Propanolol for Adrenaline Symptoms

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Hello and Nick:

I read on the adrenals forum that propanolol can be used judiciously to handle

adrenaline attacks (not regularly but as a last ditch resort).

My adrenals crashed 6 months ago from substituting for Armour when it became

unavailable. My brief history is 4 years ago, at age 46, I got abrupt peri sx's

and what I now understand to be adrenal crash symptoms when I weaned my son. At

that time I was diagnosed Hashi's, stage 5 adrenal fatigue, peri. My rT3 ratio

then was 15. These symptoms were handled for 3 years by an ND that prescribed

Isocort, Armour and BHRT and a lot of supplements. I had (what I now believe to

have been) low adrenal episodes every few months that always responded to

increased estrogen/progesterone ratio and consistently improved over the years

(I thought). Since Amour unavailable, 7 usuccessful trials with throid meds,

severe adrenaline symptoms episodically while still on thyroid, now constant

mild to severe for 3 months since off all thyroid.

My ND gave me Lentra and 5-HTP, which help a tiny bit for the adrenaline. She

had me try Xanax which unpredictably put me to sleep for several hours but

worsened the adrenaline symptoms upon waking as an experiment to see how much of

the problem was physiological and how much was my reaction to it. I do not feel

Xanax helped me enough to justify taking it. She then put me on 25mgs.

Propanolol (10-5-10) everyday to help. It does seem to have helped a little and

I have been taking it a couple months. I know this blocks T3-T4 conversion and

I will want to be off it asap.

But right now I am working on stabilizing my adrenals in preparation to begin

back on thyroid med.

So my question is: is there a more effective way to take Propanolol right now

to help with the severe adrenaline symptoms until I get stabilized on HC?

Should I be dosing it differently?

Thanks in advance,

Terri