crashing hard--please help

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I posted this on the adrenals list just now--am posting it here as well because of the RT3 issue/T3 meds.

I had 3 iron IV's in the past week that were intended to help me take T3 meds. Because the unfortunate result was insomnia and hyper symptoms, Val advised me to stop T3 until adrenals were in better shape, and to dose HC at 7.5-5-5-2.5 every 4 hours. I did that yesterday and finally slept through the night last night. I was very encouraged, but in the past couple of hours I've felt increasingly weird. I feel very weak, my knees are wobbling, exhausted in spite of no activity, a bit short of breath, like I barely have the energy to walk from one room to another. Could this be from stopping T3 after being on it for two months? Do I need more than 20 mg/day of HC? I just started that dose yesterday; previously it was 10 mg. (I know the HC question is for the adrenals list).

Current pulse is 65, bp is 153/65, temp is 98.3. I'm reposting labs for convenience in answering my question. Thanks so much for any help.

Peggy

The original saliva labs, before I started either HC or SR T3:cortisol, saliva:5.6 at 6:00 a.m. optimal range 7:00 a.m.: 7.0-10 ng/ml 2.1 at 11:00 a.m. optimal range noon: 3.0-6.0 ng/ml2.6 at 5:00 p.m. optimal range 5:00 p.m.: 2.0-4.0 ng/ml1.0 at 10:00 p.m. optimal range 10:00 p.m.: 1.5 ng/mlLabs from March 3, after a month on SR T3 at 30 mcg/day, oral iron, HC at 10 mg/day. This is before I had the iron IV's last week; my RT3 ratio has risen from 4.8 to 15.6:T3, free serum 2.7 (2.0-3.5) pg/mLRT3 173 (90-350) pg/mLT4, free 0.97 (.89-1.76) ng/dLferritin, serum 25.7 (11.1-264.0) ng/mL