Sleep problems with HC and T4

February 7, 2008

Hi all,

I am new to this forum and would like to ask for your advice.

I was diagnosed hypo about 1 year ago, suffering from delayed fatigue,

sleep problems, poor stamina, tiredness, poor immune system. I built

up to 100mg of T4. I was then diagosed with adrenal stress

(hypoadrenia) and Hashimoto's disease (autoimmune thyroid disease). I

tried natural adrenal glandular extracts, but they didn't work, so was

prescribed Hydrocortone. I built up the HC to about 10mg a day, but

then started to suffer from thyroid dump (unable to sleep, high

pulse), so I stopped taking the T4 over 1 week ago. Now I am on my

full dose of 15mg per day of HC (5mg at 8am, 5mg at 12 and 5mg at 4pm).

However, I am still not sleeping well. It takes me an hour to get to

sleep and I wake up a lot during the night. I am considering taking

1mg of Melatonin for a few nights, but am uneasy about introducing

another hormone into my body.

Am I still suffering from too my T4 in my system?

I would greatly appreciate your comments.

Regards

Test results:

December 2007 - Free T4 is 19.01 (range is 9.0-19.1)

TSH is 0.35 (range is 0.4-4.0)

September 2007( on 50mg of T4 per day)- Free T3 was 5.4

(range is 4.0-6.8)

Free T4 is 19.2 (range is 10.3 - 24.5)

TSH is 3.58 (range is 0.4 - 4.0)

August 2007 (no medication)- Free T3 is 5.4 (range is 4.0-6.8)

Free T4 is 13.3 (range is 9.0-19.1)

TSH is 7.04 (range is 0.4-4.0)

November 2007 Cortisol levels:

0700-0800: Result was 3.5 (ref 12-22)

1100-1200: Result was 7.3 (ref 4-8)

1600-1700: Result was 1.5 (ref 3-7)

2300-0000: Result was 0.8 (1-3)

DHEA levels:

Sample 2am: Result 1.65 (ref 0.3-0.7)

Sample 3pm: Result 0.99 (ref 0.3-0.7)

DHEA to Cortisol ratio: Result 10.1 (ref 0.8-3.5)

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