Re: Help for 13year old daughter - delayed puberty

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Thank you for this and your advice ties in with Dr Loretta - especially finding

out the estogen/progesterone ratios. She wasn't taking the progesterone when

this test was done, she started taking it afterwards and it certainly makes a

big difference. Maybe, it is helping to balance high estrogen.

I will find the Natural Thyroid Group for Europe and see if they know of a good

Dr. who can help balance her hormones.

I am glad that you think that it is important to try and get this sorted for her

- the mainstream Drs so far have been extremely unhelpful.

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> > > > Dear All, this is my first post here, although I have been a member

for several months reading all the posts. I am in the UK. I personallly am on

50mg of iodine with all the companion nutrients. I am posting about my daughter

who will be 13 in 4 weeks. She is showing very few signs of going into puberty.

I have been trying to get to the bottom of her endocrine issues. Here are some

recent test results:

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> > > > Endocrinology profile (24hr Urine)

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> > > > Cortisol 49 (58-248) **

> > > > Aldosterone 38.3 (16.6-69.3)

> > > > Testosterone 5.4 (0.2-0.4) **

> > > > 16-OH Estrone 3.8 (1.7-5.8)

> > > > 17-OH Progesterone 3.0 (0.7-1.4) **

> > > > Estriol 46.7 (1.1-9.7) **

> > > > Oestradiol 16.5 (8.8-237.5)

> > > > DHEA 0.1 <=2.8

> > > > 17-OH Steroid 14.1 (10.2-23.6)

> > > > 17-keto Steroid total 7.7 (9.9-30.6) **

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> > > > A saliva cortisol test results were:

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> > > > sample 1 6.9 (12-22)

> > > > sample 2 0.9 (5.0-9.0)

> > > > sample 3 0.1 (3.0-7.0)

> > > > sample 4 0.1 (1.0-3.0)

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> > > > TSH was 2.28 (0.27-4.2)

> > > > T3 (6.7 (3.5-7.7)

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> > > > Thyroid antibodies are low.

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> > > > She has had a Short Synacthen Test and I have been told that it was

satisfactory - I have asked for the actual results.

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> > > > She is taking 50mg of Iodoral a day together with all of the companion

nutrients, 1 grain of Nature-throid and HC cream twice a day, she has also been

having natural progesterone cream which vastly improved her mood overnight,

which is a surprise given that she is high in progesterone. She says that she

has more energy when taking the iodine - at first her thyroid swelled up and she

found it difficult to swallow, but, that soon passed.

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> > > > She feels absolutely awful and her behaviour is very difficult

throughout the day and she finds it very hard to get up in teh morning, at night

when she goes to bed she is always very frightened. She also experiences severe

headaches and photosensitivity, which the HC cream seems to reduce.

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> > > > We are seeing an opthalmologist at the end of May as out optician

found an irregularity with her left optic nerve - possible papillodema.

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> > > > Other than that the drs tell me there is nothing wrong.

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> > > > Has anyone any advice as to what else I can do to help her - should I

increase the iodine or leave it at 50mg?

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> > > > Many thanks for reading this and for any help.

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