Re: I have Hashi's and I follow the Iodine Project Protocol.

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Hi,

I too have Hashimoto's and fibromyalgia. There seems to be a lot of us out there. I really believe the fibro is actually something happening with hashi's. Like our thyroid is no longer any good because of the Hashi's and we're missing something that they are unaware of. I'm just now looking into iodine.

In a message dated 12/2/2008 4:09:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, s.macgilxrist@... writes:

Hello!

I have Hashimoto's disease and aches and pains that may or may not be Fibromyalgia. Since I live in the provinces of France, far from the capital, I have not yet been able to see a doctor that has even heard of "The Iodine Project" or RT3 and Fibromyalgia has no official existence in France. My MD surveys my general status with 3 monthly blood tests. I have talked to him about what I am doing but I think he is waiting for me to crash or something. My specialist told me I was very naughty to even entertain the idea of taking iodine. Besides the Hashi and possible FM I had, at my last scan, 10 breast cysts in each breast, one of which is 5cm by nearly 2 and the other about 1 by 3. Because my mother died of breast cancer after a history of cysts I was getting a little worried about things. None of the doctors I saw seemed to be alarmed by this. However, when I read the documents posted on the Internet about the Iodine Project I started to believe that I was in a very dangerous situation. So I decided to self medicate.

I did an Iodine loading test using a local lab's services. This test is probably not as accurate as the tests done in Drs Flechas or Hakala's labs but even with a 50-100% error margin, I had excreted between 1 and 8%! So I started self medicating and got almost immediate results by having a marked improvement in premenstrual breast tension. My cycle, which had been getting shorter and shorter, started to get longer after one month only. A visit and manual examination in october to the gyneco gave me encouraging news as far as my breast cysts were concerned.

After investigating on the Internet I thought that I might have Adrenal Fatigue as well, since I was very tired in the afternoon and picked up around 6 in the evening. That seems to have improved since taking iodine.

I still had ache's and pains in my arms, legs and feet which were slowing me down, possible FM. Further investigation made me think I had an RT3 problem. I looked on www.ithyroid.com and have started taking zinc and vitamin B6. Things have improved in only 2 weeks! I am not "out of the woods" yet but my quality of life has improved since I have been taking iodine (infact, the protocol published on www.breastcancerchoices.org) and zinc and vitamin B6. I still take levothyroxine