Domagoj said:
At first I went with about 50 mg a day and after a while I had a pretty nasty herx episode with cold, rashes, tremors and acne. Kinda stopped for a couple weeks there. Then I realized this isn't working, I'm gonna have to up the dosage. So, I started with 200 mg a day with salt water 1 tsp split into two to three times a day. I immediately felt better. That was about a month and a half ago. Right now, I'm on 600 mg of Iodine a day and I feel better than I have in a long while. Don't plan to go more than about 800 orally. A LOT more will, energy, mental sharpness and quite a bit more productive.
I'm glad there are others who also experimented with higher dosages. I'm taking 5% lugola daily since Christmas - starting wit 50 mg, and next few days 100 mg, and since then 150-250 mg 1-2 times daily, depending on meals (it's hard to take it two times after meal, when there is only one meal a day).
Initially I avoided more than 350 mg a day, since I noticed very moderate signals from kidneys then (probably some toxins were released). So I've been using about 300 mg daily for a month, and last weekend I took 3x250 two days in a row.
Maybe I stop a bit to explain why did I needed it for. In 2006 I was vaccinated against Hepatitis B, and then had terrible pains in the spine - I was almost paralysed for two weeks, 2 months couldn't work. The pains diminished, but some days were better, some worse. In 2009 I started reading LIFE WITHOUT BREAD thread, and eliminated about 99% of wheat from my diet. It really helped. I had no more strong pains in spine, it sometimes hurt a bit, but never was hard enough to be a problem. So I reallu was satisfied with knowledge I found here.
Then few things happened - C's mentioned Iodine, my crazy friend started to take Lugola in gigantique doses (she mixed drops with milligrams), I read article about amoeba infection, and finally I connected it with this paper:
_http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15365133
Then I took 50mg. All the joint paints were gone for a whole day!!! Maybe almost whole day. So I took 100 mg next day. And I felt even better. Taking 250 mg daily I noticed, when decreasing to 150 - it wasn't enough to keep my spine perfect. With 150 I sometimes woke up in the morning feeling some kind of clutch in the spine. So I split the dosage, and took 2x150-200. It was ok, no more morning pains, but... But the clutch on the kidneys appeared. So there was easy solution for this - salt solution. It tasted good, because I love salt. Especially pink one.
And it helped for the pain. When I noticed last week that 500 mg had no effect on my kidneys, in search of totally curing doses I experimented with those 750 mg dosage daily and it appeared new effect - high inflow of energy. But I mean - really high. Usually I'm too lazy to write on forum in English, I prefer my native language, since I can be more accurate. So here I am, writing ;) Next thing - I don't drink coffee or tea, even don't smoke nicotine - I don't like the accelerating effect. But, taking 750 mg of Iodine gave me such a boost like a pernament coffee drinking. And it isn't unpleasent for me. Just enjoying new oceans of energy.
(I'm 43 years old)