Lara Briden's Forum

I have recently come off the OCP after many, many years. My breasts are incredibly sore all the time, regardless of cycle timing. My periods are yet to restore to a normal cycle, but I can’t deal with the significant pain in my breasts.
I have bought Bioceuticals Iodine drops which is a dosage of 3 drops equivalent to potassium iodide (376mcg) equiv to 288mcg iodine and 89mcg of potassium. I don’t have thyroid antibodies present, so would this mean
288mcg/3 drops = 96mcg of iodine and therefore would take 20 drops for 2016mcg of iodine, for example?
Your help would be much appreciated! Thank you so much

Good question. And yes, it would be about 20 drops of that product which is a lot of potassium iodide. I often prefer to use molecular iodine because molecular iodine is safer than potassium iodide. So, with my Australian patients (if that's where you are), I typically prescribe a starting dose of 1 teardrop-size droplet of this molecular iodine which gives 1.2 mg (1200 mcg).