> From: baron <[log in to unmask]>
> i've recently come upon some fairly diverse opinions regarding iodine
> supplements when a person has a hypothyroid condition.
I've sent a few emails to Dr. David Derry a time or two, and gotten
responses. He's done a lot of research on iodine, this is in answer to a question
about Lugol's Iodine Solution -
Dr. Derry: The skull and x bones are really not a worry. That was
established back in the 1800s. The reason was that some people from low iodine intake
areas would react by becoming hyperthyroid. Others would react by becoming low
thyroid. This was to excessive doses. But all these people had damaged thyroids
from iodine deficiency.
I think the poison sign is still a good idea because it stops people from
being silly with it.
But if you are taking thyroid it does nothing. The iodine mostly goes to the
rest of your body as the thyroid does not take iodine up in its normal manner
if you are taking thyroid medication.
So all the good things iodine does in the rest of the body can be
accomplished if you take higher doses. But there is no worry if you are on thyroid the
way you are.
(Same response, I took 6 drops 4 times daily for a period of time -)
I have tried doses like yours and higher for months without any side effects.
Some patients with cancer have also used higher doses without side effects.
There are published results of high doses in people not on thyroid. In some
cases it does alter their thyroid a bit.
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Because, I always become more fatigued when taking Lugol's Solution (whether
a drop daily, or 24 daily it's the same), I asked what could cause the
fatigue. I've already wondered from other reading about cleansing your body from
toxins if somehow there was that kind of a fatigue effect. Since I'm now
starting to think my problems have more to do with mercury, maybe it's having some
kind of an effect of moving from tissues back to the blood stream. He didn't
know for sure -
Skipper: So, mercury is a possible problem. Would its interaction with
iodine explain why taking Lugol's in any form makes me even more fatigued?
Dr. DerryI don’t have answers to those questions. Iodine will usually react
with and remove excess iodine if there is enough iodine around. The symptoms I
don’t don’t know.
That is a possible explanation.
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So, for most people, as long as their TSH is close to being suppressed, the
thyroid will not take up the iodine and will have no effect on the thyroid. It
will then go where it's needed for immune function.
As for me, I lost many symptoms with thyroid / adrenal treatment, the only
one really not being touched by it is the fatigue. Yet, it's not the same kind
of fatigue I had when my thyroid was really bad when I would be conscious in a
chair unsure of whether I was asleep or awake and wondering if I could even
get up in the event of an emergency. It's not even that much of a physical
fatigue, more of a mental type of fatigue / desire to sleep. Almost like I have
an off switch in my brain that wants to be shut off and go to sleep. I could
sleep all day without much of a problem. (In my chair or couch in the living
room, can't sleep in dark bedroom after 8AM.)
It's hard to understand. But, I was reading a website about conenzyme A.
Someone described the ease with which they fell asleep and it was brought up
that Coenzyme A deficiency can cause that. Coenzyme A is necessary for the
production of cholesterol, mine is low, and the anti-mercury forces say it can mess
with Coenzyme A, lower cholesterol, mess with the enzyme that converts a
precursor to cortisol and so give you a flat cortisol level with an elevated ACTH
asking for more. Sounds an awful lot like my condition.
Maybe Lugol's liberates a toxin that make me tired, the one that causes low
cholesterol, and maybe that's mercury.
Skipper
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