Re: Trigger thumb

[Guest guest]

Cley..

The consensus around here about iodine; given the onslaught to our

bodies from environmental pollution containing mercury, the water

supply containing fluoride (ordinary filters like pur do not get rid

of) and chlorine; the more iodine you ingest the better. However, in

the beginning, it may be necessary to pulse dose -- on days and off

days -- with the iodine to manage detox symptoms. Have you tried

upping your vitamin C and magnesium? If you are developing gout,

eating cherries (sweet, tart, juice, etc) is an old home remedy that

really does work. Taking some liver supporting supplements like milk

thistle, NAC, etc. might help too. Are you having blood sugar

regulation problems? Low blood sugar can also mean your adrenals are

affected. For me, it means high cortisol.

For me, I went through some detox symptoms that became so

uncomfortable that I stopped the iodine all together for about 3 weeks

at a time while I was taking C, salt, niacin, riboflavin, magnesium,

milk thistle and NAC to flush out the bromide that the iodine had

dislodged. Once that was over, I'd start all over again

Lorie

>

> Within the last month or so I started having a trigger thumb during

> the night. Now it is starting in the early evening and stays through

> the morning. I think it will progress to be all the time unless I

> change something. I read that it is a symptom of hypothyroidism,

> gout, or diabetes.

>

> I started on lugol's iodine maybe 6 months ago or so, I've gone

> between 2 and 3 drops...mostly 2 drops. I started because even though

> I use a progesterone cream I had some hot flashes/menopausal symptoms

> (I will be 56 at the end of Jan.) and I did a skin test with tincture

> of iodine that disappeared soon enough to be a deficiency. I cook with

> celtic sea salt and some Himalayan. I don't eat enough fish and am not

> partial to sushi...so I figured I was deficient...no I wonder it I

> was. Most detox I got was a runny nose/cold like symptoms. I have

> always been thin but no blood work ever said I had a thyroid problem.

> (I am 5'7 " and 120 lbs.)

>

> I wonder if I've caused more harm than good....may I have caused

> myself to become hypothyroid by taking this dose of lugol's? I just

> started cutting back on the lugol's...not taking it everyday more

> because I sometimes forget to take it before 2pm. I don't know if I

> should just stop or actually increase the doses? Is this trigger

> thumb a detox symptom that will go away? I've been searching online

> and I just read how they treat the symptoms...like with surgery or

> cortizone injections. I would prefer to know the underlying cause and

> act on fixing that.

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the reply, Lorie,

I have been using transdermal mag oil which I started at about the

same time as the iodine. I did have high cortisol the last time I had

my hormones checked (a couple of years ago)...adrenal fatigue.

Another reason I started the iodine had to do with a bit of

insomnia...another menopausal symptom.

I probably need to up my Vitamin C. I started using ester C again

because ascorbic acid makes me too acidic. I also use some Natural

Calm (mag citrate) some nights. I do use milk thistle. I don't know

about gout...my big toe was getting a slight be sore on occasion and

I've tended to eat rather rich foods at times. I don't know about my

blood sugar...I've never been diagnosed with any problem with it so I

doubt that is it.

Lucy

[Guest guest]

I just looked up the NAC and I haven't taken that before. It may be

mercury/heavy metals detox. Detox symptoms can be confusing and

upsetting. I don't like feeling worse when I am trying to fix other

areas of not feeling my best. I've tried to keep up with the

recommended supplements while on Iodine...maybe I need to be more

religious about it.

My insomnia has been better since using the iodine and the mag

oil...same with the hot flashes. Trade offs...maybe after Christmas I

will attempt to up the lugol's dose again. I noticed that the source

I was going to buy from next stopped selling it...rats. The stupid

meth makers/addicts are messing it up for the rest of us. It seems to

be affecting the availability of other stuff too like caustic soda/lye

used for making homemade soap...I was looking for some of that last

week wanting to make some Christmas gifts.

I had tried 4 drops for a bit and the detox seemed to get worse. Then

I was worried that I would create a thyroid condition where one didn't

exist before. I figured a maintenance dose was all that was necessary

and safest in the long run. I think I read that too much iodine could

give you hypo or hyper thyroid. I wish I had the money to get a Dr.

who understands this stuff to help. Are there any in the Tampa Bay

area of FL?

Lucy

[Guest guest]

I developed a trigger finger (little finger only, on right hand, at

first) that showed up the morning after I painted walls all day with

a small brush in my right hand. It has progressed to sometimes all

of my fingers (except thumb) on the right hand, but only in the

morning. My chiro says that I'm pinching a nerve in my neck while I

sleep. I mostly sleep on my right side. Since yours comes up in the

evening, could it be your favorite chair? Do you have to hold your

head a certain way because of your reading lamp? etc...

Laurel

>

> Within the last month or so I started having a trigger thumb during

> the night. Now it is starting in the early evening and stays

through

> the morning. I think it will progress to be all the time unless I

> change something. I read that it is a symptom of hypothyroidism,

> gout, or diabetes.

>

> I started on lugol's iodine maybe 6 months ago or so, I've gone

> between 2 and 3 drops...mostly 2 drops. I started because even

though

> I use a progesterone cream I had some hot flashes/menopausal

symptoms

> (I will be 56 at the end of Jan.) and I did a skin test with

tincture

> of iodine that disappeared soon enough to be a deficiency. I cook

with

> celtic sea salt and some Himalayan. I don't eat enough fish and am

not

> partial to sushi...so I figured I was deficient...no I wonder it I

> was. Most detox I got was a runny nose/cold like symptoms. I have

> always been thin but no blood work ever said I had a thyroid

problem.

> (I am 5'7 " and 120 lbs.)

>

> I wonder if I've caused more harm than good....may I have caused

> myself to become hypothyroid by taking this dose of lugol's? I just

> started cutting back on the lugol's...not taking it everyday more

> because I sometimes forget to take it before 2pm. I don't know if I

> should just stop or actually increase the doses? Is this trigger

> thumb a detox symptom that will go away? I've been searching online

> and I just read how they treat the symptoms...like with surgery or

> cortizone injections. I would prefer to know the underlying cause

and

> act on fixing that.

>

[Guest guest]

I get a newsletter from Dr. and he mentioned that

vitamin B6, taken three times a day for a total of 150 mg, will cure

trigger finger in a couple of weeks. Once cured, do not continue the

B6 at a high dose as it will throw off your other B vitamins. Take a

balanced vitamin B supplement instead.

If you look up " trigger finger B6 " you will find more opinions on the

subject.

Val

>

> Within the last month or so I started having a trigger thumb during

> the night. Now it is starting in the early evening and stays through

> the morning. I think it will progress to be all the time unless I

> change something. I read that it is a symptom of hypothyroidism,

> gout, or diabetes.

>

> I started on lugol's iodine maybe 6 months ago or so, I've gone

> between 2 and 3 drops...mostly 2 drops. I started because even though

> I use a progesterone cream I had some hot flashes/menopausal symptoms

> (I will be 56 at the end of Jan.) and I did a skin test with tincture

> of iodine that disappeared soon enough to be a deficiency. I cook with

> celtic sea salt and some Himalayan. I don't eat enough fish and am not

> partial to sushi...so I figured I was deficient...no I wonder it I

> was. Most detox I got was a runny nose/cold like symptoms. I have

> always been thin but no blood work ever said I had a thyroid problem.

> (I am 5'7 " and 120 lbs.)

>

> I wonder if I've caused more harm than good....may I have caused

> myself to become hypothyroid by taking this dose of lugol's? I just

> started cutting back on the lugol's...not taking it everyday more

> because I sometimes forget to take it before 2pm. I don't know if I

> should just stop or actually increase the doses? Is this trigger

> thumb a detox symptom that will go away? I've been searching online

> and I just read how they treat the symptoms...like with surgery or

> cortizone injections. I would prefer to know the underlying cause and

> act on fixing that.

>

[Guest guest]

Laurel,

Initially, I thought it was due to the way I was sleeping. I went to

the chiropractor a few weeks ago and the adjustments didn't help with

the trigger thumb. I tried sleeping with a splint on my thumb for a

couple of nights and it didn't help either. I suppose it could be how

I sit on the couch and read my laptop...my neck bent a certain way. I

did have an odd backache last month that seemed like it could have

been a kidney infection...on both sides. I was wondering if the

iodine detox had contributed to that too.

The iodine is the main new thing I've introduced in the last six or so

months...aside form the Ancient Minerals mag oil.

Val, I will look into supplementing with B6 specifically for a few

weeks. I take a daily B complex. I thought that would be covered

that way.

[Guest guest]

Interesting,

I have been taking Iodine for about 5 months - I'm already hypothyroid

on replacement hormone and I'm also doing some mercury detox stuff.

About 2 months ago I developed a trigger thumb on the right hand. It

would stiffen up over night and be noticabley clunking and painful on

moving it in the morning. Some of the other joints on that hand also

feel a bit stiff. I assume it is part of the detox process because after

getting worse it is now gradually getting better - still a bit of

soreness occasionally but no trigger anymore. I did read of someone

starting to take Iodine because of joint stiffening in the fingers - and

it cleared the stiffness up so I think it is probably important to keep

going, making sure you are using all the other recommended nutrients as

well.

Gail.

>

> Within the last month or so I started having a trigger thumb during

> the night. Now it is starting in the early evening and stays through

> the morning. I think it will progress to be all the time unless I

> change something. I read that it is a symptom of hypothyroidism,

> gout, or diabetes.

>

> I started on lugol's iodine maybe 6 months ago or so, I've gone

> between 2 and 3 drops...mostly 2 drops. I started because even though

> I use a progesterone cream I had some hot flashes/menopausal symptoms

> (I will be 56 at the end of Jan.) and I did a skin test with tincture

> of iodine that disappeared soon enough to be a deficiency. I cook with

> celtic sea salt and some Himalayan. I don't eat enough fish and am not

> partial to sushi...so I figured I was deficient...no I wonder it I

> was. Most detox I got was a runny nose/cold like symptoms. I have

> always been thin but no blood work ever said I had a thyroid problem.

> (I am 5'7 " and 120 lbs.)

>

> I wonder if I've caused more harm than good....may I have caused

> myself to become hypothyroid by taking this dose of lugol's? I just

> started cutting back on the lugol's...not taking it everyday more

> because I sometimes forget to take it before 2pm. I don't know if I

> should just stop or actually increase the doses? Is this trigger

> thumb a detox symptom that will go away? I've been searching online

> and I just read how they treat the symptoms...like with surgery or

> cortizone injections. I would prefer to know the underlying cause and

> act on fixing that.

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Gail, that was encouraging. I wonder why it happens on the

right thumb...odd stuff...or if it is particular to the right side.

I'll hang in there with the iodine. I have been using peroxide on my

toothbrush sometimes too...I suppose that is also causing the

release/breakdown of mercury in the couple of mercury fillings I have

left. I'll need to switch to colloidal silver again. So, it is

probably heavy metal detox.

I got some NAC today. B6 is the next supplement to get. I think I have

most of the others. I may change to a Standard Process Cataplex C I

read about today on Dr. Janet Lang's site.

[Guest guest]

Or it may be something completely unrelated and you just have to

massage your hands with a little DMSO. Jim

>

> Within the last month or so I started having a trigger thumb during

> the night. Now it is starting in the early evening and stays

through

> the morning. I think it will progress to be all the time unless I

> change something. I read that it is a symptom of hypothyroidism,

> gout, or diabetes.

>

> I started on lugol's iodine maybe 6 months ago or so, I've gone

> between 2 and 3 drops...mostly 2 drops. I started because even

though

> I use a progesterone cream I had some hot flashes/menopausal

symptoms

> (I will be 56 at the end of Jan.) and I did a skin test with

tincture

> of iodine that disappeared soon enough to be a deficiency. I cook

with

> celtic sea salt and some Himalayan. I don't eat enough fish and am

not

> partial to sushi...so I figured I was deficient...no I wonder it I

> was. Most detox I got was a runny nose/cold like symptoms. I have

> always been thin but no blood work ever said I had a thyroid

problem.

> (I am 5'7 " and 120 lbs.)

>

> I wonder if I've caused more harm than good....may I have caused

> myself to become hypothyroid by taking this dose of lugol's? I just

> started cutting back on the lugol's...not taking it everyday more

> because I sometimes forget to take it before 2pm. I don't know if I

> should just stop or actually increase the doses? Is this trigger

> thumb a detox symptom that will go away? I've been searching online

> and I just read how they treat the symptoms...like with surgery or

> cortizone injections. I would prefer to know the underlying cause

and

> act on fixing that.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Is your's on the right side as well? Are you right handed? I thought it

could also be tied into usage because the right thumb is so important

with all the technology stuff - the keyboard space, the mouse control,

texting etc. My worst finger apart from the thumb is the middle one and

I realised that one gets a lot of wear when I use a calculator which I

have been doing more of as well. Maybe for a left hander it would be

the left side that gets affected.

I didn't check out which meridian it's associated to - that might be

useful to know as well. And definitely I would recommend getting the

fillings changed - somethings that mobilise mercury to detox it don't

always remove all of it from the body, so you could just be moving the

mercury that's leaching from your fillings deeper into the body tissues.

Gail

>

> Thank you, Gail, that was encouraging. I wonder why it happens on the

> right thumb...odd stuff...or if it is particular to the right side.

>

> I'll hang in there with the iodine. I have been using peroxide on my

> toothbrush sometimes too...I suppose that is also causing the

> release/breakdown of mercury in the couple of mercury fillings I have

> left. I'll need to switch to colloidal silver again. So, it is

> probably heavy metal detox.

>

> I got some NAC today. B6 is the next supplement to get. I think I have

> most of the others. I may change to a Standard Process Cataplex C I

> read about today on Dr. Janet Lang's site.

>

[Guest guest]

Gail,

I am left handed. I use my left hand on the mouse when using the PC

but I use my right fingers on the mouse pad on the laptop.

,

And I could try massaging with some DMSO but wouldn't that be treating

the symptom and not the cause?

Lucy

[Guest guest]

it travels the nerve to the thumb coming out of c1-c3 I believe. linda rn

Re: Trigger thumb

Thank you, Gail, that was encouraging. I wonder why it happens on theright thumb...odd stuff...or if it is particular to the right side. I'll hang in there with the iodine. I have been using peroxide on mytoothbrush sometimes too...I suppose that is also causing therelease/breakdown of mercury in the couple of mercury fillings I haveleft. I'll need to switch to colloidal silver again. So, it isprobably heavy metal detox. I got some NAC today. B6 is the next supplement to get. I think I havemost of the others. I may change to a Standard Process Cataplex C Iread about today on Dr. Janet Lang's site.

[Guest guest]

>

> Gail,

> I am left handed. I use my left hand on the mouse when using the PC

> but I use my right fingers on the mouse pad on the laptop.

>

> ,

> And I could try massaging with some DMSO but wouldn't that be treating

> the symptom and not the cause?

>

> Lucy

That's really interesting Lucy - I'm a homoeopath and to learn like this

that Iodine has an affinity to the right thumb is fascinating to me. In

homoeopathy what a substance can cause it can cure - it is a dose

dependant and individual response interaction. When you treat using the

homoeopathic principle of 'like cures like' there is often an

aggravation of symptoms before they are cured.

Gail