Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 It sometimes does tell us things to have thyroid checks whle treating al the hormones. but what about your adrenals? Are you treating them? -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Hi . Per my doctor, I am following the protocol for severe adrenal fatigue. I recently called the pharmacist who seems pretty knowledgeable and asked if it would be beneficial for me to add Isocort or something similar for now. He did not think it was a good idea. I don't know what to think. I really am at the limit of what I can stand. Do you think adding Isocort even temporarily would help? This time last year my energy totally crashed, and my Free T3 went below normal. I don't know if there is a seasonal effect with my thyroid function. I just want to try anything that might help. Thanks for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Many doctors and pharmacisst are not educated in the proper use of replacing cortils as a hormone when it is low. They ony things they have learned abotu is cortils as an immune supressant in pharmacological doses and they do not understand that low cortisl is everybit as dangerous as high if not more so. Use your own judgement and read Safe Uses of Cortisol, it was a great book that made up my mind to treat myself wiht HC. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I'm woozy, weepy, and about to be a wild woman. My doc, who is actually very good, openminded and alternative, is balking at HC and tests for ferritin, aldosterone and ACTH.. I apparently missed an appt with her Tues that I thought was next Tues. This is what my life feels like...has felt like for the past few years... like I'm on a chronic woozy drunk... can't remember, missing appts, mixing things up...bubble headed, can't quite think, lose track if I try to multi-task, adn find myself just starring into my computer screen....trying to remember what I was doing and why my right eye won't focus. Sometimes, I can myself together enough to REMEMBER to look at the list I made, so I wouldn't forget, and actually call my doc, make appt... and call back to ask about the tests, email info from this list, etc.... and I get a snippy reply from her assistant who sounds all of 12 1/2 years old, that I 'missed' my appt and she has to have this conversation face to face as it wouldn't be 'good medicine', to order tests without determining if they are really neeeded. sigh.... How can I tell her everything I've learned on this site in a 12 minute office visit? I've emailed the most important things to her... but she still thinks that the salt + C + B100 is a good 'detox', rather than absolutely necessary to my ability to stay on my feet, work, adn think...even if I'm' not up to my old levels of health and performance... it's helping me at least maintain a minimum energy level during the day and stay employed.... AND, she doesn't yet understand that the HC allows the adrenals to rest. She mentioned something about folks who are really bad off she 'might' give a steriod injection.... once... Please...are the references/studies in the files? on the canary site? I can't stay on this roller coaster much longer. It's been going on and off, and getting longer and lower since 1999...... the docs thought I has MS, and I went through that until 2001. Then they thought hormones and treated me with estrogen which made everything 100x worse...and I just kept on going down hill becuase I was getting more and more frantic, working out more, volunteering more, trying to outrun my adrenal overproduction of cortisol, I now think....... but with worse and worse...what they all said were 'menopause' symptoms'.... increasing fatigue, weight gain, visual problems, depression, irritability...then the bad crash and MRI for pituitary tumor in Nov 06.... and finally hypo diagnosis, and adrenal exhaustion diagnosis... in Jan 07. feeling better on treatment from March - July... then sliding down that slope again to a crash.. Nov 07.... Although I've come back some with the sea salt protocol, I KNOW I need HC... and probably DHEA and maybe estrogen as you said earlier Val... But I cant do ANY of htat until I have the labs. If my doc won't order them, I'll have to find the money... How can I 'enroll' her in this different way of understanding the relationship between thyroid, pituitary, adrenals, hormones, etc? There has to be something I can take in my hands and give her... even if I have to find it, format it and print it out.... I'll see her Tuesday... that gives me the weekend to prepare... I have rarely felt this... angry, sad, lonely, desparate... I was a child and family advocate for years... wish we had those for Hypo and AF folks... a 'case mgr', to help us talk with our docs... I used to work miracles for some families... and now I feel like I need one.. I just want to cry... so... references, please... I really wnat to give her a chance to understand and get on board with a new treatment concept. She's already helped so many of us here, but she needs to take the next step.....and I'm willing to take the risk with her... Any suggestion is welcome... I have no where else to turn but you Val, and the rest of the list... Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I just printed out some stuff from http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com and will take it to my doc on Monday. I am highlighting the things he REALLY NEEDS TO READ, in case he says he doesn't have time to read (one of his favorite sayings). But if your doc is not as open minded as you think she is, there may be no way of changing her thinking--then you find a new doc. I have found an " integrative medicine doc " the best kind--they seem to be willing to learn new things and even experiment some. And insurance covers them because they are an MD! Good Luck! -Sharon Szuzn wrote: > How can I 'enroll' her in this different way of understanding the > relationship between thyroid, pituitary, adrenals, hormones, etc? There has > to be something I can take in my hands and give her... even if I have to > find it, format it and print it out.... I'll see her Tuesday... that > gives me the weekend to prepare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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