Very weird - lower Isocort, lower Armour, yet temps still about where they were..

January 28, 2008

Now I'm confused. I'm deceased Isocort from 13 pills down to 3 (3

today, 6 yesterday), decreased Armour from 3 grains down to 1.25, and

have my temp just now was 98.1. I haven't been taking regular temps

(per Rind's method) as I figured they would be unstable or in the

dirt, given the wean I'm doing. This morning right after getting up

temp was 97.3 - not great, but not horrible either. I'm thinking of

a few possibilities:

1. The 98.1 was a fluke - I had just taken 1/2 grain Armour and 1

pill Isocort, but only a few minutes before, which shouldn't be long

enough for it to absorb.

2. My gland is actually starting to work again - and might be about

to crash at some point. The selenium supplementation might have

something to do with this. I had what I think was a small Hashi's

attack about a week ago. I increased the Se to 300 mcg/d and it went

away in about two days. I'm now only taking 200 mcg/d Se.

3. I had an RT3 block that the body somehow got rid of.

4. I had a rather severe selenium deficit, which wouldn't be

impossible as 90% of the wheat has gone out of my diet over the past

2 years. How long do Se atoms persist in the body?

5. The hypothyroidism wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was, but

was " created " by the adrenal insufficiency. But this doesn't make

sense as my IC supplementation has lowered so much. Unless there was

some block in the HPA axis that resolved (this seems highly unlikely,

especially as my neurological symptoms of low-cortisol (sleep/wake

schedule, sensitivity) have not returned to anything like what they

were before this started (or gotten any better than they were then).

There could also have been a cellular T3 resistence that resolved for

some reason.

" Door number 2 " seems most likely, although I don't know how long

a " thyroid honeymoon " can last, especially since thyroid antibodies

do seem to go down with some treatments (Se treatment, possibly gland

suppression], as diabetic antibodies don't seem to do)

Jim

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