RE: Taking Armour Sublingually-Debbie

February 29, 2008

Debbie,

I'm small framed also, 5', up to 128lbs, again. Lost 5 lbs quickly at first

after treating my thyroid but have gained it back since starting the HC.

I don't recall my recent labs but Val said T4 and T3 should be higher. I have

Hashi's. That is my motivation for taking the HC. My last two TSH tests were

..57 and then back up to 1.47. I want to take more thyroid to lower my TSH to

stop the antibody attacks and save as much of my thyroid as I can. As I've

learned on here, you need adrenal health to do that (I'm probably a late stage

4/early 5).

Prior to starting Levoxyl and then Armour just over a year ago, I had my

cortisol levels tested through ZRT Lab. I wasn't even interested in the

cortisol but did it for estrogen and progesterone info due to night sweats and

to test for TPO antibodies since the endo I'd seen hadn't done that, duh! It

was fortunate that I did that testing then. Cortisol levels were low/normal at

that time.

After a year on thyroid meds I tested again............the cortisol bottomed

out! That scared me since I'd been reading about that very thing on this group!

Even though I was feeling so much better and functioning again I had to pay

attention to that red flag!

I take 2 grains Armour. Until recently I took it all in the am right before

breakfast. Now, since switching to sublingual, I take 1 grain in the am and 1

around noon. I'm sure taking it twice a day is changing my absorption in

addition to doing it sublingual.

I'm really not crazy about doing HC but after seeing my adrenals decline further

I felt my options were:

Take two years off.

Spend lots of time resting (I'm single and running a business, fat chance!) and

pumping in supplements and glandulars hoping that my thyroid survives the

Hashi's.

Take the HC with the hope that it will heal things and enable me to take more

Armour.

Holding good thoughts for HC success here!

Janet

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