Re: *TISH -Re: ? about cortef

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on 2/18/05 11:17 AM, lkwetter at saltillo@... wrote:

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> In order not to put yourself at risk, it is much safer to taper off.

> However about a year ago I went cold turkey and got off it. I just

> planned on laying around for two weeks or more and avoiding all

> stress. I tried to taper off with going every other day on and off

> as is suggested by some doctors and it just seemed to be more

> miserable than just quitting all together. I was just taking 10 to

> 12 mg a day.

I started oput with twenty, but then after all the scary stuff I read here,

I dropped down to 15. Now Iam somewhere between 10 and 15.

My queston is, if the pills are 20 mg and the are very small, how on earth

do people regulate it by 1 & 2 mg increments?

I one feels crappy most of the time how will I know whether I am having

trouble getting off the stuff or not?

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> Some doctors recommend taking cortisone every other day when trying

> to get off. The off day forces the pituitary to get back to work.

> Cortisone therapy is worse for the pituitary than the adrenal gland

> itself. It tends to make the pituitary lazy and it does not easily

> want to go back to work telling your adrenals to make hormones. for

> sure the adrenal gland becomes weak from it, too. But, the advice is

> that if tapering off slowly does not work, then they suggest the

> every other day scheme to force things back into action. When you

> are tapering off, you need to be very mindful of stress as you are

> vulnerable to overdoing and getting into a bad low cortisol

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Also I am under constant stress from illness and some family situations, not

to mention financial from not working. If I am under stress and NEED a lot

of cortisol does that make it more difficult to become dependant onit ornot?

Thanks,

Inga

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> Anyway, I have read of some people taking 8 months to get off by

> dropping a tiny bit at a time and of others who were able to go down

> 1 mg a week. According to my reading in medical books, getting off

> cortisone is a highly individual thing. Some can do it easily,

> others have a very hard time getting their pituitary and adrenals to

> go back to work.

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> Tish

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