Have you been testing serum (or urine) iodine, as well as thyroid numbers? If so, I’m curious what those numbers have been doing. (In fact, I would love to see the whole time course of treatments and relevant blood tests if you’d be willing to share, just to help develop my intuition for mysterious biological processes.) Do you expect to have to continue or resume gargling PVP-I in the future, or otherwise somehow keep getting more iodine into your body than it seems to want to absorb (perhaps through some other formulation that’s neither a pill nor a gargle?)
IIRC my serum iodine after 6 months of gargling and basically-cured hypothyroidism were within a 1% of pre-gargling levels.
After my last test but before getting the results I started forgetting to gargle, and was resistant to taking my medication in the morning. The test revealed this was correct- I didn’t need meds anymore.
I’ve used iodine a bit to treat infections since then but now that I know water is about as good, I will stick to that unless I start craving iodine again or a test reveals my levels have slipped.
Have you been testing serum (or urine) iodine, as well as thyroid numbers? If so, I’m curious what those numbers have been doing. (In fact, I would love to see the whole time course of treatments and relevant blood tests if you’d be willing to share, just to help develop my intuition for mysterious biological processes.) Do you expect to have to continue or resume gargling PVP-I in the future, or otherwise somehow keep getting more iodine into your body than it seems to want to absorb (perhaps through some other formulation that’s neither a pill nor a gargle?)
Thanks for posting about this!
IIRC my serum iodine after 6 months of gargling and basically-cured hypothyroidism were within a 1% of pre-gargling levels.
After my last test but before getting the results I started forgetting to gargle, and was resistant to taking my medication in the morning. The test revealed this was correct- I didn’t need meds anymore.
I’ve used iodine a bit to treat infections since then but now that I know water is about as good, I will stick to that unless I start craving iodine again or a test reveals my levels have slipped.