Well to our surprise we woke up today and our internet is working! Yay. Now it's time to work again. :-/ Thanks Sean. I live in PA so we weren't expecting such a rough time from Ike's remnants. It didn't even rain here, but the wind was incredible. They said the highest recorded in the area was 80mph!

Let me try to respond now to some of the questions asked. Jeanie I am 24, so yes I am a youngen but I certainly don't feel 24 some days. haha I've been feeling a LOT better recently.

Sean, the one thing that makes me vomit is zinc! I cannot take that stuff for some reason. Immediately after taking it, I will vomit or get a severe stomach ache.

On to the iodine concerns. When my hair started to fall out I was on 1 Iodoral a day which is 12.5mg. This is not considered excessive to those who supplement with iodine. Some people on the curezone supplementation forum are on 8+ pills a day. I saw someone on 32 lugol's drops a day.

I think it started to move a lot of the toxins out of my thyroid, which is what started the hair loss. It sucks not having a chunk of my hair, but if it's getting stuff out of my thyroid then I am okay with it. When I was first taking Iodine I didn't even realize what it did. My doctor said to take it and I did because it can help with cysts. I have a large cyst on my collar bone that I was hoping would shrink it. The cyst has shrunk over the past year, but it's still there.

I began to research the type of hair loss I had. That is when I learned what Iodine did in the body. Lots of women with Alopecia Areata actually take iodine for it. They will also rub iodine on their bald patches and some women have had success with it growing back. This info sort of confused me, but I have to wonder if the toxins got stuck in my body when I started to take the iodine. Perhaps because I had all 8 amalgams in my mouth still. I was in really bad shape when this started to happen. Maybe my body finally had enough.

The curezone forum on iodine supplementation is very good and active. I was reading some people's posts about having crazy detoxing symptoms. I told my doctor that all of these new symptoms were from the iodine. He said he never saw anyone unable to handle iodine like me, but it wasn't excessive symptoms like he thought. These were definitely detoxing symptoms, which are listed here.
http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/bromidedetoxsymptomsandstrategies.html

I had the classic boil like pimples which is caused by bromide coming to the surface of the skin. My emotions were crazy. I felt like I had drank a bunch of coffee. Now all of those are nonexistent now, but detoxing symptoms are a good thing in my opinion. Salt loading really helped me out with the symptoms, but at this point in my life I was on a basically no salt diet. Salt really bothered me for a while, but now I eat salt whenever I want.

My skin complexion has been really good since my amalgams have been out. I still have a few scars on the right side of my cheek, but nothing new has developed!

My hair loss is without a doubt an autoimmune attack. My body is attacking my hair follicles. The main reason why this can occur is heavy metals and other toxins. I know that I have this.

I wouldn't be afraid of iodine because of what happened to me. I have never seen anyone else develop autoimmune hair loss from iodine. The hair loss you see as a symptom of excessive is diffuse hair loss. This isn't what I have. Perhaps my hair loss coming after iodine supplementation was just a coincidence. I will never know, but I am where I am. It will be a year at the end of October. When it first started to happen it came at a time when I was thinking about going into modeling. It completely ruined everything I wanted to do. Perhaps this was a nudge to tell me not to do it. I will never know. These days I put my hair up, down, whatever and normally don't care what people think. Believe it or not but I can still hide both spots. I just part my hair on the right side and flip it over the left. Not many people even know it's there. My dentist who removed the amalgams didn't even realize it until I showed him.

I was banned from a hair loss forum I used to visit because I started talking about heavy metal/mercury poisoning as a cause for AA. They didn't want to hear anything about it.

I took a new picture yesterday.

This spot is much larger than before. Ugh my hair was dried out from showering at our in-laws house. My hair hasn't seen chlorine for 5 years and wasn't happy about it.