Re: Sleep disturbances, adrenals and hypoglycemia

[Guest guest]

" jasrich " wrote:

>I haven't had one of those " attacks " in months and I don't lie there

sweating, anxious, with stomach hurting like I used to, but I have a

hard time getting back to sleep and I get hungry enough that I have

to get up to eat which indicates to me that low cortisol/hypogly is

still my problem.

This is what DH and others here seem to describe; just wake up and

can't get back to sleep.

> try chromium before bed to

> help regulate blood sugar and agreed that I should take as much mag

as I can tolerate (to bowel tolerance).

DH takes chromium with breakfast and dinner and takes mag 4x/day.

>if your blood T3 and T4 is the close to mine is

> pretty low still so don't you want to keep working on increasing

your dose of A? My TSH has come way down BTW - from 13 to 2.83 since

October.

Well that's the curious thing. While our blood T3/T4 values are

nearly the same, the effect is different. My temps vary from 98 -

98.8, which I recently found is normal for a woman with a cycle. So

my temps say I'm optimal. My TSH at 1.75 grain was .12 I'll have to

wait till the end of February for my saliva test because of my cycle,

and to give my new dose of 2 grains time to stabilize. I'm assuming

my TSH will then be .0x. How low do we want TSH? .0x or .00x?

So I guess what I'm wondering is, can blood T3/T4 be low, yet optimal

in saliva? It's possible the saliva comes back on the low side too,

in which case, I'll keep trying to increase the Armour. But right

now, I'd be afraid to push any higher. Wouldn't want to create a RT3

problem, which I've seen here, when people blindly increase without

supporting labs.

Barb

[Guest guest]

But do we even care as much about TSH as we do T3 and T4 levels as

long as we are going by labs as opposed to dosing more by symptoms? If

you're feeling good on 2 grains then maybe you should hold there, but

if your labs are close to mine we're WAY below optimal as far as

thyroid hormone blood levels if we're shooting for top of the range

for T3 and 2/3 for T/4.

I'm trying the chromium and my new mag/glycinate tnite. Hopefully

I'll sleep like a baby but kind of doubting it.

I convinced my wife to do the saliva testing and we've got the kits.

What are the rules again for when to time it during one's cycle?

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle with day 1 being the first day of her period.

Cheri

-----Original Message-----

But do we even care as much about TSH as we do T3 and T4 levels as

long as we are going by labs as opposed to dosing more by symptoms? If

you're feeling good on 2 grains then maybe you should hold there, but

if your labs are close to mine we're WAY below optimal as far as

thyroid hormone blood levels if we're shooting for top of the range

for T3 and 2/3 for T/4.

I'm trying the chromium and my new mag/glycinate tnite. Hopefully

I'll sleep like a baby but kind of doubting it.

I convinced my wife to do the saliva testing and we've got the kits.

What are the rules again for when to time it during one's cycle?

Thanks,

.

[Guest guest]

The following only applies if she's got roughly a 28-day cycle. If

longer (mine were sometimes 5-7 weeks apart), then she'd want to do it

5-7 days after ovulating. She would know she was ovulating by her

cervical mucus, which turns into sticky snot only for a few days a

month.

Barb

" MsSquarepants " wrote:

>

> Days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle with day 1 being the first day of her

period.

>

> Cheri

> I convinced my wife to do the saliva testing and we've got the kits.

> What are the rules again for when to time it during one's cycle?

>

> Thanks,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Cheri.

>

> Days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle with day 1 being the first day of her

period.

>

> Cheri

[Guest guest]

Try chromium picolinate with it. This is the only thing that has

helped my hypoglycemia thingy...(hypothyroid here too)

-- In NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS , sol

wrote:

>

> I only wish it worked like that for me. I burn through a double whey

> shake in an hour or less, then go into hypoglycemia. And no, not a lot

> of sugar in it either, undenatured whey. So it must be the natural milk

> sugars in it that cause this for me. I begin to think it is the lack of

> fat in whey, even though I make my shake with half and half.

> sol

>

> KC wrote:

> > [whey] it is suppose to help level out blood sugars and stop you

> > from feeling hungry for long periods since it take so much longer to

> > burn..he doesn't get hungry during the night anymore.

> >

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