Guest guest Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Hi everyone, just having trouble adjusting to thyroid medication. I am starting on whole thyroid 1/2 grain (30 mg) which is both T4 and T3. I have been on hydrocortisone several months now and am on 10 mg per day and seen good improvement. Took me awhile to get use to hydrocortisone due to yeast increasing etc. but have stuck with it. My problem is taking the thyroid has made me feel dreadful, tearful anxious etc. I am now on day 3 and wondering whether I should stop trying as I feel worse each day. I increased hydrocortisone 2.5 mg yesterday and will do the same today increasing overall to 5 mg to see if this helps the adjustment. Any others out there had trouble initially with balancing the thyroid that went in time and then improved? I was not keen to increase the hydrocortisone too much but maybe thats my problem? Just had throat infection recently and did not increase hydrocortisone so maybe I was too low to begin with when I introduced thyroid treatment. Quite difficult going backwards when I know I need the thyroid treatment. Feeling a bit desperate? Any advice? Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Hi everyone, just having trouble adjusting to thyroid medication. I am starting on whole thyroid 1/2 grain (30 mg) which is both T4 and T3. I have been on hydrocortisone several months now and am on 10 mg per day and seen good improvement. Took me awhile to get use to hydrocortisone due to yeast increasing etc. but have stuck with it. My problem is taking the thyroid has made me feel dreadful, tearful anxious etc. I am now on day 3 and wondering whether I should stop trying as I feel worse each day. I increased hydrocortisone 2.5 mg yesterday and will do the same today increasing overall to 5 mg to see if this helps the adjustment. Any others out there had trouble initially with balancing the thyroid that went in time and then improved? I was not keen to increase the hydrocortisone too much but maybe thats my problem? Just had throat infection recently and did not increase hydrocortisone so maybe I was too low to begin with when I introduced thyroid treatment. Quite difficult going backwards when I know I need the thyroid treatment. Feeling a bit desperate? Any advice? Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Hi Helen, do you have your adrenal and thyroid test scores to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Helen, When you had the throat infection you should have stress dosed. Your body needs more cortisone when under any stress. Do you have a wallet card stating you are adrenal deficient? Read the following links more than likely at this point you need to start over. Fix the adrenals first then start to add the thyroid meds. For yeast you might want to use olive leaf to get rid of it in a hurry. 450 mg a day for 3 days then slowly increase to 2,000 mg by day 7. 7 more days of 2,000 mg then if all looks well go down to 450 for a few day then stop. You will need to take activated charcoal or clay to remove the toxins from die off. You also may need to increase good bacteria to replace the bad that is killed. Yeast is a form of parasite olive leaf so effective you have to be careful of killing them to fast or you will get sick from die off as the liver can not keep up. link for adrenals http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info/ Mistakes Patients Make (or their Doctors make for them!) http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/mistakes-patients-make/ Thing we have learned http://www.stopthethyroidmadness com/things-we-have-learned Metabolic Temperature Graph this will tell you where you are and or need to be with adrenal and thyroid. http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp -- Re: Thryoid Balancing Hi everyone, just having trouble adjusting to thyroid medication. I am starting on whole thyroid 1/2 grain (30 mg) which is both T4 and T3. I have been on hydrocortisone several months now and am on 10 mg per day and seen good improvement. Took me awhile to get use to hydrocortisone due to yeast increasing etc. but have stuck with it. My problem is taking the thyroid has made me feel dreadful, tearful anxious etc. I am now on day 3 and wondering whether I should stop trying as I feel worse each day. I increased hydrocortisone 2.5 mg yesterday and will do the same today increasing overall to 5 mg to see if this helps the adjustment. Any others out there had trouble initially with balancing the thyroid that went in time and then improved? I was not keen to increase the hydrocortisone too much but maybe thats my problem? Just had throat infection recently and did not increase hydrocortisone so maybe I was too low to begin with when I introduced thyroid treatment. Quite difficult going backwards when I know I need the thyroid treatment. Feeling a bit desperate? Any advice? Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 > > Most people using hydrocortisone require between 20 and 30 mg > daily (four divided doses), especially if they are also taking > thyroid. > hard to find people knowledgable enough to help you test properly and dose properly. Too much cortisol, or too little, will interfere with thyroid. It is very, very, very difficult, again IMO, to sort it all out by symptoms alone. IME, gut problems were throwing off my adrenal scores and thyroid scores. After testing, the answer, a big surprise to me, turned out to be not more Isocort or HC and not more Armour, but fix the infections and food intolerances. HTH, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 --- It's really tricky trying to balance the thyroid and adrenals and I have been trying for a long time! I do know that a lot of people get quite emotional when they start out on Armour. I was told it is a sort of healing process. I had it too. But it may be that you need to increase your dose of Hydrocortisone but maybe something else. You don't say how long you have been taking the Armour - if it has a been 10 days or more it may be sign to increase it perhaps? Do you have signs of low cortisol such as poor response to stress, weakness, shaking inside etc? There is a very good yahoo group called naturalthyroidhormones and they can give you lots of advice on how to sort out both the adrenals and thyroid. Good luck. In frequent-dose-chelation , " tiriislandbichonfrisepurple " wrote: > > Hi everyone, just having trouble adjusting to thyroid medication. I > am starting on whole thyroid 1/2 grain (30 mg) which is both T4 and > T3. I have been on hydrocortisone several months now and am on 10 mg > per day and seen good improvement. Took me awhile to get use to > hydrocortisone due to yeast increasing etc. but have stuck with it. > My problem is taking the thyroid has made me feel dreadful, tearful > anxious etc. I am now on day 3 and wondering whether I should stop > trying as I feel worse each day. I increased hydrocortisone 2.5 mg > yesterday and will do the same today increasing overall to 5 mg to > see if this helps the adjustment. > > Any others out there had trouble initially with balancing the thyroid > that went in time and then improved? I was not keen to increase the > hydrocortisone too much but maybe thats my problem? Just had throat > infection recently and did not increase hydrocortisone so maybe I was > too low to begin with when I introduced thyroid treatment. Quite > difficult going backwards when I know I need the thyroid treatment. > Feeling a bit desperate? Any advice? > > Helen > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Have stopped the whole thyroid for the moment and may try again after some more chelation. I was not on quite enough hydrocortisone at the time of introducing the thyroid hence the problem. It seems you have to fight between the adrenal issue and the thyroid issue, taking more hydrocortisone means taking more thyroid and the opposite also applies - quite difficult to get the balance when you are mercury toxic. Spoke to Andy whom I am also consulting with and he said you can chelate ok without thyroid supplementation if you are only mild hypothyroid and your symptoms are not that bothersome which for me are not that severe. My problems are more adrenal and that seems to be more important in my case. Andy also advised that through more chelation (I am on round 10 now DMSA 12.5mg) that I will become less sensitive and able to tolerate more. I am very sensitive and unable to tolerate much at all especially when it comes to any hormones so I will just stick to supplements, DMSA and hydrocortisone for now. Eeven the hyrdrocortisone took me awhile to adjust to at low doses because of the immense increase in my yeast problem which I am also treating. I am just very toxic and will just have to go slowly and only take what my body tolerates till I make more progress. This is also what Andy advises, getting the heavy metals out is the priority and the most important thing is to chelate to make progress. Hope this helps others in the same sensitive category as me. Regards Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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