Re: Re: combining cortef and armour

[Guest guest]

Liz a couple of the bets books I have read are Your Thyroid nad How to

Keep it Healthy by Dr Peatfield, and Safe Uses of Cortisol by Dr

Jefferies.The reason I think you need mroe cortisol is the high Free T3

compared to the T4. If you had enough cortisll in your body that would

be lower as when cortils is too low T3 cannot enter the cells so it sits

in the blood causing symptoms rather than helping you.

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In this vein, I've been on 30mg HC for 4 days and now I'm freezing~! My labs on

the 3rd were good. Could I be hypo now? And would it not be good to increase

Armour since my ferritin was 33 on the 3rd? Brrrrr.r.r.r.r.r.r Temps are back

to 96.7. Or should I back up 2.5mg on teh HC? Thanks for being here Val.

>>>The reason I think you need mroe cortisol is the high Free T3

compared to the T4. If you had enough cortisll in your body that would be lower

as when cortils is too low T3 cannot enter the cells so it sits in the blood

causing symptoms rather than helping you.<<<

[Guest guest]

I would try an Armoru increase, but if you have symptoms rather than

raise the HC I would jst drop the raise and stay there another week.

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[Guest guest]

I have not found anything that interferes with absorption of HC exceot

really bad digestion, so I would htink you could take it wiht iron and

be fine.

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[Guest guest]

It isn;t that you will be more hyop but that you will likely feel it

more. Simply because everything in your body has been down regulated to

xcompensate for the hypo and as you bring it back up to normal you feel

the hypo the most.

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[Guest guest]

This is how I think about it. When you are low on cortisol, your blood

results can show up normal because the T4 and T3 are sitting in your

bloodstream looking good. You aren't actually getting any use from them

though. Therefore you have hypoT symptoms along with low adrenal even though

your blood work shows normal. When you start taking HC the T3 in your blood

actually gets into the cells and you may have a surge of well being (or a

thyroid dump depending on levels). When the T3 is used up, your body still

isn't able to produce enough for your body even though you have more HC from

taking it. So your lab work will show up more accurately (with low FT3 and

FT4) if you have a problem with low thyroid. Therefore you are " more hypo " .

Plus some of the low cortisol symptoms may start to resolve and you will

focus on the low thyroid stuff. Sort of like the old story of the man saying

" I wish I could forget about the pain in my back, arm, whatever " . A friend

hits him on the toe with a hammer. He hops around and curses for awhile and

says " What did you do that for? " The friend says " You forgot about your

back, arm, whatever pain didn't you? " :-)

I'm not positive on all this stuff, but that is how I have it worked out in

my brain anyway.

Cherie

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you

learn.--C.S.

> Your analogy does make sense. I've been feeling so good on the HC

> though, so the idea of increasing the dose and feeling more hypo

> symptoms doens't sound good to me! But someone mentioned I may not

> actually feel more symptoms? Guess I just don't understand what

> people mean by " being more hypo " in this context.

>

> I also am not clear on how much to increase the HC, and what I should

> be looking for in way of symptoms or labs to know when I've got

> enough cortisol... (i'm not doing adrenal testing, just TSH, T3, T4)

>

> thanks,

> Liz

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