Re: Cortef+Food allergies

March 3, 2005

Okay. This issues gets me real confused...and a bit scared too.

I am under much stress from illness and some of life's situations.

I finallyt got on CORTISONE a few weeks ago and most of my feeling like I am

gong crazy " symptoms disappeared.

Now...here is the deal:

I am mercury toxic and Cutler says that our adrenals are so stressed

that almost all mercury toxic individuals can benefit from adrenal support,

and not to worry too much becasue we jsut don't have much adrenal function

anyway.

He DOES suggest cortisol tapers and dong it every 2-3 months ion one of his

writings.

Okay. I was having sever attacks last year...ones that nearly killed me.

Many were food related and the rest is probably from the general condition

of being mercury toxic.

Well...I have been chelating for a year ow with DMSA and have finally gotten

to a point that I just don't hardly get any attacks anymore. (I also have

added HNI enzymes tpo my protocol)

Well, yesterday I had some DENALI ice cream, and 6 hours later I went into

one of the worst attacks I have had, and seriously, I do not know how I

lived through it to be writing this.

So if I am taking CORTISONE, does this mean that my adrenals are even weaker

now and that when I go into a reaction I have less inate CORTISONE reserve

and I should take a bunch of CORTISONE when I get and attack?

OPr ios it likely that the lowered CORTISONE reserves from taking CORTISONE

sent me into attack...or just IS THERE ANY RELATIONSHIP HERE AT ALL.

I ALMOST DIED LAST NIGHT>

(No don't even consider emergency...theyare absoluely cluesless about

mercury and food allergies here....the biggest joke on the planet)

Thjings is...I thought that taking CORTISOL was supposed to help alleviate

allergic reactions , so I am confused now.

~Inga

>

> The ramifications of cortef dependence seem much more serious to me.

> First, taking up to 20 mg a day, puts you at risk of an adrenal

> crisis, which can put you in the hospital or worse. When you take

> cortisone for some time, your adrenals become less able to supply

> enough extra hormone needed for stress situations and illness. On 20

> mg, the adrenals will have only 40% of the capacity of the heatlhy

> adrenals. You should wear a warning bracelet or neclace and carry

> cortisone with you all the time. If something very stressful

> happened to you, you would not have the capacity to handle it.

> Stress can easily require double or more output of cortisone in a

> very short time, even as little as minutes. A healthy adrenal gland

> stores 3 weeks worth of extra hormone for these stress situations

> and for vigorous excercise and illness. But, after you have been on

> 20 mg of cortisone for 4 weeks, adrenal storage is reduced by over

> half.

>

> In comparison, a person can go months without thyroid and not end up

> in the hospital. You may feel worse than ever, but you will survive.

> In the early days of thyroid research, thyroidectomized people

> somehow managed to live for a year or more. In fact, if you did not

> have your thyroid removed or severly damaged by radioactive Iodine

> treatment, you would find that after about 6 weeks of being without

> medication, your own thyroid would kick in and start to produce much

> of your daily needs. You would be hypo, but you would be able to

> survive for amny years. You certainly would be in rotten health,

> though.

>

> The other downside of taking cortiosne is it's suppressive effect on

> the pituitary/hypothalamus. People vary hugely in their sensitivity

> to cortisone thearapy. There is a small percentage, probably less

> than 5%, of people who will get permanent suppression of the

> pituitary/hypothalamus from cortisone therapy. In other words, when

> they try to get off the cortisone, their brain does not go back to

> normal function to tell the adrenals to make hormone. Then they will

> need to be permanently on cortisone therapy and will have developed

> secondary s. They will then have a lifetime of limited

> capacity for stress and have to cary cortisone shots for the risk of

> adrenal crisis.

>

> The longer you are on cortisone therapy, the more risk you take of

> permanently suppressing or lowering the function of the

> pituitary/hypothalamus with espect to stimulating the production of

> cortisone and other hormones from the adrenals.

>

> Studies have found that the majority of people put on cortisone

> therapy can get off. I have found from my recent research that some

> say it takes as long to get off cortiosne therapy as you were on it.

> This is not true for everybody. The rate of being able to get off

> cortisone is very individual. Some can get off fairly quickly over a

> few months. Others take 8 months or more and then for 1 year after

> getting off you will still be limited in how much stress you can

> handle and will have to carry cortisone with you for situations that

> exceed your capacity. You will also have to take it for illness and

> probably for vigorous excercise.

>

> So, basically, cortisone therapy can make you more limited than

> thyroid therapy and it can put you at risk of creating a new problem

> for you that you didn't have before treatment - basically secondary

> s. The risk is low, but it is there.

>

> Tish

>

March 3, 2005