Iodoral side effects?

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I've been on Iodoral for 2 years now. I started very slowly with 6.25mg

3xweek** for quite awhile, eventually working up to 12.5mg daily. I started

with the low dose due to long-term high TPO ab. Early on (2 years ago) I had a

lot of pimple-like bumps on my body but I had just started using a far-infrared

sauna at the same time and attributed the bumps to that and/or the iodine. **My

TPOab have decreased over the last 9 years as long as I stay on HC. 12.5mg

Iodoral did not have a negative effect on them but wonder if going up on the

Iodoral amount might.

The low dose Iodoral I took the first year or so alleviated my fibrocystic

breasts I'd had for 30 years(!) in about 4 months or less.

I would like to do the Hakala Labs test but we've changed cafeteria plans and I

can't pay for it out of that without a doctor requiring it.

The last month or so I've increased to 18.75mg and tried 25mg several days. At

25 mg, the bumps have come back (detox, right?) and something else weird is

happening. Would you please tell me if this is something that has happened to

anyone else? Is it just part of detox? I have red, dry, cracked skin over the

knuckles on my left hand. If I go back down to 12.5 or 18.75mg, it will go back

to normal. Then when I go back up to 25mg, it comes back. Go down and a couple

of days later goes away. Seems correlated but weird to me.

I am seeing a Chronic Fatigue specialist, have had thyroid autoimmune for 9

years (now on Armour and a little T3), self-treated adrenal fatigue 2 years ago

with Isocort and now with HC, florinef for low to no aldosterone, anti-viral

supplements for EBV & low NK Cells, some specific deficient nutritionals (B1,

B7, Zinc & glycine) in additional to normal supplements and am facing open heart

surgery in 2 weeks for a rare, benign heart tumor (called a myxoma - anybody

heard of this?). Is this a bad time to even try to be going up on the iodine?

I'll be in ICU for 1-2 days and the hospital another 4-7 days after that so

probably off all supplements most of that time.

Thanks for any advice and clarification on my symptoms.

Janie J.