RE: HC, adrenals, and Branched-Chain Amino Acids (whey)

[Guest guest]

- if there was no subsequent crash after the initial positive effect of

the whey, then it may just be that you are a person who needs a fair bit of

sulfur in her diet. I'd suggest looking up the " sulfur exclusion diet " on

onibasu.com, and trying it out. (This is the one most important thing that can

be done for symptoms, since sulfur is critical to functioning but too much

stirs up mercury - so you need to figure out where you balance point is. That

depends on whether your kidneys tend to dump or retain it.)

Dave.

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Posted by: " jennifer.robinsong " jennifer.robinsong@...

jennifer.robinsong

Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:10 pm (PDT)

Hi.

A comment and a question . . .

Comment: I finally got my D. O. to prescribe me some hydrocortisone! I had show

up

without an appointment and beg her with hypoadrenal crying, and she needs to be

educated on the difference between a physiologic dose vs. a suppressive dose,

so she was

HIGHLY reluctant to prescribe the HC for me, but she did. Just 10mg at 8 am

only, for 10

days only. I started the HC 5 days ago on Friday, expecting a noticeable

improvement in

symptoms, but no change at all in malaise, muscle weakness, low emotions,

postural

hypotension, confusion, hypoglycemia, etc. But then I remembered from AI that

Andy said

Branched-Chain Amino Acids help only IF you get supplementary cortisol. So . .

.. I made a

smoothie from the goat whey I have in the fridge (I have friends with goats who

sell the

raw milk and sell the whey if they get cheese orders). As soon as I had the

whey, and I

mean within minutes, I got that noticeable improvement in symptoms I've been

looking

for! Today is the best day I've had in weeks in terms of emotions and energy

level. While

I'm still dizzy whenever I go from sitting to standing, and I'm definitely

still not strong, at

least I had enough energy to take my 2-year old for a ride on the bicycle, and

I'm chipper

for the first time in weeks!

Question:

My doctor said this HC is just for 10 days, then with a four-day taper-down,

just to " get

me out of the woods " with my depression and dealing with the elevated stress

I'm dealing

with from my TMJ being out of place (I now have untreated TMJD and can barely

chew

anything and am bruxing every night in my sleep from it). In the book, Andy

says it can

help some people to do a 10-day course every 2-3 months, and that's the least

suppressive route dr's might try. I notice a lot of hypoadrenal people are

taking their HC

continually. Will I be in bad shape again after the 10-days of HC is done? I

don't even

think she dosed it right (I need it 2-4 times per day, and she said only at

8am). Is there

any hope that I'll be symptom-free for a couple months once I finish the 10

days of HC? I

think the whey probably won't help very much once the 10 days of HC are up.

Thanks.

Abrenica