Q for on temps and endo

[Guest guest]

Hi and group,

Wife still struggling after 5 years of pain caused, at least in part, by Hashi's

and adrenal insufficiency. Also has gut issues, which rule out use of

painkillers and make supplementation difficult.

Has exhausted search for a good endo or GP here in Australia, after consulting

several in different cities.

Has read 's book and notes similarities in symptoms, especially weight loss.

Is on Prednisolone 8-10 mg/day, T3 Cytomel 75 mcg, T3/T4 compounding 60 mg.

BP consistently low - around 105/60, sometimes lower standing than sitting.

Has tried upping T3 dose but it seems to be pooling rather than assimilated in

cells. RT3 successfully reduced when on T3 alone, but she seems happier on some

T4 as well as the T3. Sublingual temperature stays obstinately low, between

36.2 and 36.7 Celsius, occasionally rising above 37 around midday. There is no

apparent correlation between the T3 dose and her temperature.

Questions are:

1. Can you be sure that body temperature is a good indicator of thyroid

function? The late Dr C Lowe said it isn't, but she does feel better when

her temperature is higher.

2. Can tell us the name of his endo in UK? Wife prepared to make the trip

if it will lead to relief of her upper body pain.

Regards,

[Guest guest]

, I have forwarded your message to me to the forum, in the

hope that others might be able to help you who have been down this road.

Luv - Sheila

took a dose of Lufenuron about six weeks ago to kill any

lingering candida. Her blood tests came back consistently negative prior to

that, but a delayed result of a saliva test done by Genova while we were in UK

last year came back positive.

I think we are faced with two different issues here. For years

’s been trying to pinpoint the origin of chest pains, and when she

was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s we thought we had found it. Aside from the

evident adrenal exhaustion which needed cortisone assistance, we don’t

have any evidence that the thyroid medication has helped. I think we went down

the wrong path when she went on to T3 to reduce her RT3 – that is now

negligible but hasn’t alleviated the pains at all.

We are no back-tracking to the levels of medication that she was

on late last year, when she felt the least pain, and we shall keep looking for

other causes. The difficulty is that she has become increasingly intolerant of

new food types and supplements, so we need to treat the gut with the utmost

care. As I said earlier, we think the ongoing use of prednisone (about 5 years

now) has affected the gut, as well as giving her osteopenia.

If you have any info on non-steroidal alternatives to prednisone

I’d be glad to hear them. We prefer to go the natural route but

appreciate that natural products take longer to have an effect, as well as

being less standardised in their potency. But ’s gut problems

started well before she began using prednisone, so we are not going to solve

everything by just cutting back on that.

Regards,

Is it possible the gut problems are because she might be

suffering with Candida Albicans. Check out the attached document .

Check out also the information we have in the FILES section of

our forum thyroid treatment/files/

and open the CANDIDA FOLDER where you will see all the information required.

There is also a Candida Questionnaire to do and your wife might get a better

idea of whether this might be a problem. She can also get tested to see if she

has candida antibodies by Genova Diagnostics (check out the FOLDER

entitled 'Discounts on Tests and Supplements'.

may, of course, have a completely different cause of her

gut symptoms that I know nothing about.

Luv - Sheila