Glass Chatroom Board

Katie - The best form of iodine that you can get online is called Iodoral. It is hard to find the larger dose pills (50 mg) but the 12.5 m.g. dose is usually available. I wouldn't take this or any iodine or kelp product unless you're having regular testing of your TSH and occasional testing of free t3, free t4. I currently take 3 of the 12.5 mg pills/day or 1 50 mg only 5 days/wk. That's what I need. Any natural practitioner will tell you that standard levels according to traditional doctors is wrong. For this reason you need a naturopath, doctor or nurse practitioner who is thyroid savvy. The 'doctor' I was seeing prescribed such garbage that I went from hyper to hypo in just 2 months! I now take Armour Thyroid (yes, pig thyroid hormone!) because it's actually more natural than the Synthroid and other crap made in a lab. And I do the Iodoral because all breast cancer patients have low thyroid because breast tissue steals all the iodine leaving nothing for the thyroid. It's not something to treat casually so find a good herbalist or naturopath. Good luck!
BTW, whenever a reactor blows there is a shortage of iodine worldwide. I had a heck of a time getting it after Fukushima. So now I have a supply stowed in the freezer in case our reactor goes. It's old (Plymouth MA) and should be retired. When it blows, only 10% of Cape Codders will get off the peninsula in time.
Janice