-What I'm doing for Adrenal Fatigue

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Well.....................

since December I'm taking hydrocortisone in small physiological doses. Given my overall situation and severity of adrenal fatigue with Hashi's thyroid I think it will be best in the long run. I can't take enough thyroid hormone to get my TSH low enough to stop the Hashi's antibody attacks without healthy adrenal function so that has become my priority.

Originally I was in an estrogen/progesterone/testosterone conversation and considering the WP but after much testing, reading (this group and others) and researching the bigger picture became clearer. I learned that adrenals are vital to all hormone function and you want to address those puppies before adding in other things.

I also take:

pregnenolone

B-12/Folic Acid sublingual

B-5 Panthotenic acid

D3

High Vit C (powder around 3500/day)

Estradiol cream (not for adrenals)

Iron (ferrous sulfate) for low ferritin levels (ferritin is the body's iron storage and low levels are indicated as a precursor to anemia.)

That's the adrenal portion........I also take other vits, minerals and digestive stuff, probiodics, enzymes.

I'm concentrating on getting whole healthy organic foods into my body and drinking reverse osmosis water to avoid flouride and chlorine ingestion.

Janet

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I pretty much do the same thing you are (except i don't have any

thyroid or hashi's issues).

i don't take prenenalone. but i take a lot of the B complex, a ton B5

(1500 mg), ton of C, and E mix trophohels (sp?). all my life i've

shown anemia and docs told me to take iron, so i did. (just like they

said, take Ortho Novum since you don't get a period). but when this

all first started 2 years ago, the first thing found was too much

iron in my tissues (but not in my blood)...hemochromatosis. so i

think my ferritin levels are fine. they were high before. so i don't

really address iron for this reason. but at some point i will

monitor it again. my doc also wants high D3 so i'm about to do that

too. i'm hoping the DHEA will help the adrenals along. i dont think

hydrocortisone or cortef is wrong. i fact, i did it too, because i

think i hit almost addisons. i couldn't get out of bed. I just don't

want to supplement cortef/cortisol now since i actually have cortisol

now (albeit low)... i just want to get them very healthy to do their

cortisol thing on their own. I suspect (or blindly hope, call it what

you will) my T issues will go away with either DHEA or healthy

adrenals (I am 39 so maybe not), but i'm certain i will eventually

need to take E. i would do it now but i want my adrenals in order

first.

Oh and I also do RO water. I have both a water softener (Hague

system) that takes the minerals out before it gets into the house and

the RO at our sink (to take out the funny taste and pottassium or

salt) for drinking and plants. Now some here may think the minerals

are necessary in the water for alkalizing, but with my past iron

storage in my tissues, i don't want any unnecssary iron from the

water (we have well water).

Its funny for the Hague system, you can use either salt or pottassium

to pull out the iron. we've used pottassium to start, then salt. I

wonder if i should continue salt since i suspect that i've always had

a slight pottassium:salt ratio issue (aldosterone)...(with too much

potassium in my system)... but i'm not going to over think this right

now. If i do, i'll go crazy.

I wish I read this group, like you did, before i did the WP. I was so

sick, i just wanted to trust someone, anyone, to help.

Thanks for sharing!

>

> Well.....................

>

> since December I'm taking hydrocortisone in small physiological

doses. Given my overall situation and severity of adrenal fatigue

with Hashi's thyroid I think it will be best in the long run. I

can't take enough thyroid hormone to get my TSH low enough to stop

the Hashi's antibody attacks without healthy adrenal function so that

has become my priority.

>

> Originally I was in an estrogen/progesterone/testosterone

conversation and considering the WP but after much testing, reading

(this group and others) and researching the bigger picture became

clearer. I learned that adrenals are vital to all hormone function

and you want to address those puppies before adding in other things.

>

> I also take:

>

> pregnenolone

>

> B-12/Folic Acid sublingual

>

> B-5 Panthotenic acid

>

> D3

>

> High Vit C (powder around 3500/day)

>

> Estradiol cream (not for adrenals)

>

> Iron (ferrous sulfate) for low ferritin levels (ferritin is the

body's iron storage and low levels are indicated as a precursor to

anemia.)

>

> That's the adrenal portion........I also take other vits, minerals

and digestive stuff, probiodics, enzymes.

>

> I'm concentrating on getting whole healthy organic foods into my

body and drinking reverse osmosis water to avoid flouride and

chlorine ingestion.

>

> Janet

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