Hello and welcome to the iodine support forum. When trying to figure out why something is happening, it's best to get as much information from you as possible.

Thank you very much. Okay, I will include eerything.

What is your typical regimen of Iodine? What type of iodine/iodide are you taking? How much of it do you take within a day, week, and at what dosages?

My typical regimen of Iodine was 5-10 drops of Iosol in water. Then  I started upping it to 15. I'm pretty sure my hair was falling out at the lower dosage. I thought it was a "detox" or something. I was doing this every morning. I did it for about a month until I stopped when I realized it was seriously accelerating the problem. 

Selenium, what type of selenium do you take and how much daily?

the type of selenium I was taking was now foods brand I believe (i don't have the bottle around, I can't locate it). But it was 200 mcg/day with the iodine and it was the active ingredient "selethione" (sorry, i don't remember the spelling, it was long word but i remembered it ended in the "ione" and it was the one typically recommended on these types of sites

Vitamin C, what type do you take and how much daily? Do you take your Vitamin C and other supplements at the same time or at different times? Please explain.

Okay, the type of Vitamin C is SOLARAY, two stage timed relase vitamin C 1000MG. I was taking 4 of these per day. it says it has ascorbic acid, rose hips, acerola cherry as ingredients. I just took 4 of them today and my hair started falling out AGAIN and now I'm having shed AGAIN!

At the same time as this, I was taking potent anti fungals. I was taking wormwood, black walnut hull, basil leaf extract, oregeno oil & berberine also. I was taking the anti fungals right after the iodine in the morning, typically on an empty stomach. 

Also, I was taking ecklonia cava. Also had R-Lipoic Acid. (these were at differnet times)

At what point in time does this feelings set in post-consumption of any of the supplements? How long has this been going on? You may be consuming too much of any of the supplements when first starting out. Also, make sure you consume foods with a LOT of antioxidants. Iodine is oxidative.

YES, now it happens whenever I consume any supplements. It's like everything. I just killed all my supplements at the same and was planning on doing them one by one and adding them. I was off everything for about a week and the itching went down greatly. 

How much do you weigh and what's your typical diet like?

I'm VERY skinny. I only weigh like 135 ish/maybe up to 140 and I'm 5 11. My typical diet wasn't that great while on iodine, I was eating gluten here and there. Now, I cleaned it up completely and only eating fruit/vegetables/meat. On this diet the itching went down, but it is still not gone completely. 

Like I said, I tried vitamin C and it kicked my hair loss in again. I know NUTS cause my hair loss to get worse also for someone. 

I also did an IgG food anti body test in the past and it came back allergic to like everything except fruit, vegetables, and meat. Plus, I took finasteride in the past which completely killed my sex drive which isn't helping. (when i got off propecia my hair loss stopped, now i rekicked it in) That's the whole reason I took iodine. The iodine made me better in the sexua| department as in my penis isn't as numb anymore, but now my hair is falling out like crazy with any supplements I put in my body. This is so depressing.. I feel like if only I knew what the imbalance was I could fix it because obviosuly something is going on here. 

Someone told me being allergic to many foods is always a case of low stomach acid. But I have had that for a while. Would taking iodine make this worse possibly? It's like my hair is going everywhere now. I can feel my indivual hairs dying right now since I took VIT C. What the heeeckkkkk? lol. :(

MY next step now is I'm waiting for humviulate (however u spell it) for metal detox. Although, I'm not sure how I'm going to approach this. Probably won't take it with iodine or anything because I don't want to have my hair be completely gone. 

I wasn't eating healthy while on Iodine. Could this have been the problem? What does oxidative mean exactly? Even when I swish celtic sea salt in my mouth, I will feel my scalp getting itchty and inflamed and my hair will fall out. When I take sea salt, it will definitely get itchy and fall out. 

iodine balances hormones. losing hair has always been a possible feature of Iodine supplementation. lots of factors are involved. the loss should be temporary. or maybe youre finally doing what is normal for you under the circumstances of your environment.

your selenium should be selenomethionine only. this could be a copper/zinc imbalance or a copper deficiency due to too much oxidized copper in the body that cant be utilized.

hi trapper,

thanks for your post. yes, this is somethign that i have begun to think is also a possiblity. that since my hair stopped falling out because of finasteride, getting back on iodine has put my body back to the way it should be and now i react to things that should make my hair fallout. 

however, it still doesn't explain why everything seems to make my hair fallout now including things like sea salt or vitamin C. i was thinking about the copper that you mentioned. for example, something requring VIT C is being taken up. i forget if it takes up copper or not. i read something that takes up copper that i was taking but i forget what it was. hmm. 

how do you recommend I go about figuring out what this could be as I agree, it could be so many. like some tests or something.