Please Help me with Adrenal/Thyroid Problems...Very Long

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I am a 38 year old female who started on Armour Thyroid one year ago

almost to the date, I was started at 1/2 a grain and am now on 1 1/2

grains a day. For about the last month I have had Little to NO energy

at all, I feel competely wiped out and drained, I feel tired all the

time but can't sleep, even at night with a dose of remeron, I still

wake up many times. Its fustrating to sleep for 12 hours and get up

take a shower and feel so drained that all I want to do is lay back down.

My Anxiety feels as though it is out of control too, and I am finding

myself taking my ativan 1/2mg twice a day lately. I am having high

pulse rates that range from 92-105 and at the doctor on thursday my

blood pressure was even high at 132/95.

I have always had some sort of hypoglycemia episodes, all my life if I

would go to long without eating I would get really shaky and have to

eat something to feel better. But the past month and a half I have

had this so much that the doctor gave me a glucose meter to start

taking my readings, they have dipped all the way down to 58, with a

huge majority in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Now I know 80's are normal

but I can feel symptoms badly even in the 80's and even though I hurry

up and eat something high in carbs, it just drops back down shortly

after again. And doctors don't know what it is thats causing it only

to say that its not my hypothyroid.

I ended up going to the ER last wednesday because I just couldn't take

the feelings anymore, along with chest pressure...after lots of blood

work and ct scan of my chest for blood clots and x-rays...It only came

back that my TSH came back at 4.95, with the range ending at 5.0, so

they considered this a normal TSH.

My TSH on October 22nd came back at 1.90...

The one Before that was taken 7/17/07 and was...10.90

My Endo doc only does TSH tests and I am only with him because I get

the Armour Thyroid, which no other doc will agree to give me even if I

am already taking it, and its the only thyroid med that has helped up

until now, cause I don't understand why its bouncing back and forth.

Now I did order the saliva tests from Diagnos-tech last april and

those test results are below...BUT AGAIN MY DOCS HERE IN MINNESOTA

DON'T BELIEVE IN THESE TESTS (SALIVA).

TSH 72 normal 26-85

FT4 0.37 normal 0.17-0.42

FT3 0.62 normal 0.28-1.10

TPO Positive

Estradiol 20 normal

Progesterone 243 normal

Free Testosterone 31 elevated

Cortisol

Morning 2 depressed

noon 9 normal

5pm 15 elevated

midnight elevated

Cortisol Burden 37 with norms between 23-42

DHEA 7 normal

Now I did also have a 24HR Cortisol Urine Test and that came back as

with the same Cortisol Burden of 37, so the endo said that was fine

and nothing to worry about, ya right.

Symptoms are as follows...

Extreme fatigue and weekness

No Appetite at all

Nausea....Preg test done and negative so not that

Body aches and hurts all over

Dizziness, mostly upon standing and walking

Pain on left and right side by kidney areas- but test came back

negative for any type of infection

Swinging between constipation and diarehea

Feeling very anxiety prone, can't handle any type of stress, inside

nervous feeling and shakiness

On the way out of the ER on Wednesday the doc. said go to your regular

doc and ask them to check your adrenals that sit on top of your

kidneys...which on Thursday I did go and ask my regular doc who

basically kicked us out, she started that thats all on endo not her.

God how I wish that er doc would of done some kind of test right there.

And just alittle history cause I know stress plays into how we

feel...Since Thanksgiving I have had one stressful situation after

another non stop...Only the past week things have settled down as I am

putting everything on my fiancee to do, but I do even if the phone

rings I get startled so badly that it takes me a half an hour to

recover from that...Sounds strange huh.

Also My time of the month has always been where I get diarhea right

before and then once it starts I goes away, but I got my last period

on New Years Eve and it was just so light, but I was extremely ill

through the whole thing until friday. Now I found this strange as I

usually have heavy periods and am usually only ill the first 2 days of it.

Any and all help and advice is greatly appreciated as I do travel from

minnesota to wisconsin tuesday am to see the endo for all of this, but

I really admire all the support and advice here and imformation.

Thank You

Donna