New Doc recommending SRT3...not sure what to do

March 31, 2010

I had a doctor appointment on Tuesday. Went all the way from Norther VA to South

Bend Indiana to see this doc. He confirmed that I indeed do have Adrenal Fatigue

and RT3 dominance. He also confirmed that I have Vitamin D and B12 defficiency.

This was all stuff I already knew myself, but wanted to have a doc help with the

treatment. He also told me that I am low in magnesium and in estrogen, which I

did not realize.

Good news is that he treats AF with Hydrocortisone, which I was very pleased

with. Bad news is he insists on treating RT3 dominance with Slow Release T3.

Before I went to see the doc I had already started the T3 only treatment.

Because of the AF I was using Isocort so that I could tolerate the T3. It was

helping, but I'm hoping that the HC will work better. I had slowly over a couple

of months worked my way up from 10 mcg of T3 to 25 mcg of T3. I've been dosing

it at 10, 5, 5, 5 per day. Because of the trip to IN my temps have been quite

unstable over the last week, so am waiting for them to stabalize before

increasing the dose.

Anyway, he has told me to take 25 mg of HC a day, which I'm good with, but wants

me to take 7.5 mcg of SRT3 twice a day! That just doesn't make sense to me since

I'm already on 25 mcg a day. I feel like I will be going backwards and also feel

like the SRT3 will take longer to work. He feels like the T3 is just too much on

the system and causes temps to go all over the place and the body to have to

work too hard.

I don't know what to do. I finally found a doctor who knows how to treat AF, so

don't want to lose that, but I don't agree with his treatment for RT3 dominance.

Does anyone have any advise? I was going to point him to Nick's website with the

RT3 info. Are there any other good resources I can point him to?

Should I start his protocol and see how it goes? I'm just at a loss and would

love to get some advise on what to do.

Thanks,

Steph

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