I started taking iodine about a year ago. My "natural" doctor put me on 1 tab a day of Iodoral. Well immediately following this, my hair started to fall out. To this day I have pinpointed my hair loss trigger to either iodine or cortef.

I've been taking 1 tab of iodine for quite a while now. It is really good for your thyroid and actually made my morning temperatures go up an entire degree. I definitely recommend it. However don't do more than 1 tab to start ESPECIALLY if you are mercury detoxing. Even a half tab might not be a bad idea. You will likely have detoxing symptoms just from the iodine.

When I first started taking it, my main symptom was that I felt like I had drank 10 espressos. My husband didn't have this feeling when he took it. It would give me this crazy burst of energy.

Now that I am on my first day of DMSA, I realize that feeling was mercury being moved. I feel like I have had 10 espressos today! haha

Iodine is the only thing I know that will rid the body of bromide and fluoride. The detoxing effects aren't pretty, so be careful. It took about 3 months of 3 pills a day for the iodine detoxing symptoms to go away. DO NOT start at that many pills though. You will feel terrible.

There is an entire curezone forum dedicated to Iodine therapy.
http://curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=815