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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.

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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.

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Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

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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,

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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...

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