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Hello, I've been reading posts whenever I have the time and energy.

I've had so many symptoms for the past 25 years that it would take too

much space to list them all, so for now I'll just say that chronic

fatigue, fibromyalgia, and hypoglycemia were the most obvious when my

health started to get really bad. Looking back, though, I can see that

I have a lot of symptoms even when I was a child. I started taking NOW

brand potassium iodide 2 weeks ago because of low body temperature. I

had been taking a thyroid glandular on and off, and although I felt

better when I took it, my body temperature was still very low. I

started with just one tablet (225 mcg), and my digestion improved. One

morning I decided to take two tablets, and not long thereafter, I

started to feel terrible. Fortunately, that day I started to come

across some of the very good sites about iodine, including

www.iodine4health.com and breastcancerchoices.org, and realized that I

was most likely detoxing bromine.

This is all very exciting for me, because this might be getting very

close to the root of all my problems. I have 4 sisters and a brother

who all grew up on the same diet, though, and they didn't have the

issues I had as a child, so there was something different about my

body, but I don't know what.

I started taking 1/2 a tablet of Iodoral 10 days ago, and then after a

few days increased it to a whole tablet. When I increased to a whole

tablet, the detox symptoms became too severe, so I'm back to 1/2 a

tablet.

When the pain of detoxing is very severe, I feel like I don't want to

be alive. When the detoxing isn't so severe, I start to think about

how amazing this whole thing is, and become very hopeful that some day

I will be able to live a normal life again. A normal life to me would

mean being able to eat, sleep, be somewhat pain free, be able to think

and focus, and have enough energy to do what I need to do to take care

of myself.

Thank you this forum. I appreciate it.

Betsy