Re: Re: Nick, Val, Jacki, or someone...

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, Did you feel like your air hunger was not being able to get a good deep breath? Sort of like your body was too tired to breathe deeply? Mine is bad when I am up and walking around. When I lie down at night and relax, I can breathe a lot better, so I'm assuming it's a "cell energy" type of thing.

I am taking iron and b12 now. Also d3, and am on 37.5 Cytomel now. Trying to raise slowly. My rt3 ratio was 12.14 last check. Started at 10.78.

Thanks!

Subject: Re: Nick, Val, Jacki, or someone...To: RT3_T3 Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 12:36 PM

I had it horribly, off and on. At first we thought it was a heart issue. I could barely walk up the stairs. Then, when I started getting better, I broke all the Adrenal Fatigue rules and decided I could start exercising. All i did was gasp for breath, and of course, it set me back with thyroid as I started having RT3 issues. Once my adrenals started getting better, the Armour and Cytomel- I was on both initially- started working, and I didn't have the air hunger issue until I went RT3 like crazy. My ferritin and B12 have always been good and I make sure that my adrenals have plenty of support with sea salt and hydrocortisone cream. Every once in a while if I'm stressed, or get too hot, do too much, at the tail end of a cortisone dose, or if I'm late with the T3, I'll get a bit of air hunger, but it's not debilitating. From what I've read here, it seems to be a combination of things and finding the balance in various meds and supplements that let's

your body use the T3. I've practiced yoga, meditation and breathing for 30 years, and sometimes, I just have to stop, make my mind quiet and breathe slowly....to calm myself. While I believe I've had adrenal and hypo issues since childhood, and had 8 miscarriages and other health issues, I've been on this part of the journey since diagnosis only 2.5 yrs. Thankfully, I found Val and Nick, and many others on these two groups. I'm 56 and it looks like I'll keep on living...you'll get better, Joan. I know you post often, and I haven't looked for your labs, but I just wonder if something else isn't out of kilter. I tried to raise T3 too quickly and got much worse, so I went back down and added more adrenal support. Hope this helps. Hang in there! >> Does rt3 clearance truly help get rid of the air hunger, or shortness of breath? And can it happen while you're raising t3 on the way? It's the most frustrating, debilitating, aggravating and depressing thing I've ever been through, and one needs to see light at the end of the tunnel. If anyone has a good testimony, please let me hear it!>