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

[Guest guest]

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Are you keeping track of what you are eating? That could be an important

variable.

At 10:52 AM 2/19/2008, you wrote:

>Probably to everyone's surprise, I have not changed my dose of

>anything, HC, Armour, vits or supps for over a week.

>

>I'm dosing 2 grains of Armour 4x/day, 1/2 grain at a time, the last

>dose before bed.

>

>I'm dosing HC 10mg/8AM, 10mg/11:30-noon, 7.5mg/3:30-4, 5mg/6:30-7 and

>2.5mg of cream right before bed between 10:30 and 11:30 (I stay up a

>little later on weekends to try to spend some time with my wife who

>stays up later than me working every night). I take my 1.25ml of

>prednisolone liquid at 7PM.

>

>I take all of my B vits, 5000IU of vit D, and some powdered C during

>the day, not in the evening or night, and I even keep my consumption

>of coconut oil to earlier in the day because someone suggested that it

>can be stimulating.

>

>I take 1mg of Klonopin before bed.

>

>Doing all of this I slept pretty well Thursday, Friday, and Sat.

>nights waking up almost exactly at 3AM to go to the bathroom and

>falling right back to sleep until 6AM, and then again until like 7:30

>or 8 and not getting up until 9AM and having a hard time doing that.

>

>On Sunday night all was the same except that I didn't sleep much after

>6AM.

>

>Last night, I woke up at 3AM like usual, fell back to sleep but woke

>up again at 4 and then 5 with a slight case of the sweats and that

>feeling in my stomach that means that I was lacking something - either

>HC, blood sugar, or both. I got up and ate some cheese with 2.5mg of

>HC and the stomach feeling went away, but I didn't sleep much more

>except for a few minutes between 6 and 7AM when my alarm went off and

>then had to drag myself out of bed.

>

>I didn't do anything different yesterday than I have done for the past

>several days, but I was dizzier and generally feeling like I was

>running a cortisol deficit all day, I just don't know why.

>

>I'm not even sure what to ask after writing all of this except does

>anyone else experience similar - everything is more or less fine (as

>fine as we can be) for a few days and then, for no apparent reason,

>something changes and sleep goes to pot?

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

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

" jasrich " wrote:

> I'm dosing HC 10mg/8AM, 10mg/11:30-noon, 7.5mg/3:30-4, 5mg/6:30-7 and

> 2.5mg of cream right before bed between 10:30 and 11:30 (I stay up a

> little later on weekends to try to spend some time with my wife who

> stays up later than me working every night). I take my 1.25ml of

> prednisolone liquid at 7PM.

.. . . not getting up until 9AM and having a hard time doing that.

>

> Last night, I woke up at 3AM like usual, fell back to sleep but woke

> up again at 4 and then 5 with a slight case of the sweats and that

> feeling in my stomach that means that I was lacking something - either

> HC, blood sugar, or both. I was dizzier and generally feeling like I

was running a cortisol deficit all day, I just don't know why.

[Guest guest]

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

" jasrich " wrote:

> I'm dosing HC 10mg/8AM, 10mg/11:30-noon, 7.5mg/3:30-4, 5mg/6:30-7 and

> 2.5mg of cream right before bed between 10:30 and 11:30 (I stay up a

> little later on weekends to try to spend some time with my wife who

> stays up later than me working every night). I take my 1.25ml of

> prednisolone liquid at 7PM.

.. . . not getting up until 9AM and having a hard time doing that.

>

> Last night, I woke up at 3AM like usual, fell back to sleep but woke

> up again at 4 and then 5 with a slight case of the sweats and that

> feeling in my stomach that means that I was lacking something - either

> HC, blood sugar, or both. I was dizzier and generally feeling like I

was running a cortisol deficit all day, I just don't know why.