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LOL omg Topper I have had acid reflux for years and yes I took it right out of the bottle I just took a swallow or a swig not a hit here we go again we are street druggies a hit and a swig, We sound awful. chugging don't you do that to a beer in collage contests.LMBO I love it and I love you topper just had to bust your chops...Tinatopper2@... wrote: Are you still chugging the Maalox?? If so, when do you take your first 'hit' generally after your thyroid dose?? (no laughing on my use of the term 'hit'.... anyone that has ever lived with guts that were trying to eat you from the inside out knows exactly what I mean) Have you had your iron levels checked??? Ferritin?? It might not be a

bad idea to add iron in... many of us are anemic... if you take the thyroid in the morning and the iron at night it won't interfere... I was recently talking to someone that said calcium supplements give her the runs.... I wonder...... So the next labs are about weeks away... you might hold off on adding iron and/or reducing calcium until after labs.... Sucks to have to wait for a month.. but you'll get a more accurate reading.... then you can see if anything needs adjusting. Couple of simple tests for adrenal fatigue... grab a mirror and a flashlight.... shine the flashlight from the side of your face across your eye(do NOT shine the light into your eye, do it from the side, across) while watching the pupil in the mirror.. if it contracts and holds... you're still doing okay.... if it contracts but can't hold and starts to zip back and forth from big to small all

twitchy like... adrenal fatigue.... The other is spot checking your temp during the day... if your temp goes up a bit during the day and then drops off in the evening as you are nearing bed time... you're doing okay. If it dips during the day and comes back up... or steadily rises and doesn't drop as you near bed time.. the adrenals are firing too late in the day... I haven't thought about those in a while.... There is another, checking your blood pressure.. but most of us don't have the gadget at home... And the docs can run labs... but many won't.... We NEED a hypo for president.... but the poor pharmaceutical companies would go bankrupt without us to support them! hehehehe Topper () On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:40:54 -0800 (PST) PAC writes: "Can you run by what you are doing for meds and supplements now and how your labs look for me again?"I am now taking .125 levothyroxine every other day with .112 on the other days because as soon as I started the .125 I started having diarrhea; however, I am sleeping better and my heart rate when I go to bed at night is slower. It was so rapid that it was driving my nuts in my ears.I, also, take Nexium, Zyrtec-D, 150 mg Effexor, Nasonex, 2 multivitamins-no iron, 1500 mgs calcium, B-50 daily. Vit C,

zinc, and B-12 every other day.Labs non-fasting:TSH 1.26 (.49-4.67)FREE T4 1.07 (.71-1.85)BUN 24 (7-24) nearly highMy appointment with the topdoc is April 17th., I found your digestive problem story interesting because I have been drinking Maalox since I was 16 and had IBS until my RNY surgery 3 years ago. At age 11, I was on .200 Synthyroid because of a goiter 3X the size of the thyroid. I took that dose for years and years. I have been overweight, probably obese, since I was 7...I was skinny as a rail before that. That year my grandmother, that we lived with, died of liver cancer and we moved to a new area. I hated moving and my grandmother was the only stabilizing influence in my life. (My parents never did grow up.) I figure I have been in adrenal fatigue ever since.If I ever get straightened out, I might run for

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You've heard my little tale of the cop that pulled me out from behind a door at a car show? I was chugging my Maalox out of a brown paper bag, I carried a purse for the first time in my life those years just to have a place to hide my bottle... I'd hid behind the door so that everyone couldn't see me, but the cop did.... He thought I was chugging booze. I had to take the bottle out of the bag and then show him what was in the bottle...

My BF had a fit and said after that I had to carry pills...

I was soooo embarrassed!

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:51:30 -0800 (PST) Tina Hummel writes:

LOL omg Topper I have had acid reflux for years and yes I took it right out of the bottle I just took a swallow or a swig not a hit here we go again we are street druggies a hit and a swig, We sound awful. chugging don't you do that to a beer in collage contests.LMBO I love it and I love you topper just had to bust your chops...Tina