Cortef Users

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I worry about you. I know, it is none of my business what you do. Some here

think 20 mg

Cortef is low dose. It is not. (Jeffries' Safe Uses of Cortisol not withstanding

-it is an

outdated book and dangerous to think routine 20 mg Cortef is safe in any sense

of the

word.) 20 mg Cortef is my full daily replacement 's disease dose, maybe

even a bit

too much. Shutting down the HPA axis is a clear risk on this amount if you

don't wean

yourself carefully. And do you ever intend to wean yourself???? It can be

unpleasant to do

so but wait too long and you'll never be able to wean yourself: it is called

Secondary

's via the use of exogenous corticosteroids. Anyway, a self-crashed HPA

axis is

something you will regret profoundly. It is pretty easy to do this and it is by

far the main

source of new cases of Secondary 's. And if you don't crash the axis you

will still

have to endure the joys of adrenal suppression where you can't take Cortef since

you are

trying to get the adrenals back on line and at the same time you don't make

enough

cortisol to feel really well. If your adrenals are working, taking HC out of

some idea that it

will help you to better utilize thyroid hormones is really playing with fire.

This is just my considered opinion, backed by a great deal of study and

experience.

Cortef Users, do as you wish, you will anyway.... be careful out there.

Hopefully I am just a

windbag and a nag and you all know exactly what you are up to and what the

issues are.

Jim