severely underestimated how powerful it can be for detoxing. Or I was thinking is it possible to be allergic to it? I should probably focus on improving my general health before attempting this again.

Thanks everyone

 

[Gaby]

I severely underestimated how powerful it can be for detoxing.

Welcome to the club! Slowly and easy does it.

If the diarrhea continues, you could try saccharomyces boulardii with or without lactobacillus rhamnosus. Works like a charm.

 

[Foxx]

For some reason I keep waking up around 3-4am. My body stays awake for an hour or 2 and then I can go back to sleep

That could be an indicator of poor liver function. Based on the rest of your symptoms, I'd suspect that your liver is struggling to detox right now. Adding in Milk Thistle could help, along with possibly NAC, Alpha Lipoic Acid, activated charcoal, and possibly Chlorella for possible heavy metals. Vitamin C in higher doses could also help alleviate detox effects, though you'll likely want to be careful with that since you've been having diarrhea already.

 

[hesperides]

I´ve been reading religiously day after day all your reports and want you to know how much you are helping me through all your comments and experiences

During December I reported yellow stools as I was reaching 4 drops of iodine which represents roughly 10 mg. iodine. So I cut down to one drop and started adding milk thistle, NAC and chlorella, aside from the cofactors and salt water.

Now, after two months, I still get the same result, which is getting yellow stool the fourth day after taking only one drop of iodine for three days. Then, when I stop iodine intake, two days later colour is completely back to normal. So for two months I´ve been from Monday until Wednesday on one drop and having a break from Thursday until Sunday. Now I´m trying one day on and one off, and cutting through the weekend to see if that works better.

I´ve read on a forum that iodine causes fat melting and that this may obstruct the bile duct temporarily and alter stool colour. Well, this approach could be true but then I also think there would be more report on this topic, and so far there was only one member here who reported a similar reaction, albeit I guess it was just a temporarily thing from what he said.

Another thing that confuses me is that since a month or maybe more, stools look greasy. Therefore I´ve also added 650 mg hydrochloric acid since then, but I still don´t see any noticeable improvement either for now. Should I increase this amount? Curious that I never got greasy stool since 2010, being on a paleo-cetosis diet, nor did I ever before. I guess iodine doesn´t like to leave anything unchecked under her radar!

On the brighter side, now I go poop twice and even three times per day and feel much lighter through the day as I did when I just visited the bathroom once per day. I didn´t see any doctor since I feel well, aside of some energetic ups and down, the latter being rather manageable. Also joint pain has lessen so much that I can´t still believe it. Actually after sitting for an extended period I would be extra careful when standing up, now it´s just so easier. And my swollen wrist just returned to its original shape, to name just a few improvements.

Another thing I wanted to ask is that I´ve received the DMSA two months ago but I think in my case being prudent with that stuff would be wise, in spite I´ve being taking again multi-minerals to avoid any mineral deficit at the time I was supposed to take said DMSA. Not sure here, any advise? Thanks.

 

[Gaby]

Another thing I wanted to ask is that I´ve received the DMSA two months ago but I think in my case being prudent with that stuff would be wise, in spite I´ve being taking again multi-minerals to avoid any mineral deficit at the time I was supposed to take said DMSA. Not sure here, any advise? Thanks.

I'm not sure if I understood your question. Do you want to know about re-mineralizing when you're not doing DMSA?

Taking minerals is good during any detox phase. It is specially important to do it after DMSA cycles. However, I will wait until your bowel movements and poop gets stabilized. It is very important to have good overall gut health in order to do DMSA as it might trigger candida overgrowth when all the heavy metals get released.

As for bowel movements, I also noticed the same. I'm going more often and more regular. I think this also reflects a "faster" metabolism. Sometimes, when intestinal transit is faster than usual, stools can still have non metabolized bile residues and non digested fat. I remember that this happened to me during the nystatin protocol. Bowel movements were just "too fast" and poop was sometimes green.

 

[hesperides]

Another thing I wanted to ask is that I´ve received the DMSA two months ago but I think in my case being prudent with that stuff would be wise, in spite I´ve being taking again multi-minerals to avoid any mineral deficit at the time I was supposed to take said DMSA. Not sure here, any advise? Thanks.

I'm not sure if I understood your question. Do you want to know about re-mineralizing when you're not doing DMSA?

Taking minerals is good during any detox phase. It is specially important to do it after DMSA cycles. However, I will wait until your bowel movements and poop gets stabilized. It is very important to have good overall gut health in order to do DMSA as it might trigger candida overgrowth when all the heavy metals get released.

As for bowel movements, I also noticed the same. I'm going more often and more regular. I think this also reflects a "faster" metabolism. Sometimes, when intestinal transit is faster than usual, stools can still have non metabolized bile residues and non digested fat. I remember that this happened to me during the nystatin protocol. Bowel movements were just "too fast" and poop was sometimes green.

Yes Gaby, that´s what I meant but couldn´t translate it better .Thank you for your reminder about minerals during detox process and I´ll act patiently until better results show up.

I´m under the same impression than you about the metabolism going into overdrive. Actually my nails are also growing much faster, I´m more hungry, I mean real hunger as others have reported here, but don´t feel sleepy after my meals like I would some years ago after a copious dinner. Moreover, having lost 2-3 kgs since starting iodine is surprising, except understanding it from a faster metabolism pov.

 

[Gaby]

I´m under the same impression than you about the metabolism going into overdrive. Actually my nails are also growing much faster, I´m more hungry, I mean real hunger as others have reported here, but don´t feel sleepy after my meals like I would some years ago after a copious dinner. Moreover, having lost 2-3 kgs since starting iodine is surprising, except understanding it from a faster metabolism pov.

Backing off on the dose is a good plan for the time being.

 

[Tuatha de Danaan]

I have been without my computer for a few weeks now, getting old like me,.

I want to thank Laura and Joe for their advice to me.

I now have magnesium malate an 2 types of probiotics. I also have the 5-htp.

No luck with the kombucha tea yet.

I was ready to start the Iodine at week-end and had a total mind collapse. I ate everything in

sight, sweets, cakes and chocolate. Total lack of control.!! What a crazy 48 hours.

I'm back on target again, but it made me realize it takes a lot more will power to control the

selfish "I".

I've also got an awful lot to catch up on so I best get started.

Thank you all for a continual recording of all ups and downs to let us rookies try to play catch-up.

 

[Laura]

Thought I would mention that, for some time, my tinnitus has been seeming to calm down. I waited to observe it for awhile before saying anything, but yes, it seems to be reduced by about 60% and that is a real blessing!

 

[Christine]

Hello,

Is 1 tablespoon(coffee) of lemon juice in tea can remove the effect of iodine?

 

[Persej]

Thought I would mention that, for some time, my tinnitus has been seeming to calm down. I waited to observe it for awhile before saying anything, but yes, it seems to be reduced by about 60% and that is a real blessing!

That's great news! I hope that in the end it will be reduced by 100%. :)

Hello,

Is 1 tablespoon(coffee) of lemon juice in tea can remove the effect of iodine?

Not much, but still don't take it with the iodine to make sure it has the best effect. You can drink it perhaps one hour after iodine. Same with multivitamins that have some Vitamin C in it. I drink plane tea after iodine and take Vitamin C several hours latter.

 

[Divide by Zero]

From a post in a session thread:

Well, you probsbly do not want to be grossed out, but the pictures are not of "stool" but what is in it held up for obsevation. It's called Mucoid plaque if you wish to search for images.

Even though it was about the fiber and other protocols, I sometimes experience small bits of this during the iodine protocol where I would have on/off bowel issues.
Thanks for mentioning the term ziggy, now I see that the iodine protocol is really detoxing!

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I feel a little frustrated when I see people around me with health problems but I am unable to encourage to take iodine. It is no an easy thing to take iodine, and you need a team around you for that. People also are so far away of their bodies, that's a big plus for doctors and pharmaceuticals. All the bad food they eat, all the lies they listen are barriers between them and their bodies. They seem to be stock in a grey world, where curiosity is totally absent, imagination also. Curiosity is so important, so necessary to evolute. It is a sign of intelligence. I am sure that is curiosity that made possible the evolution of the man on earth, at the beginning. But around me I see people without curiosity.

Thanks everybody! I will continue to read this thread, I am always a little late to read it. So many things to read, so much to learn, so little time! And I wish everyone is ok.

Yeah, it's even more aggravating with a friend who tried it before. She did too high doses from the advice of her "expert in everything" friend. So, now when I mention iodine, she has such paranoia- she wants to find a naturalpath who does the protocol which I told her is going to be hard to find!
Sigh- just like the conspiracies, people read the extreme BS ideas and get turned off from the logical questions of official stories!

 

[will01]

Seems my comfortable dose of lugols 5% is 6 drops per day (about 37.5mg), as there has been no detox reactions since reducing from 8 drops a day some 6 weeks ago. The only change has been to take the lugols in a single dose in the morning. Still taking vit C, selenium, salt water etc.

Have also just finished a second round of DMSA, using the protocol outlined by Dr Baker in "Detoxification and Healing". Thought I would use the same approach as taking the lugols and gradually increase the dose of DMSA until finding a tolerable level. Also, the lugols and co-factors were continued throughout, with no problems noted. Chlorella powder as well, 1 teaspoon a day.

The first round was 1 capsule of DMSA (mine are 125mg) once a day in the morning. The second round was 1 capsule morning and night (so 250mg total). No side effects noted, with the exception of slight joint aching and stiffness, more so on the higher dose. Rested for 20 days between rounds to re-mineralise rather than the recommended 11 days, so as to avoid taking DMSA at specific work times in case of debilitating side effects.

For the next round, I was going to add a third capsule at midday, for 375mg total. If this dose is well tolerated, I was going to make this the maximum for further rounds. Given that Dr Baker recommends 200mg DMSA a day per 40lbs bodyweight, my theoretical max dose would be 780mg DMSA at around 156lbs bodyweight.

My question is, would a 375mg dose (or even 250mg) per day be effective enough rather than try to find the maximum amount tolerated? Given the expense of DMSA, it would be a waste not to take an effective amount. On the other hand, who wants side effects and can afford time off work?

 

[will01]

Forgot to mention that on the last day of the second DMSA round, my urine went bright yellow and was somewhat denser than usual with a strong odour. Thought it may have been the vitamins, but when not taking the DMSA with the vitamins, it was a more usual pale yellow.

 

[Christine]

Hello,

Is 1 tablespoon(coffee) of lemon juice in tea can remove the effect of iodine?

Not much, but still don't take it with the iodine to make sure it has the best effect. You can drink it perhaps one hour after iodine. Same with multivitamins that have some Vitamin C in it. I drink plane tea after iodine and take Vitamin C several hours latter.
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Thank you very much for your answer. :)