Re: Don't understand the variability between one day and the next - sleeping

[Guest guest]

Hi Barb, no doubt that part of my problem was an increase in stress

b/c I knew that I had to tell my boss that I was taking another job

this morning, but that doesn't explain the night before or the dizzy

all day on Monday when I wasn't working, although I did have a lot of

errands to do. I pushed my pred back an hour but didn't change the

dose yet - trying not to change too many things at a time.

Meanwhile, I haven't made a move on my Armour dose for like 3 weeks

and check out my temps going back to when I backed out my failed 1/4

grain increase and inclusive of today:

98.12

98.03

98.08

97.90

97.82

98.10

98.03

98.07

98.18

98.05

98.07

98.07

98.20

98.17

Judging by temps and symptoms, I'm ready to go up and I was going to

until the sleep issues crept back in over the past two nights. I'm

literally afraid to increase Armour at this point because of what I

expect it to do to my sleep, but I need to add that 1/8 at bed-time

and soon - I'll never get the adrenals healed until I optimize Armour

and I'm not there.

I also got my troches on the way home from work so I'm trying to

figure out how to use them. I guess that I should be safe and swap

out one dose at a time so I was thinking about starting with the

morning dose.

>

> It still troubles me that you can't get up. How about taking your pred

> later, but at a lower dose? Like take 5 mg cream at bedtime with .5 ml

> pred? Because it's bioidentical, I think your body will go through the

> HC cream first, and then when it runs out, will find the pred and use

> that. And then being a lower dose, might possibly use it up by the

> time you should wake.

>

> If you feel dizzy and like you're at a deficit all day, maybe you

> should bump the 6:30 p.m. dose to 7.5 mg too. Then you'd be doing

> 10/10/7.5/7.5/5+ .5 ml pred.

>

> Just an idea,

> Barb

[Guest guest]

It might if you were already thinking about it. Your stress level could have

been higher dreading it. As for Monday, I finally decided the dizzy spells I

was having were from stressful situations using up extra cortisol and me not

stress dosing. Kind of a delayed reaction though. It wouldn't happen until

the next day or so. For instance, yesterday was a busy day (Mondays always

are) but nothing unusal so I didn't stress dose. Today I have felt like

total crap. Energy almost into the negatives. I'm thinking this is a

reaction from yesterday on top of recovering from the flu. I don't feel sick

anymore, but I'm betting yesterday used up whatever pitiful reserves I might

have built up. I don't know if this theory would apply to you or not though.

:-)

Rie

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enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright

> Hi Barb, no doubt that part of my problem was an increase in stress

> b/c I knew that I had to tell my boss that I was taking another job

> this morning, but that doesn't explain the night before or the dizzy

> all day on Monday when I wasn't working, although I did have a lot of

> errands to do. I pushed my pred back an hour but didn't change the

> dose yet - trying not to change too many things at a time.

>

>

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5:50 AM

[Guest guest]

Sounds like how I felt yesterday after not sleeping well Sunday or

Monday and probably trying to do too much on Monday, my " day off " like

I have done every Monday. Still, I woke up again this morning at 5:30,

sweating, although not bad, and without the stomach ache so I didn't

eat or take HC. Something is just not right with my dosing and never

has been and pred, at least in the one dose, has not been the answer

so far.

Thanks Cherie.

>

> It might if you were already thinking about it. Your stress level

could have

> been higher dreading it. As for Monday, I finally decided the dizzy

spells I

> was having were from stressful situations using up extra cortisol

and me not

> stress dosing. Kind of a delayed reaction though. It wouldn't happen

until

> the next day or so. For instance, yesterday was a busy day (Mondays

always

> are) but nothing unusal so I didn't stress dose. Today I have felt like

> total crap. Energy almost into the negatives. I'm thinking this is a

> reaction from yesterday on top of recovering from the flu. I don't

feel sick

> anymore, but I'm betting yesterday used up whatever pitiful reserves

I might

> have built up. I don't know if this theory would apply to you or not

though.

> :-)

>

> Rie