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Very interesting. Thanks, TC. Has anyone tried iodine therapy? If so, could you share your experience?
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hiker53
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I have tried it. Made my throat very sore for some reason and was too much for me.
I do take a supplement called Mintran (Standard Process product). One dose of 4 tablets has 135% of the RDA (200 micrograms per dose). I take 2-4 doses per day. It does help me detox and helps with leg twitches and helps me sleep better at night.
I believe sixgoofy has experience, so maybe she can add her thoughts.
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Almost my entire family has had experience with Iodine Therapy, including myself -- not for Lyme but for the purpose of enhancing general health. Here is a link to the most comprehensive Iodine Therapy Protocol on the internet, which was written by an experienced naturopath who herself had been an iodine patient of an Iodine-Literate MD who in turn had studied under Dr. Guy Abraham, the originator of the theory behind it. http://steppingstonesliving.com/resources/downloads/ -- Click on the link on this webpage to download the protocol.
When you read this protocol, it spells out an important precaution about starting with selenium (Se) first for at least 2-3 weeks in order to prevent the possibility of a "thyroid storm" caused by a tendency to Grave's disease (hyperthyroidism) in persons who might not be aware that they are at risk for triggering this condition. Pay attention to that warning.
The best form of Se is named within the protocol document. Heed it.
One member of our family got rid of a suspicious breast lump (benign fibroadenoma).
I did it as a means of support for the person who was taking it for her suspicious breast lump, in order to know if there were any problems with the protocol which might cause problems and also because I had had a goiter at the time of menopause which had gone away after several months of taking 1T each of sea kelp (which contains iodine) and 1T of cod liver oil (which also contains iodine) daily -- based on information found in an out-of-print book by nutritionist Adelle Davis. Iodine did seem to help improve my energy level.
My husband followed the Iodine Protocol for prostatitis, but he probably didn't take high enough dosage of iodine, so he quit after several months. It was only later that we learned that his dosage had been too low, but by then he was no longer interested in repeating the protocol. By then, he was more interested in taking herbals for his condition instead.
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TX Lyme Mom
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quote:Originally posted by TX Lyme Mom: One member of our family got rid of a suspicious breast lump (benign fibroadenoma).
I'm editing to add that the statement above is an over-simplification. Her fibroadenoma stopped growing after she took iodine (according to the protocol at the link above), and her gynecologist was very surprised by her follow-up mammogram which indicated the shrinkage because she had never seen any patient's breast lump stop growing and shrink like that before.
The breast lump didn't disappear that rapidly though, but it has gone away over time since then, which is still extremely unusual, although BHRT should get part of the credit for the improvement.
In fact, BHRT plus the Iodine Protocol (link in message, above) is the recommended combo for dealing with these kinds of benign breast lumps which can be very worrisome nonetheless. One famous BC expert (Garth Nicolson, PhD) says that fibroadenomas never ever evolve into actual BC (personal communication), while newer thinking indicates that they can sometimes do so. It's hard to know which "experts" to believe about this.
That's why I don't want to exaggerate about this matter and why I wanted to correct the record with a follow-up message -- instead of editing the previous message which was posted several hours ago, for fear that too many folks who read it won't see the correction unless I post it as a new message.
I was in a hurry when posting my previous message, due to an interruption, so I didn't take time to explain it as carefully as I should have done at that time, and I apologize for any confusion that statement might have caused.
The former Lyme patient in our family had already put Lyme behind her (without relapse for going-on 8 years now) BEFORE implementing Iodine Therapy for her fibroadenoma. That's why we cannot make the claim that Iodine Therapy is what cured her Lyme disease. That possibility is for others to discover who still have active Lyme infections.
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Judie
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It made me horribly nauseous and didn't help. I tried it for several month. YMMV
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TX Lyme Mom
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Judie, If you read through the Iodine Protocol Guidelines which I posted the link to (above), there is a work-around for all of these uncomfortable side-effects from iodine therapy. The trick is in knowing how to manage these unnecessary symptoms in order to realize the benefits from iodine therapy.
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Tincup
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Thanks TX Mom for adding that valuable info. Very nice!
I've not used oral (pills) iodine. Hard to swallow pills anymore and I am sick of taking them.
My thought (and LLMD advise) is a little dab will do ya so I touch my skin every so often with a dab or two. (Lugols)
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