They are here and in links aplenty. I did not appreciate the videos, the jokes I was not in on - not one bit. I skipped those posts and kept reading, began supplementing.

It is not even three weeks later and I find that my mornings moods are ebullient and I am exuberant and childlike in my enthusiasm and sense of humor. It calms down, I calm down an hour or so before the next intake of iodine. The evenings are lovely, calmer, happy and productive - maybe because I am more tired. I have not felt like this since I honestly don't remember. And I find myself walking the streets smiling for no reason at all, not a care in the world.

Now, I have considered if perhaps I am taking in too much Iodine too fast, the posts warning of being careful were not ignored by me... I considered them. I consider it each time anything goes a bit differently for me since I began taking iodine.

I really did not expect my good humor to be something I would have to learn to cope with, modify and curb... not just here... people look at you funny if you just smile all the time. I see that this is a stage of transition for me. I am not sufficient with Iodine yet, perhaps when I am and can move to a more maintenance level of intake I will have gotten used to feeling so bloody good all the time. Meanwhile, I almost want to sing and dance and tell everyone I meet of what has happened.

I do not exaggerate when I say that I have been working and praying for a resurrection of body and spirit for over a decade. I sometimes cannot contain my hope and joy at the prospect of having found it with this simple supplementation.

I do giggle wildly at the fun sitting here at my computer. I don't get bent out of shape by other poster's negativity. I feel for those of us coping with doubt and anxiety. I sometimes regret being light hearted with so much sincerity and intensity happening around me. And I am finally making some clear, confident decisions that I have been avoiding for far too long.

I have had enough experience with my own healing to know that this is a stage and my experience may/will change.

I might come down on the side of the more cautious when all is said and done, time will tell. However, for me, my body, my history I think not, because this ride I would not have missed for anything.

I truly am feeling like I have a whole new life and it is all ahead of me again. And I am fifty. grin