Think Adrenals Interfering with my Thyroxine Uptake

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Hi Shelagh and Everyone

Have been reading a lot on Adrenals and have had advice in the past

from the site. Now I am ready to start looking at the problems my

adrenals have been causing with my thyroxine uptake. After eight

months now on thyroxine (I will be posing shortly photos on the files

of before during and almost after still have a long way to go,

although I have lost 4 stone now), I am feeling a lot better most of

the time. But and this is the problem, occasionally they do not seem

to work as well. I put my dose up to 150 micrograms and my doctor was

not happy with this as she said that 100 was a large dose! I did not

think that the case from reading the site. The 150 made me feel a bit

better and I shall carry on taking that amount regardless even if I

have to buy it off the net to supplement my prescription! I don’t feel

hyper at all no racing pulse or anything but when I switch down again

I feel tired shivery and emotional. Now to the adrenals †" I am

wondering if my adrenals need some support as I have been undiagnosed

hypo for several years because of my normal readings of TSH. It seem

that if my TSH goes above 1 I start to feel hypo. It seems that when

I get stressed have a bad weekend my symptoms come back for a short

while and I am rushing to the doctor for antidepresants and I feel

tired and get the cold shivers again also a bad/upset stomach. I

cannot afford at the moment to have the spit tests done but I could

afford to buy some more vitamins etc that would help. Does anyone know

the best things I could take? I would be grateful for any advice. If I

am going to buy something I want it to be something recommended from

you lot as you are so knowledgeable. My doctor would not investigate

the problem because she said that the treatment was a type of steroids

and I had been on them for my asthma for years but not in the last

year since I started the thyroxine and she wants to keep me off

steroids. I must admit I did not like taking steroids all those years

on and off but they helped with my breathing as it was very very bad.

Now of course the thyroxine, and treatment for the anemias (plural as

I had two) I had has almost cured that. Wierd what an underactive

thyroid can do isnt it.

Luv