Re: Vitamin B5 and Adrenal Metabolism? Help, Andy!!

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Hi

your story rang a bell with me. Please scroll to the bottom story of

this link

http://www.addisons-network.co.uk/enter.html

It is about a woman who hyper-excretes cortisol, and so needed to

take very high doses until she got treatment. This may be the case

with you.

Like you, I was severely hypoadrenal before I was put on adrenal

meds, and I found that when I first started prednisolone my body

seemed to suck it up like a sponge - almost like it was making up for

lost time. This may be what is happening to you, and it should

settle down as time passes. Or HC is not strong enough for you - my

hormone doctor put me straight on pred because he felt HC would not

be strong enough for me. I lasted a couple of days of adrenal chaos

on HC before switching to Pred, and got a much smoother ride. It

might be worth thinking about.

The other thing is - are you taking Florinef? If you need high HC

doses, you may need Florinef. HC has to do both the jobs of cortisol

and aldosterone if you are only taking that. Taking Florinef as well

may enable you to bring down your HC dose. HC and Florinef

definately work together - I know that when I increased my Florinef

dose I promptly had a thyroid dump, as the cortisol was finally freed

up to do its job of driving the thyroid hormones into the cells.

Hope this helps ....

Nicola

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> > I've been really researching to try and figure this out. What is

> causing me to use up my HC

> > so fast? If I know that, then Andy's book can tell me what to

take

> to fix it.

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> > Is this a matter of liver metabolism? I haven't had any liver

> profile tests done yet. (Probably

> > should at this point). But I have many signs of fast phase one,

> slow phase 2.

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> > Would fast phase 1 liver metabolism cause me to burn up all my

> hydrocortisone so fast?

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> > Again, would taking lots of Vit. B5 help? I started a B-50 for

the

> first time earlier today

> > (don't have B5 yet), and I was surprised to find my low cortisol

> symptoms stayed away

> > longer than usual. But then it wore off. Consistent w/what Andy

> says--B vit. capsules are

> > not long-acting.

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> > I just wonder what route to take to slow down my metabolism of

> hydrocortisone so I'm not

> > always hyper-dosing it. If this is caused by fast phase 1 liver

> metabolism, I'll jump into

> > taking the supps that help with liver (like Milk Thistle, which

I'm

> not currently taking), like

> > maybe more methylating agents?

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> > If this is just a matter of needing B5, then that's what I'll

focus

> on.

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> > Or maybe I just need to transition to Medrol instead of HC for my

> adrenal support.

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> > Gotta get this solved before my extraction in 2 weeks. I don't

want

> to become comatose

> > due to lack of cortisol during dental surgery.

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