Scheduling: Hmm, where to put the next bit?

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I feel like this is a stupid question, but I really can't decide! I'm

too stressed to decide...

First, I want to state that I STILL can't get up in the morning, even

to get to the HC. I'm too out of it for an hour or more to get it.

Grr. And night doses don't go over well, as I both can't sleep with

the extra bit...or if I do, I wake up once it wears off and then can't

sleep. So, I'd kinda rather not make either of these worse, if

possible.

I'm pretty sure HC needs to go up, but I'm not sure where to put the

extra...one reason I've put it off!

I've been at 32.5 mg for almost four weeks: 10, 7.5, 7.5, 5, 2.5,

dosing every 3 hours.

10, 10, 7.5, 5, 2.5...or

10, 7.5, 7.5, 5, 5?

Or...something else? It needs to stay five doses, as as it is, after

2 hours I'm having issues with anxiety and shaking, especially around

the 3rd and 4th doses, but also with the fifth, and temps are

generally lowest either morning or mid-day so.... I'm leaning

somewhat toward the first.

Temps have been dropping. My temps were raised for about 3 weeks from

iron, and I haven't felt hypo until the past few days, when I've been

getting some low temps thrown in. Until period hit, temps were

looking pretty good (but still not stable).

*Still* no doctor, so still not on any thyroid (and I actually start

shaking and stuff just thinking about that...let alone actually

calling--I don't even know how to bring adrenals up, or if I should

factor that in).

Here's some temps (a lot, as period whacked 'em out, and as I said,

they've been slowly dropping):

(This is temp1, temp2, temp3, ave, change)

98.0 98.4 98.0 98.1 0.07 (45 HC -- Shovelled snow...)

97.8 98.0 97.8 97.9 -0.27

97.8 97.8 98.0 97.9 0.00

97.6 97.6 96.6 97.3 -0.60

97.0 97.0 98.4 97.5 0.20 (45 HC -- Period, BP dropping)

97.6 97.0 98.0 97.5 0.07

97.0 97.8 96.8 97.2 -0.33

97.2 98.4 97.8 97.8 0.60

95.2 97.2 97.6 96.7 -1.13

97.6 97.4 98.4 97.8 1.13 (Period stopped)

97.2 97.4 97.2 97.3 -0.53

97.2 98.0 97.6 97.6 0.33

97.8 97.2 97.6 97.5 -0.07

96.6 96.8 97.6 97.0 -0.53

95.0 97.8 97.6 96.8 -0.20

95.0 96.8 98.4 96.7 -0.07

Starting with period, individual temps have gotten really spread out,

and I've been feeling worse and worse, especially the last couple of days.

Also, next time I'm thinking of stress dosing for the first 2-3 days,

at least, instead of just the first day, maybe. Does that sound

'okay', and should I go higher than, basically, another 10 mg? I

basically just stopped the bulk of the nausea/dizziness--ie, bare

minimum, and I upped the 5th dose both of the days I did 45 mg to 5 mg.

[Guest guest]

Your tempos are dropping as you are on a high dose of cortisoll and no

thyroid support. That causes the thyroid your body does have to be used

up vey quickly. BTW whenoyu send me temps oyu just need ot send the

daily averages, not the whole days temps. How long hav yo been on this

dosing regimen? What did your labs look like ot begin with?

--

Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

[Guest guest]

>

> I am willing to bet if you add Florinef to this mix and lower HC you

wil

> feel alot better. Is your BP in the dirt as well? That sodium is VERY

> low and I am surprised oyu are functional at all wiht that. Muscle

> spasms? ALL would be low sodum. Florinef may help your fele better

> supported when it si this low with the cortisol as well.

Is the florinef something a doctor would give me based on the low

sodium? I'm pretty sure I do need the florinef, but there is the

issue of getting it, since I can't really show them my adrenal tests.

Symptoms and temps (especially starting ones) are pretty much what I

have to go by on that.

And yes, my BP is low. It hasn't budged Last time I checked it it

was 91/60, I think. It's staying roughly in that 90s/60s, and the

bottom number has slowly been going down (top number may be going up

(ie, I've gotten 98/60, whereas it used to be more 94/64). But, yeah,

BP is in the dirt, with pulse in the 80s or low 90s most of the time

(sitting), and no, the sea salt hasn't done anything for the pulse,

either.

And, yes, some muscle spasms, I suppose! I think the eye twitching is

low thyroid (it stopped during the higher temps, and just came back a

couple of days ago), but I'm also getting cramps/spasms in my feet

(since I was in elementary school...not new!). Magnesium helps the

ones in the toes, but not the eye twitching. I also have muscle

spasms that go along with the adrenal pain/low cortisol symptoms.

Right now they're gone most of the day, minus night/morning/when stressed.

And, yes, it's very low. I don't avoid salt, either. I've not seen

anyone else with sodium that low, although I haven't had a lot of time

to really read on here much. Sodium was the lowest of all my

electrolytes, and potassium was the highest (but still below midrange).

And, honestly, I'm not sure I'd say I'm functional! I fake it, and

have always stopped when I start feeling bad, making me

'uncooperative', because adults never believed anything I said

(including doctors), and so I'd go right to the limit, and then more

or less stop. I've done this since I was 6-7 years old, and have

pretty much considered myself 'useless' because of it. I know I'm

very, very dehydrated. I think the worst thing that could be sodium

(or aldosterone) related is that my eyes are very sensitive to

light(?). I've had a headache from this for 10 years, and is one of

two reasons I can't work under normal lighting (I'm currently working

from home)--and so I'm not really a part of normal society. Between

that and my sun sensitivity (think allergy to UVA light, including

fluorescents), I don't really get to leave the house much.