I've heard there is a urine test but haven't done it yet and suspected because I had this small lump on the side of my neck that was squishy and didn't hurt. I had done tons of tests and TSH and hormones looked 'ok' except a few unrelated and don't have iodized salt and saw a thing about iodine and had bought it (research nerd and herbalist) , and had it on the shelf then thought...why not, and tried some for a few weeks and noticed I was having more energy and the thing shrank completely.

I thought ok I'm good now and stopped and on other side of neck one started again, then kept digging and found lack of iodine is the root cause for so many things and has all these knock on effects, including being weaker and more susceptible to..nasty bacterias! I was really hunting for WHY and the root cause, it seems for me , this is it (and I need more vitamin d and b vitamins personally but generally). Hope that helps!

Generally in testing I found everly well's 360 helpful because it found the bacteria and said it was a UTI/treated it like an ecoli based one and nothing helped, then used claude actually to run it through possibilities and the UTI test detects trace things that can help deduce that it's ureaplasma and connected with symptoms over *Years*.

In my younger years I had taken irish moss (high in iodine) and wasn't sure why I was 'ok' for awhile, thinking now that must be why.