Re: My body is doing weird things.

[Guest guest]

I thought that was LOW cortisol!?!??!!?!? I would think more HC is better than too little HC, to get T3 into the cells.Can high cortisol prevent t3 only from being used properly?  

[Guest guest]

Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

Liz W

[Guest guest]

Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

Liz W

[Guest guest]

I suppose a little high is better than a little low for utilizing T3. Problem

is, high and low symptoms are a lot alike so it's easy to go too high thinking

it's too low. I have been on some type of cortisol(HC, medrol, dex) for 2

years. I've been Dx with hypopituitary and assumed I would need this stuff

forever. In November, I started to get anxiety, swollen, red, itchy, extreme

fatigue, constant tremor, skin felt like it was burning, etc. I think I had high

cortisol for months and assumed low cortisol. Stress dosing didn't help, if

anything made it worse. Lowering each dose of HC hasn't seemed to be a problem.

My worst low cortisol symptom was anxiety and panic(wired and tired) for years

at bedtime and couldn't sleep to save my life, then I would wake feeling awful

and had to get up and take care of 3 kids. I have felt less brain fogged and

less spacey since decreasing. I still feel hypo and need more t3, just can't

lower HC and up t3 at the same time. But, like I said earlier, florinef is a

steroid too and contains up to 10mg cortisol per pill.

T3_T3 , " lizdoubleu " wrote:

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> Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

> Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

> Liz W

>

[Guest guest]

I suppose a little high is better than a little low for utilizing T3. Problem

is, high and low symptoms are a lot alike so it's easy to go too high thinking

it's too low. I have been on some type of cortisol(HC, medrol, dex) for 2

years. I've been Dx with hypopituitary and assumed I would need this stuff

forever. In November, I started to get anxiety, swollen, red, itchy, extreme

fatigue, constant tremor, skin felt like it was burning, etc. I think I had high

cortisol for months and assumed low cortisol. Stress dosing didn't help, if

anything made it worse. Lowering each dose of HC hasn't seemed to be a problem.

My worst low cortisol symptom was anxiety and panic(wired and tired) for years

at bedtime and couldn't sleep to save my life, then I would wake feeling awful

and had to get up and take care of 3 kids. I have felt less brain fogged and

less spacey since decreasing. I still feel hypo and need more t3, just can't

lower HC and up t3 at the same time. But, like I said earlier, florinef is a

steroid too and contains up to 10mg cortisol per pill.

T3_T3 , " lizdoubleu " wrote:

>

> Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

> Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

> Liz W

>

[Guest guest]

I suppose a little high is better than a little low for utilizing T3. Problem

is, high and low symptoms are a lot alike so it's easy to go too high thinking

it's too low. I have been on some type of cortisol(HC, medrol, dex) for 2

years. I've been Dx with hypopituitary and assumed I would need this stuff

forever. In November, I started to get anxiety, swollen, red, itchy, extreme

fatigue, constant tremor, skin felt like it was burning, etc. I think I had high

cortisol for months and assumed low cortisol. Stress dosing didn't help, if

anything made it worse. Lowering each dose of HC hasn't seemed to be a problem.

My worst low cortisol symptom was anxiety and panic(wired and tired) for years

at bedtime and couldn't sleep to save my life, then I would wake feeling awful

and had to get up and take care of 3 kids. I have felt less brain fogged and

less spacey since decreasing. I still feel hypo and need more t3, just can't

lower HC and up t3 at the same time. But, like I said earlier, florinef is a

steroid too and contains up to 10mg cortisol per pill.

T3_T3 , " lizdoubleu " wrote:

>

> Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

> Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

> Liz W

>

[Guest guest]

Oh, I didn't mean high cortisol was better than low. I was just curious if you

actually felt like it was helping to lower the HC, which it sounds like it is. I

wonder if at some point on HC therapy the body just has a switch that flips and

decides it has enough cortisol or something. I might be in a similar situation

to yours, because I am starting to have high cort symptoms, but I am still hypo.

I hope I can lower the HC, because I am starting to gain weight, etc.

Are your temps stable?

Liz

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> > Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

> > Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

> > Liz W

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I've been lowering since November and almost off HC, still on florinef. I still feel hypo, I thought I would tough it out, get unhypo, and then reduce HC but high cortisol makes you feel crappy so not a good idea. One of the reasons why I thought my cortisol was still too low was because temps always dropped from my morning temp. I used to have temps in the 96's all the time. I have had a temp as low as 93 and turned blue. My temps have been 94 at the doctor's office, who wouldn't help me BTW. Right now I am pretty stable at 98.2 but still feel as hypo as 96's--but again maybe it's the high cortisol feeling and that will resolve. I still need more t3 though. Taking temps has driven me crazy! There are too many things that can affect temps. However, when I cleared Rt3, my temps were 99-100 all during the

day for a few days. Subject: Re: My body is doing weird things.To: RT3_T3 Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 10:15 AM

Oh, I didn't mean high cortisol was better than low. I was just curious if you actually felt like it was helping to lower the HC, which it sounds like it is. I wonder if at some point on HC therapy the body just has a switch that flips and decides it has enough cortisol or something. I might be in a similar situation to yours, because I am starting to have high cort symptoms, but I am still hypo. I hope I can lower the HC, because I am starting to gain weight, etc.

Are your temps stable?

Liz

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> > Do you feel better when you go down on the HC, aside from being hypo?

> > Or do you get low cortisol symptoms?

> > Liz W

> >

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