Adrenal question

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Val,

You answered a post I had a week ago or so saying I might have more

than adrenal fatigue and should get an ACTH Stim test. I am having a

problem getting my Dr to do the test but I am working on it. In the

mean time I was wondering if I should stop my armour until I get my

adrenal situation figured out. I have read Dr wilson's book and have

done Dr Rind's temperature tests, I am all over the board for a week

with a low average of 97.1 to a high average of 98.5. When I do the

pupil test my pupil will not stay constricted, it flutters trying to

stay that way. I am positve I have some sort of adrenal issues but

hard to differentiate as the sysmptoms are for both hyppothyroid and

adrenal fatigue. I am hoping I can do an ACTH Stim test in 5 weeks

when I have an appt with my Dr. I have been on armour 60mg for a

week. The first 4 or 5 days were fine but the last two I have felt

anxious, could not sleep, my heart rate increased, sweating at night,

hot, heart palpitations. I was dx with hashi and hypothyroid. I read

that this reaction could be because my low adrenals are not allowing

the armour to work. Would it be better if I stopped armour until I

try to support the adrenals or is this a normal reaction to someone

first starting armour. I wish I would have learned about adrenal

fatigue and read Dr. s book before I went to my Dr the first

time so I could have treated it the correct way by dx my adrenals

first but that is hindsight. I will post my labs again for you to

reference. Thanks for your help with this post and all the others

that I have read from everyone on this site. I am a 31 year old

healthy maled other the Hashi and Hypothyroid. P.S do you have any

suggestions if I can not get the Dr. to do an ACTH Stim test. I have

already been through 3 trying to find a Dr that would listen to me

and not my tests.

Saliva Corisol

Morning 4.8 (3.7-9.5) I was told by others that this is low

Noon 1.6 (1.2-3.0)

Evening 1.2 (.6-1.9)

Night .4 (.4-1.0)

Estradiol .9 (.5-2.2)

Progesterone 33 (12-100)

Testosterone 112 (44-148)

DEAHS 6.3 (2-23)

Blood test

Free T4 1.5 (.7-2.5)

Free T3 2.6 (2.5-6.5)

TSH 2.83 (.5-3.0)

TPO 485 (0-150)