adrenal results - should I use hc?

February 11, 2012

Hi all

I posted my adrenal results in another thread a few days ago, but that was a

lengthy and very helpful discussion with about t3, so I wanted to post them

again separately for advice on the way forward with my adrenals.

For 3 years now, I've had problems tolerating any type of thyroid meds and I've

tried them all. At anything other than a tiny dose, I get hyper type symptoms,

particularly racing pulse and anxiety. I seem to convert from t4 to t3 ok, but

then the t3 pools in my blood causing these symptoms. I've various issues going

on, but I belive low iron (which I am addressing) and low cortisol/ low blood

sugar to be the main contributort factors. My worse time for these symptoms is

in the early hours of the morning, when cortisol is at its lowest naturally, so

I reckon mine must be really low then.

I'm now on t3 and I want to stick with that as it brings me more relief than any

other thyroid med of my hypo symptoms, though I can only tolerate 5mc a day.

This isn't enough to make a difference to my low cortisol using the circadian

method, I don't think.

I've been taking 5 NAXs, vit c etc for 9 months, and my results have actually

got marignally worse.

They are as follows:

Cortisol 1: 18.9 (12-22)

Cortisol 2: 3.7 (5-9)

Cortisol 3: 3.0 (3-7)

Cortisol 4: 0.5 (1.0-3.0)

DHEA 1: 0.30 (0.40-1.47)

DHEA 2: 0.22 (as above)

They've all gone down slightly, except for the first cortisol reading which has

gone up slightly.

Do you think I should now self-treat with hc (and or dhea) and how do I go about

it? How would I know what levels to start at?

I should add that my endo did the synacthen test which I 'passed' and I don't

have adrenal antibodies. Before doing the test, he tried me on cortisol for a

couple of days. I think it was 10mg. I felt loads more energetic the first day

but really, really depressed the second day, so the trial was stopped. Why would

I have reacted like that?

Many thanks

Susie

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