Re: Re: discouraged and whining

[Guest guest]

I have been dealing with that " sleek " look -- you know... A bald head is

called a Chrome Dome and my legs? Well, they are completely hairless!

I probably should be taking some female hormones, but I hate what they do

to me, so I will deal with " sleek " ... Just so long as that sleek

appearance does not turn to Chrome Dome! LOL!

Dianne

At 08:53 AM 1/14/04 -0600, you wrote:

>New fashion statement...for those of us that had hormones so out of whack

>that we lost body hair... when we regain health to the point that it

>returns... our leg hair becomes a symbol of accomplishment, of

>achievement!

>

>*wink*

>

>French braids would be nice!

[Guest guest]

I have been dealing with that " sleek " look -- you know... A bald head is

called a Chrome Dome and my legs? Well, they are completely hairless!

I probably should be taking some female hormones, but I hate what they do

to me, so I will deal with " sleek " ... Just so long as that sleek

appearance does not turn to Chrome Dome! LOL!

Dianne

At 08:53 AM 1/14/04 -0600, you wrote:

>New fashion statement...for those of us that had hormones so out of whack

>that we lost body hair... when we regain health to the point that it

>returns... our leg hair becomes a symbol of accomplishment, of

>achievement!

>

>*wink*

>

>French braids would be nice!

[Guest guest]

Dianne,

I got my leg hair back after starting DHEA. It is the precursor to the

sex hormones. The body takes from the DHEA what it needs to make the sex

hormones.

My body hair is back, my skin is softening and my head hair is growing

back in the spots that it was thinning and is shinier. I attribute that

to the DHEA mostly and also to the better thyroid ....

just a thought....

Topper ()

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:08:47 -0700 Dianne writes:

> I have been dealing with that " sleek " look -- you know... A bald

> head is

> called a Chrome Dome and my legs? Well, they are completely

> hairless!

>

> I probably should be taking some female hormones, but I hate what

> they do

> to me, so I will deal with " sleek " ... Just so long as that sleek

> appearance does not turn to Chrome Dome! LOL!

>

> Dianne

[Guest guest]

Dianne,

I got my leg hair back after starting DHEA. It is the precursor to the

sex hormones. The body takes from the DHEA what it needs to make the sex

hormones.

My body hair is back, my skin is softening and my head hair is growing

back in the spots that it was thinning and is shinier. I attribute that

to the DHEA mostly and also to the better thyroid ....

just a thought....

Topper ()

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:08:47 -0700 Dianne writes:

> I have been dealing with that " sleek " look -- you know... A bald

> head is

> called a Chrome Dome and my legs? Well, they are completely

> hairless!

>

> I probably should be taking some female hormones, but I hate what

> they do

> to me, so I will deal with " sleek " ... Just so long as that sleek

> appearance does not turn to Chrome Dome! LOL!

>

> Dianne

[Guest guest]

Thanks I will.

Deborah

Re: Re: discouraged and whining

It depends a lot on the individual.. but whether you feel the effects

in

days or weeks.. if you are taking too much too soon and then don't

feel

the effects of it for several more weeks... the excessive T4 is still

in

your tissues.... the more you have stored up the longer it takes to be

used up... and the only way to use it up is through your body's

conversion... After my RAI it took a full six months to get all the T4

out of my system... that's a long time to still feel like crap and

still

be in fear of dropping over dead from a heart attack... there is

nothing

that can be done for excessive T4 in the tissues... absolutely

nothing...

you just have to ride it out until your body uses it up... that is

why, I

believe, some docs may be so chicken about increasing doses and

dropping

TSH too low.. they don't understand how it all really works.. they

only

fear a patient dropping over dead from an over dose that occurred over

weeks or months.

It's just a common sense thing. You have to learn to observe and

listen

to your body... Read, study, research, ask questions here.. so that

you

understand what you are seeing in your body, and how your moods or

attitudes change... if you see something that is a bit odd, unusual or

just plan don't understand.. tell us about it.. more than 300 folks in

this group alone... and this isn't the only group.. many of us will

ask

on our groups or other groups that we are also members of to find an

answer.....

There is no reason to feel that you are all alone... there is an awful

lot of accumulated experience and research when you pool us all

together.. even someone that has just joined has experienced things...

and may match up with a question that you have posed... Now we have

two

of your to work with to find out what the commonality is to figure out

what is going on... we're our own lab rats and research scientists...

lets take advantage of that to learn how to care for ourselves and get

our lives back!!!! The docs sure don't seem to give a shit how we

feel....

... oh my... I do have an attitude today... maybe I should stay off

line

for today????

Topper ()

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:51:44 -0500 " VITO LABELLARTE "

writes:

> I guess my thoughts are this, she is already on a T4 med, her body

is

> used to the T4. It is the T3 that she is going to have to watch for

> symptoms of. Am I remembering wrong isn't she switching from

> Synthroid to Armour? If not then I am wrong.

> From my personal experience I had absolutely no problems increasing

> 60 each week. I didn't think that 30 every 2 weeks was aggressive.

>

> Patti