I would be concerned about possible redistrubution from the iodine, but yours is a tough case because iodine would be important if your taking florinef. I'm pretty sure iodine releases mercury, Dr. Brownstein did some tests and it showed mercury showed up in high levels after iodoral was started. Just be careful, and don't be afraid to take time off of iodine if you are feeling to ill. You probably got more iodine in the last year than most americans get in there entire life.

Your hair patch will grow back if you are able to chelate the mercury out of the body at some point. I have patches on my leg (specific spots on both my calf and my thigh, that clearly looked cleanly shaven even though I had normal amounts of hair on the rest of my leg, and it was the same pattern on both legs) that never had hair that are starting to grow hair after ALA chelation...Now where it was completely bald it is stubbly and slowly growing...slowly.

I've been chelating w/ala for like 7 months, though about 2.5 months ago I found out there was still a small piece of mercury hidden under a composite filling in my mouth so I'm not sure if the ALA chelation helped before that point.

I'm doing really well, but still have a long way to go, but I'm so far away from the hell I was in ~3 years ago that I can't complain. Life has been very accommodating and low stress, and I feel very blessed for that...

Just please listen to your body if you start a maintenance dose of iodoral after you are stable on your meds. Even if its a small dose you might not be able to handle the toxins it releases, which could be even worse than the bit of fluoride in the florinef. Over the years, the worst thing I've done is not listen to my body and do things based on principle...and I would just grin and bear the symptoms and it really only made things harder in the long run.