barry update

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i need a little help from the group to sort out what is going on here. any

comments, experience, or suggestions are more than welcome. i began taking

iodine feb. 2nd (was so sick, had to start out at a 1/10 drop of lugols). by the

15th of feb. i had gotten to 1/2 drop of lugols and was really beginning to feel

good. my energy was up, my mood elevated, my brain fog clearing, my facial pain

diminished, etc. by feb. 26th i had worked up to 1 and 1/2 drop of lugols and

that evening crashed big time. i became disoriented, brain fog returned, felt

anxious, fatigue, just miserable (i also did a coffee enema that night, but i'm

not sure if that had anything to do with it). my basal temp in the mornings was

also going up. by the time i reached 1 and 1/2 drops of lugols it had gone up

from 96.8 to 97.4. however, the next morning, feb. 27th, the morning after the

crash, it dropped back down to 96.8 i remained at a drop and a half for a few

days more, but my basal temp remained low and i was not doing that well, so i

dropped back to one drop. my basal temp started to rise again and reached 97.4,

however, i crashed again one evening at one drop and my basal temp dropped once

more to 96.5 the next morning. last night i felt miserable and when i tried to

go to sleep at 10 pm (as i always do), i was so full of anxiety, tossing and

turning, just manic. i have had that before and i recognized it as a sign of too

high cortisol at bedtime (i could be wrong, but that is what it felt like). i

know that if my cortisol level goes down in the am, the nighttime can go up. i

am wondering if taking iodine is stressing my adrenals? i dropped back to 1/2

drop of lugols today and felt pretty decent throughout the day, but tonight i

have stomach distress and my facial pain symptoms have increased. i was really

starting to do well in the beginning and was feeling better every day until it

all fell apart. i feel now that i must have gone too fast. i'm just not sure

what to do anymore. i guess i'll try to just stay at 1/2 drop for a week or two

unless anyone else has other suggestions. i take all the companion nutrients and

do salt loading occasionally. i am so discouraged. i had felt so good and was so

optimistic. what a terrible setback. how am i ever to get well? thanks, barry