Re: * Re: for Tish -advice/info for Mo

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Tish,

Thank you for all the times you have spent time answering my questions.

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> If you develop trouble with thyroid at doses less than about 3

> grains or 222 mcg of Synthroid, then the problem is usually low

> adrenal fucntion, anemia or some other deficiency or weakness in the

> body not allowing it to be able to use thyroid. In this situation,

> thyroid dose raises need to be very tiny and you will need to wait

> longer between them I was only able to make 1/8 grain raises every 4

> weeks.

Just what do you mean... " were only able to " ...I mean what happened " Was it

because you felt worse, or did you get deathly ill or what. Just crasha nd

burn tired??? I am asking so I might understand any symptoms I may or may

not get/have.

>A typical person with few adrenal problems can make 1/4 grain

> raises every two weeks. In adrenal fatigue, you will have to wait

> untill you are stong enough before antother dose raise and if you

> have a lot of trouble with a dose raise, then you might have to

> occassionally drop back down for a while untill you can handle going

> up again. It takes 4 months to two years for the adrenals to fully

> recover normal function. It takes the body some time to adapt to

> faster metabolic rates caused by thyroid medications. You have to go

> slowly to give it time to recover before more dose raises.

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Okay. Money is so tight, I am getting my thyroid form the THYROID-S folks

and ordered the 1000 pill size so I would not have to worry for awhile.

Well, I got word from them a few days ago that they can not ship out until

Mar 21.

Well, I just got myself up to 4 1/2 grains, and my temps are starting to hit

some 98.? marks every day now.. But now I am gong to have to spread out the

pills so I am only taking 3 grains a day to be sure and make it until the

order comes.

1) Should I be concerned dropping from 4 1/2 grains to 3 grains for 2 weeks?

2) Is this actually a rest for my adrenals in a way..or will they be

struglging worse for lackof thyroid?

3) Can I jump quickly back up to the 4 1/2 grains as soon as I get them?

4) I have not been taking the CORTEF anymore. Would it be a good idea to

take a little bit spread throughout the day for about a week before the new

order comes?

> Doses of 3 to 5 grains

> or at least 222 mcg of synthroid up to 400 mcg of synthroid are

> needed to change the status of a hypothryoid person.

>In low dose

> therapy, the pituitary works to zero out low doses. In other words,

> when you take 1 grain of Armour, the pituitary will drop production

> of TSH to tell your thyroid to make another 2 to 4 grains or less so

> that everything remains the same in the blood. Doses less than 3 to

> 5 grains or 222 to 370mcg of synthroid seem not to work to make the

> peron normal and healthy and sometimes they can overly suppress

> pituitary function making the person even more hypothyroid than

> before medications.

How does CYTOMEL compare dosage wise?

> This happened to me. Having adrenal fatigue will

> often confuse the doctor into thinking you have adequate thyroid

> levels and this can leave you undermedicated and stop you from

> getting your dose up where you need to be healthy.

> http://thyroid.about.com/library/derry/bl11.htm

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> To monitor your progress with your thryoid treatment and to see if

> your adrenal situation is improving, check out the following pages:

> http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp

> http://www.thyrophoenix.com/self_monitor.htm

This above site is a good one. Thank you! My respitration has been real slow

for years now, and this gives me a glue as to why.

Late at night if I don't go to sleep until I am real tired, as soon as I lay

down, I feel like I am asphixiating or my heart isn't hardly working. This

will go on for a couple of minuites and then stop. Is this possibly a hypo

thing, or does it sound like anything you recognize at all?

> http://www.alternate-health.com/thyroid.html

This last website mentions the use of LUGOLS to treat thyroid. I know this

to be LUGOLS IODINE. (as it is indicated by Hulda CLark for some other

conditons) So is iodine goods for some thyroid folk and not others? I seem

to remember having read many posts about not taking iodine as it would make

hypos worse. Is there something I am missing here?

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FINAL QUESTION:

Why can't people get off of CORTISONE using licorice???

~Inga

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