RE: White pigmentation spots on arms, legs, chest and back

[Guest guest]

Hi Gail

may i ask you how your medulla stage were determined?

thanks a lot.

Nil

Subject: White pigmentation spots on arms, legs, chest and

back

My saliva stress test says I was depressed all across the board....also all

my sex hormones are messed up...I'm at stage 7 Cortex and 4 Medulla.

[Guest guest]

> Does anyone know if the white pigmentation spots are from Thyroid

> or Adrenals?

>

This MIGHT be vitiligo, which is an autoimmune disorder which targets

the melanosomes in the skin. I know that *dark skin* is associated

with one or the other (I think thyroid, but both TSH and ACTH seem in

the same synthetic pathway as melonacortin which controls

pigmentation). Val?

> I've been on 10 mc HC & 1/2 gain Armour for one year with very

> little relief of symptoms...after finding " STTM " site and this

> forum I've self dosed myself to 20mg HC and 1 grain armour. I also

> have brown spots which I have found out from this site is due to

> low Cortisol. My saliva stress test says I was depressed all

> across the board....also all my sex hormones are messed up...I'm at

> stage 7 Cortex and 4 Medulla.

>

Val, you'd know (much) more - but at stage 7 I'd think you'd need

more than 10 mg. I was at about 26mg (in Isocort) and I still think

that might not have been quite enough. I *hope* I'm not quite at

stage 7 yet - my stress/energy responses before starting didn't seem

THAT bad (Tests will tell). With the medulla involved, would that

call for aldosterone testing, and possibly other things produced there?

Jim

[Guest guest]

> Does anyone know if the white pigmentation spots are from Thyroid

> or Adrenals?

>

This MIGHT be vitiligo, which is an autoimmune disorder which targets

the melanosomes in the skin. I know that *dark skin* is associated

with one or the other (I think thyroid, but both TSH and ACTH seem in

the same synthetic pathway as melonacortin which controls

pigmentation). Val?

> I've been on 10 mc HC & 1/2 gain Armour for one year with very

> little relief of symptoms...after finding " STTM " site and this

> forum I've self dosed myself to 20mg HC and 1 grain armour. I also

> have brown spots which I have found out from this site is due to

> low Cortisol. My saliva stress test says I was depressed all

> across the board....also all my sex hormones are messed up...I'm at

> stage 7 Cortex and 4 Medulla.

>

Val, you'd know (much) more - but at stage 7 I'd think you'd need

more than 10 mg. I was at about 26mg (in Isocort) and I still think

that might not have been quite enough. I *hope* I'm not quite at

stage 7 yet - my stress/energy responses before starting didn't seem

THAT bad (Tests will tell). With the medulla involved, would that

call for aldosterone testing, and possibly other things produced there?

Jim

[Guest guest]

Hmm. So it does appear to be an adrenal issue. Yes, I have lost most of my

body hair too, eyelashes, brows and scalp also. So, the NP helped, huh?

Was it a specific type of acupuncture? I would be interested to see if that

could further help my adrenals.

Cheri

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Cheri,

I will also say...that I was seeing an NP who was doing accupuncture and

that really worked. He got the adrenals jump started and that's what got the

breasts growing again and the dryness in the skin softening and the hair on

my legs starting to grow again....but it wasn't until I switched to a NP/MD

who got me on Cortef and Armour that the weight started

to come back....but it is a painfully slow process. thanks again for your

response...Gail

.

[Guest guest]

that happened to me when I moved into stage 7. Very upsetting..Huge weight and

muscle loss.my hips also got empty like 90 years old woman.my breasts were empty

resting on my breast bones. I lost about 18 lbs in 6 months time.started

looking like 90 years old women. wrinkles formed on face. started getting better

after supplementing cortisone.

bw

Nil

RE: White pigmentation spots on arms, legs, chest and

back

Cheri,

Thanks so much for your response...I've read somewhere that lack of adrenal

and thyroid hormones can cause breast shrinkage but it is good to know that I'm

not alone. I went from a C cup to a barely A....very distressing for me. I

also went from a size 10-12 to a size 0-2 in pants and small in tops....I lost

30 lbs in one month. I went from 135lbs to 105 and I'm 5' 7 " ....very shocking

and