New Doc Tomorrow - What to Say?

[Guest guest]

I don't know what to tell this guy. I can't handle thyroid meds

without adrenal support, but all the temp charts show that when I take

adrenal stuff my temps drop like a rock.

Even without taking any, in the AM my cortisol levels are the highest

(13), and my temps are the lowest (95s and 96s).

Then as the day goes on, my cortisol levels drop to 0-1, and that's

when my temperatures are the most stabilized, at 97.7.

In the evening, the cortisol levels start going back up again, to 3 at

midnight, and my temps drop correspondingly: 97.3, 97.0, 96.8, etc.

When I tell this guy I can't handle the smallest amount of thyroid

without crashing, I know he's going to ask why I think I need cortisol

if the temps keep going down whenever the cortisol goes up. That seems

to say I need thyroid, not cortisol. Actually, I don't even really

understand that myself, unless it's just because the adrenal function

is so weak, or there's some pituitary feedback problem? He measured

plasma cortisol -- it was around 3PM so it should be at its lowest and

maybe there's an in there -- but otherwise, what should I do?

-Jeff