Re: Starting fludrocrtisone/florinef

[Guest guest]

I've been on generic Florinef since the middle of November. Things

I've noticed:

Food seems to really taste good these days...I mean better than

usual.

I have A-fib rarely now, but I do get it sometimes. I did get to a

whole tab but found this was really too much for me (I was even

getting air hunger...how odd), and I backed down to 3/4, then to 1/2

tab, and I am finally doing quite well on 1/4 tab a day. I also

noticed that the rest of my missing hair is finally growing back,

almost 18 years after RAI - it made me totally bald and

Armour/BHRT/Iodoral brought more than half back. I hope it's

permanent, because if it is I am doing a happy dance. I'm kind of

holding my breath until I find out the return of my hair really " is "

permanent and not just a temporary side effect of taking generic

Florinef.

Oh yes, I've also been consistently loosing a wee bit of weight,

which is a good thing.

Val? Is the hair regrowth permanent?

Sam

(thyrodless since 1990)

[Guest guest]

Sam I would like to say so but it is a side of Florinef I have not heard

before, but THAT is one understudied hormone. I really think all the

effects of Aldosterone are not even begun to be known. so ???? If it

feels good, do it!

--

Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

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

[Guest guest]

That is wonderful Sam, about your hair!! There are so many gals who

are losing their hair from hypo. Maybe the florinif is the missing

piece of the puzzle.

Gale

>

> I've been on generic Florinef since the middle of November. Things

> I've noticed:

> Food seems to really taste good these days...I mean better than

> usual.

> I have A-fib rarely now, but I do get it sometimes. I did get to a

> whole tab but found this was really too much for me (I was even

> getting air hunger...how odd), and I backed down to 3/4, then to 1/2

> tab, and I am finally doing quite well on 1/4 tab a day. I also

> noticed that the rest of my missing hair is finally growing back,

> almost 18 years after RAI - it made me totally bald and

> Armour/BHRT/Iodoral brought more than half back. I hope it's

> permanent, because if it is I am doing a happy dance. I'm kind of

> holding my breath until I find out the return of my hair really " is "

> permanent and not just a temporary side effect of taking generic

> Florinef.

>

> Oh yes, I've also been consistently loosing a wee bit of weight,

> which is a good thing.

>

> Val? Is the hair regrowth permanent?

>

> Sam

> (thyrodless since 1990)

>

[Guest guest]

Well, I guess/hope if it's like other hormones maybe the regrowth is

permanent. I read the hair growth think online after google searching

it... I think I'll just keep my fingers crossed for a while.

Sam :-o

>

> Sam I would like to say so but it is a side of Florinef I have not

heard

> before, but THAT is one understudied hormone. I really think all the

> effects of Aldosterone are not even begun to be known. so ???? If it

> feels good, do it!

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Sam, I mentioned your aldosterone discovery on a different post in thread

39073...

MsSquarepants had questions so I told her I'd try to " find " you... we're all

interested in finding

that " missing link " to hair loss after otherwise " optimized " ...

Thank you so much... I hope that hair keeps growing.

[Guest guest]

Hi Sam, I mentioned your aldosterone discovery on a different post in thread

39073...

MsSquarepants had questions so I told her I'd try to " find " you... we're all

interested in finding

that " missing link " to hair loss after otherwise " optimized " ...

Thank you so much... I hope that hair keeps growing.

[Guest guest]

Sam spends a lot of time oh the yahoo group " hypothyroidism " . You

should post there if you have questions for her. She also has her own

group " thyroidless " .

Gale

>

> Hi Sam, I mentioned your aldosterone discovery on a different post

in thread 39073...

> MsSquarepants had questions so I told her I'd try to " find " you...

we're all interested in finding

> that " missing link " to hair loss after otherwise " optimized " ...

>

> Thank you so much... I hope that hair keeps growing.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sam doesn't hang around here much, but she runs the " thyroidless "

Yahoo group so you might find her there. My recollection is that she

found that her aldosterone was low so she went on florinef with Val's

recommended ramp-up dosing schedule for it which I believe is

something like 1/4 tab for a week, then 1/2 for a week and so on up to

the .1mg full dose. I'm pretty sure that Val would say to get your

aldosterone and maybe renin checked first.

>

> Hi Sam, I mentioned your aldosterone discovery on a different post

in thread 39073...

> MsSquarepants had questions so I told her I'd try to " find " you...

we're all interested in finding

> that " missing link " to hair loss after otherwise " optimized " ...

>

> Thank you so much... I hope that hair keeps growing.

>

>

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