pamojja wrote:I know some rare cases on the ME/CFS forum, for which any Pyridoxine causes neuropathy. But P-5-5 not.
But in your case, it's probably indeed the prediabetes. Had no difficulty stopping industrially fabricated foods, simply exchanged sugar with stevia extract.
Funny you mention stevia....I take 2g of powdered "Swanson's" Ascorbic Acid plus 1g of "Now" powdered Lysine with a few drops of stevia when I get tired of the tart, and it tasted sort of like a fruit drink......spaced throughout the day 3 or 4 times. That and Magnesium night and morning has brought me back from the brink and I feel great.....no more cramping legs and nervous feet either.........so to get neuropathy suddenly, was a surprise.
I will stop the B-100 and try to find a better source of the B vitamins without Pyridoxine. I Thank you, Blanko, and Ofonorow for your replies.
Blanko wrote:Your supplement regime is very aggressive. 8 drops of Lugol's a day!
What effect have you been noticing from that level of iodine?
RE: neuropathy, you need to cut out the pyridoxine immediately. 106 mg/day over time WILL cause neuropathy in many people.
My Iodine dose matches my wife's dose, and was suggested by Lynne Farrow in her
The Iodine Crisis book. She said the dose was comparable to the daily dose Japanese coastal people ingest in their normal daily diet containing Iodine-rich Seaweed, their vegetable staple.....those coastal people who don't have breast, thyroid, or prostate cancer, normally, unless they go inland, and start eating Western food. My wife is seeing a lady doctor now who will consider giving her T3 thyroid hormone.....finally.....after being stuck with just T4 (standard of care) for two years. So the doc wants her to stop the Iodine first....claiming her blood test shows too much! T3 will finally (maybe) allow her to lose the weight, her lack of a Thryroid caused. I predict that if she does stop Iodine the new T3 hormone will be compromised....since with no Iodine in our diet, T3 won't have a source for it will it. We are a long way from any Iodine source in the soil.....and Iodized salt is a joke....it dissapates once you open the container.....and besides other salt sources are healthier than processed salt.
But the reason my wife no longer has a thyroid is because her goiter convinced the MD's that she might have cancer. Biopsy after the Thyroidectomy said otherwise.....but what she did have is NO Iodine.....just like most breast cancer patients, prostate cancer patients, and other glandular cancer patients. Logically in my mind comes the thought that T4, the storage hormone of Iodine, in her body was NOT being converted to the active hormone T3......so since then, given only T4 Levothyroxine, she still has low T3 and weight gain.......but at least she won't get the goiter back because she has no thyroid!
Chances are the 8 drops I take didn't cause anything....because stopping my Iodine didn't stop the Neuropathy....least not yet. We will see if stopping Pyridoxine helps.....hope so, took my last doses last night and this morning. Thank you all.....will let you all know.....
Oh, I forgot, you asked about "effects" of 8 drops of Lugol's, 5%. No effects if the neuropathy was caused by Pyrodoxine.....well, except that I don't have to pee as often since my prostate is much better. Taking the powdered Vit. C and Lysine, and Proline, and my other vitiamins and minerals at night means I drink lots of water, maybe 16 to 25 ounces, just before bed. I wake up by bladder pressure about 5 AM ....that sure beats 4 times a night 2 years ago.