It’s been a year and a half since I started taking iodine, and I’m still improving and getting better every day. This year I put in a large vegetable garden that I mostly looked after by myself, and even though I didn’t get all the weeding done to my satisfaction, we still got a good crop of fresh veggies. I worked in my garden most mornings and evenings planting seeds and seedlings, pulling weeds, watering etc., and the amount of work that I was doing each and every day amazed me. I could work in the garden in the early morning, come back inside and do some housework, make meals, work at my accounting business, go back out in the evening and do more work in the garden, come in for the evening and putter around the house doing a few more tasks, watch some television, go to bed, and get up and do it all over again the next day.
I’d often be quite sore after spending an hour pulling weeds, but it didn’t last for days on end like before. I’d make sure I continued to move around a bit throughout the day after I was done in the garden (so I didn’t seize up too badly), and I might take a Tylenol or two, and maybe apply some anti-inflammatory cream to the really sore spots (neck, shoulders, back), but after a good night’s sleep I was usually fine the next morning and ready to go back out and do it all over again. This was unheard of before. For starters, I couldn’t stay out for anywhere near an hour or I’d have severe pain for several days, and I certainly wasn’t able to get back out into the garden again the very next day, and the day after that, and continue planting seeds and pulling weeds.
I still find it hard to believe that my body is able to recover from tasks I did the previous day, or even that morning, and be able to continue on and do more later that same day. It’s been so long since I’ve been able to work like this that I still have moments when I have to pinch myself. But, I also have to be careful, because I have a bad habit of overdoing it, and I still don’t quite know just how far I can go without injuring myself and making it so I can’t get out and do more later.
These days my husband and I are also able to go out frequently, something I couldn’t really do before. Before iodine, we couldn’t go out for too long, and I certainly couldn’t expect to do much else that day. I literally had to get accounting work and housework done on Saturday if we wanted to go out on Sunday, and I had to make sure I didn’t do too much on Saturday or I wouldn’t feel well enough to go out the next day. Now we can just jump in the car and go out anytime we feel like it.
And most recently, I’ve been able to start knitting again. I had to all but give that up years ago because the repetitive motion always resulted in severe pain in my hands, arms, neck, shoulders, and back, plus I’d end up with a migraine-type headache. Not anymore! Last weekend I found a pattern that I really liked and I decided to give it a try. I started it on Monday, and today, Friday, I’ve nearly knit up an entire ball of yarn. I have zero pain and I can keep knitting day after day without so much as a headache. Before, it literally took me a year to knit one hat and one scarf because I could only knit a handful of stitches before I had to stop, and then I’d be in pain and have violent headaches for days and days, so it would be quite some time before I’d be able to pick the knitting up again. And to be honest, I wasn’t that keen on trying to do something that was making me so miserable, even though I really do enjoy it. Now, I’m knitting every single day and I have a couple of projects on the go. I can’t even begin to describe what it feels like to finally be able to do something I had pretty much resigned myself to giving up forever.
I had to give up so many things over the years that I’m overjoyed that I’ve finally managed to take something back, to be able to resume doing something I love instead of having to give it up. This, for me, is real progress. This tells me that the iodine protocol is truly healing me, is changing my life, and letting me get back to doing things I never, ever thought I’d be able to do again. I urge to give it a try because it might give you back your life as well!!