Anyone Treating Thyroid Symptoms with Iodine??

She should not be recommending Iodine unless she's first tested to make sure that you don't have autoimmune thyroid disease as Iodine won't help at all with that and that is the most common cause of thyroid symtpoms. You might want to join the Texas Thyroid Yahoo group:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas_Thyroid_Groups/
and get more info on this issue. There are some people that do okay by adding the iodine, but they're in the minority. And, I do okay now with a multi-vitamin with Iodine now that I have adequate thyroid hormone. Before that though, the Iodine made me feel better for a bit and then I crashed bigtime. If you have Fibromyalgia, then you know what that means and it's not pretty and takes a while to recover. It's also a mistake to think of the thyroid prescription as a medicine - it's really replacing something your body is not making and not just treating a symptom. If she's checking your thyroid, make sure that along with TSH, she tests the Free T3, Free T4 and thyroid antibodies (TPO and anti-thyroid antibodies). There's also a good list of doctors on the Texas Thyroid website and actually very few in the DFW area that are worth your time - you'll spend months (even years) and not feel any better.

Iodine is often used in instances of radiation/nuclear exposure because it is believed to halt the growth of thyroid cancer. The military used to (and they may still) encourage troops to keep iodine tablets ready in case of a nuclear attack. However, these beliefs aren't supported by the FDA because, as you can imagine, human trials have never been conducted on this. (That's like saying: Here, let me expose you to nuclear fallout and then see if this pill or placebo keeps you from developing cancer... ) Some retail stores and large first aid kits still come with iodine tablets in them.

I agree with Mary... check out the website. I'd forget the iodine and go for the thyroid hormone med if you need it. And the tests really should not be the only measure of whether it's too low or not.

I feel SO much better since I started meds 3 years ago and I'm mad about all those years wasted feeling horrible when I could've been on meds.

The meds are cheap, they won't harm you. So why not take them?

definitely!!! please check out dr brownstiens book on iodine and even if you end up on meds iodine is invaluable for lots of other things while supporting the thyroid!! google brownstien(sp?)you won't be wasting any time!!! C. -you can be allergic to iodine so be careful.