Happy Birthday! and other stuff

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YES, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...SAM!

Hope your chocolate cake is divine! I wish I was visiting again.

The Banana Leaf Restaurant serves Maylasian food and it was the best

meal of my trip. I came home and found Sambal and recipes to cook up

some of those amazing dishes. -

Gael,

Where are you in Texas?? I am outside of the Austin area. Hope you

continue to recover quickly.

I did want to report back that a while ago I had complained about my

cycle getting off when I was always a 28 day gal. I was taking

Rhodiola, an adaptogenic herb for two months prior. I got off it and

sure enough my cycles went right back to 28 days. I think the herb

did affect my adrenals for sure and then that messed everything all

up.

I am still playing around with my temps and just last week started on

some hydrocortisone cream, around 2.5 mg mid morning. I don't think

I have ever really felt something so completely give me energy. A

couple of times I added another dose in the late afternoon if I felt

a lag and needed to keep going for some reason. It was great. Now

the only thing negative is that I have noticed the last few nights, I

am not sleeping soundly and have awakened in the night a few times

which is very unusual for me. Don't know if it is the cream messing

with my cortisol or my college daughters who have been home and kept

me up later than usual and helped to screw up my sleep schedule.

Going to bed at 11 pm is late for me. I am usually 10 or so.

I know I need to order the cortisol test for myself and hubby. Do I

have to stop the cream for some time before testing? I also got some

IsoCort but have not taken it.

Sonii

-- In rhythmicliving , k9gang@... wrote:

>

> Thank you. <grinning>

> I am going to drive thru new snow (arg) and

> get to Vancouver Canada today, because there's

> a chocolate cake waiting for me there.

>

> Later

>

> Sam :-D

>

> =====

> > Have a wonderful Birthday Sam!!!

> >

> > Gale

> >

> >

> > k9gang@... wrote: PRION content,

> > " big spirts " of T3, and not bioidentical, eh? Oh brother.

> > I have heard so many bizarre " stories " about Armour that I could

fill a

> > book with more pages than War and Peace. Armour is simply

desiccated

> > porcine thyroids. I like to call it a thyroid gland in a pill -

that's

> > really all it is. I can't believe the horror on some doc's faces

when

> > pateints say " I want to take Armour Thyroid " . It's almost like

they mess

> > their pants and have seizures over it. You shold see what they

do when I

> > tell them I'm on 11+ grains (660mg) - it's like their heads spin

around

> > and then explode.

> >

> > You have TSI abs? That's an iodine deficiency thing.

> >

> > Sam

> > (I am 56 today and I'm going to go party like a wild woman)

> >

> > =====

> > > Hey Sam:

> > > Yes, I do know..That is the FIRST thing she did..take me off

Armour

> > > and put me on Synthroid and SR T3. She doesn't like Armour

because

> > > of the prion contamination, big " spurts " of T3, and she feels

that

> > > pts eventually develop either higher Ab counts or Ab's against

the

> > > hormone itself (this is something that is in research mode). I

> > > don't think that this is the case for me. Armour does

something for

> > > me that nothing else does (maybe due to the T1, T2 and

calcitonin).

> > > One of the compounding pharmacies here doesn't like Armour

either

> > > and compares it to Premarin saying it is not bioidentical.

There

> > > are pharmacies that are compounding SR T4 AND T3 and claiming

that

> > > they are " bioidentical " . What I'd love to see is a compounded

> > > Armour-like med that included it all.

> > > I told Vliet that until we got the why's and wherefore's around

> > > excess androgen secretion and TSI Ab increase figured out that

I

> > > needed the Armour, it's the only thing that is keeping the

> > > depression at bay.

> > > Avi

> > >

> > >

> > >>

> > >> You do know Vliet uses synthroid instead of disiccated

thyroid,

> > > right?

> > >> One of the gals in my thyroidless group was quite adamant

about not

> > >> continuing to be her patient for that very reason.

> > >>

> > >> Bioidentical sex hormones but not bioidentical thyroid

hormones.

> > > That

> > >> bothers me.

> > >>

> > >> Sam

> > >> (thyroidless, ovaryless, uterusless)

> > >>

> > >> =====

> > >> > I saw Vliet. I loved her books found that most of what she

said

> > >> > made sense and since I was a " special " case, pulled my money

> > >> > together and went out to see her. Anyone following this

board

> > > will

> > >> > have a rudimentary understanding of my issues

> > > (Graves/Hashimoto's,

> > >> > elevated androgens, etc.). I am really no better off and

have

> > >> > decided to pursue other avenues of healing for right now.

Will

> > > be

> > >> > glad to go into detail through PM with anybody interested.

> > >> > Avi

> > >> >

> > >

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