rT3, PCOS, insulin resistance.

[Guest guest]

I have been posting recently about PCOS and insulin resistance... because I

think I am starting to get a clearer picture of my problems: a complet hormonal

mess!

In any case I wanted to ask: I am now at the end of my first month with T3 only

(because of reverse T3) and I am following a low carb diet to try to improve my

other conditions. However I think I may need further treatment (I have been

reading and I see that insulin resistance is very much related with PCOS and

that both are treated successfully with metformin) and I wonder:

I have read in the other groups that before addressing invalances in sexual

hormones is better to " fix " the thyroid, but I wonder whether my insulin

resistance, etc is also afecting my thyroid, like causing me to have reverse T3.

Any thoughts about it?

[Guest guest]

What I have found is hypo causes insulin resistance. But there are MANY

other hormone imbalances that cause IR as well an they must ALL be

treated ot lower it. Since my Diabetes diagnosis, I have learned that

good estrogen levels are of UTMOST importance as are good T3 levels.

Since being on insulin I have lowered my insulin by 2/3rds what I needed

a year ago by several things. First was going back on estrogen and I use

Premarin adn get better IR lowering effects from it than bioidentical

eztradiol cream. I also use testosterone cream and this helped a little

but not nearly as much as estrogen did. The Potassium did a noajor

reduction FOR ME but this may be unique to my own physiology as I have

undetectable IGF-1 which also has alot to do with IR and low potassium

can cause low IGF-1,. But if your IGF-1 is low then an RBC potassium

test shoudl be done as well as optimizing the other hormones. High

cortils causes IR as well so make certain your adrneal support is not

part of the problem.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Val,

I may be wrong, but I believe my IR has a high genetic component because my

mother has it and also his father (who ended up with type 2 diabetes). I think

my estrogen, testosterone and IGF-1 all tend to be high (there is some

variations from test to test which I still don't underatnd, though), which I

understand are all signs of PCOS. I have to continue learning!

From the information in your message, I guess then it is better to focus on

fixing the thyroid first and see if that helps with the other imbalances...

[Guest guest]

Oh I would treat the IR with thyroid. Metformin is a wonder srug IF you

tolerate it and will prevent IR from going to full blown Diabetes.

Though correcting the hormone cxauses is what oyu need to be doing,

controlling the IR is VITL to stop progressiion into Diabetes which si

NOT reversible.

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Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypoPets/