Visit with Dr P

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Hi everyone

Apologies if you've already received this message but although I

have seen one reply this morning,(thanks Marie, will be replying

shortly)I myself never received the message, so I'm re-sending it in

case any one else has had the same problem as me. It's happened like

this once or twice lately, not quite sure why.

Thank you to all those who tried to help me suss out what's been

going on with me the last couple of weeks with my high T4 count.

I've just returned from a visit with Dr P and it seems it was high

because I wasn't converting enough. The symptoms of heart awareness

and pounding and a body buzziness were definitely due to high T4 he

said.

On the plus side he thinks I don't have a thyroid problem anymore!

It appears my body has been sorting itself out! And when my adrenals

are a little more healed, enabling more conversion, the T4 level

should go down.

I was very surprised because my latest ASI test showed almost a flat

line, a term Dr P himself used when he saw it, and I went feeling

certain he would recommend HC. But no, he said my symptoms didn't

warrant that, that my body seemed to be healing itself. He suggested

I carried on taking the supplements I already take, maybe increasing

the vitamin C.

I asked him a bit more about my ASI test because it had quite

freaked me out. I had remembered on the morning of the test I had

had a massive drenching night sweat about two hours before filling

up my first tube. He said I might have used up a lot of the cortisol

that I'd made during the night in coping with such a bad sweat and

that's maybe why my 8am level was so low. He also said that the next

morning the result might have been altogether different, that my

adrenals were a bit up and down.

He emphasised again and again how tests had their place but that

symptoms were more important. We talked about my bad heads and he

said that although many people he saw had trouble with their heads

when their thyroid was low, he had never seen anyone with such a bad

head as my own and since my thyoid now seemed normal he concluded

that my heads were due to something else and not thyroid. Maybe an

adrenal element is involved but then it could be plain old

vestibular migraines after all.

My own take on things is that I think I've had adrenal issues since

my late teens but my hysterectomy two years ago threw my body into

adrenal disarray, as it was after that that my thyroid went low and

my cortisol went sky high. Through various measures I've managed to

find a balance of sorts again, although I didn't realise that til

today, and need now to continue to strengthen my adrenals in order

to maintain thyroid health.

I must add that I seem to be pretty unusual in the way I react to

things and how my body works, so my experience I think isn't

typical. But I must say that the outcome of today's visit wasn't

what I expected at all!

x

PS my adrenals have a tough week coming up. We're moving house for

the second time in nine months! :0