Re: Help with 2% SSKI, etc.

My issue began around 1990 with a wart on my neck putting down a root. It felt like an ice pick was stabbing me every once in a while, with many months in between. I also had a swollen lymph gland on that side of my neck constantly for years. By 2001 my neck was itching like crazy. One whole side of the thyroid butterfly wing. It felt like an ant was stinging my esophagus. Long story, told it many times, lots of symptoms. I was dying, to make a long story short. I have hep C, it weakens the immune system and makes you vulnerable to opportunistic infections. I am pretty sure the HPV causing the wart was spreading around in my thyroid gland on the right side. Just a hypothesis. Anyways, Iodine did wonders for my health. It got rid of tachycardia, ended my knee joint pain, firmed up by skin, the lumps smoothed out of my breasts. I started waking up at dawn eagerly looking forward to my day. I went from sleeping 10-12 hours per day to only needing 5-6 hours of sleep. I felt strong (and still do) like Pop Eye after eating spinach.

Anyways, my health situation is very complicated. I was raised on a chicken farm and got a really bad case of pinworms and Ascaris as a kid. Ran around barefooted among farm animals. Got hookworms. Combine that with HPV, Hep C, Hep A, Herpes, chicken pox, measles, polio vaccine and it was a near death experience, I assure you. Anyways I have been working on getting better for years. And every time I figure out a new piece of the puzzle, I feel better and stronger than before. I am 59. And I feel better than I felt in high school when I was infected with all those worms. But I still have things I need to work on. When I first got on Iodine, I was very cold natured, and took a sweater everywhere, even in the summer. My hands and feet were cold almost all the time. After ten years on Iodine only my fingers and toes were cold.

I switched from Lugols to SSKI because I thought there might be a potassium issue, and I wanted to protect from the Fukushima radiation, which requires the potassium. So that is when I switched from Lugols to SSKI . I had super high dosed with Iodine off and on for years prior to that. And I had taken around 12 mgs daily religiously for years, whether I was high dosing or not. But that SSKI gave me a terrible headache and hyper thyroid symptoms. So I had to go back to taking Lugols. I could not tolerate the SKKI. I got paranoid beyond belief. It affected my memory. I walked around in little circles. So I resumed with Lugols.

Meanwhile I was still trying to figure out what to do about the cold hands and feel when I found a naturopathic doctor who shot his laser gun at my toe and said the temperature was not right. He sold me a thyroid supplement. I took it for about two weeks and developed the symptoms of Grave's disease. I got really sick for a few days.

So Gina Girl told me about lithium. And I was definitely lithium deficient. And I ordered some thyroid calming herbs. I am still sorting it all out and trying to figure out WTF?!?!? I have symptoms that are consistent with the type of thyroid cancer that affects the assimilation of calcium~ a chronic cough and pain in my breast. A mammogram says there is no breast cancer. And I do not have any fibroids. I also have symptoms that are consistent with a hyperparathyroid condition, as I have been diagnosed with osteopenia and my bones ache and feel delicate. But the naturopath that sold me the thyroid substance has made me aware that my symptoms are also consistent with hypothyroid in combination with over active adrenal glands. So I am going to try switching from thyroid calming herbs to adrenal support, to see what will happen because I would hate to aggravate a hypo-thyroid condition, if that is what is going on.

I am currently hoping the naturopath is right and the calcium assimilation problems are a Vitamin K deficiency. Wouldn't that be nice??? Whew!

I just worry about people with warts on their neck like the ones that run in my family, because pappiloma viruses will put down roots in the thyroid gland. And some HPV causes cancer. So listen to your body and if it feels like your head is going to explode like a volcano, lower the dose, no matter what you are taking.

***It is my understanding that only about 1 in 200,000 people will experience a situation that is as complicated as what is going on with me. And there aren't even that many members on all of Cure Zone. So there probably isn't very much for anybody to worry about. But meanwhile, ultimately everybody has their own P-450 profile. And each person's body will respond differently to nutritional supplements and food. Your body can tell you what it needs if you know how to listen to it. It will also let you know when you are taxing it unfairly.

(And a healthy body politic will let the government know what it requires too…)

Other people can tell you what they have done, how much they have taken, and how it has affected them. But you are the one who is ultimately responsible for taking good care of your body. If you think you should be able to do something, simply because somebody else did it, then you could accidentally harm yourself. So don't compete. Start low, build up slowly, lower the dose if it makes you feel too badly, and be willing to her x. The most I could ever do was 100 mgs of Lugols for a few weeks at a time. I got too paranoid. Call me a metal head. Maybe because I replaced my Amalgams with nickel fillings before I knew what I was doing. When I get the money I will have the nickel pulled off and replaced with Cerec.

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