Re: relapse - thyroid - michelle

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Thanks for sharing this important information. Couple

questions- what do you use for thyroid support? I tried Armour

unsuccessfully and now am on T3. My hypo symptoms still persist. My

doc wants to try 's protocol when I get more stabilized. Do you

think that Iodoral or iodine would be worth trying?

I'm post-menopausal & very low estrogen, so I'm sticking with estriol

until I figure out if its helping/hurting.

Thanks again - its always comforting to hear from those ahead of us.

Joy

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> Hi Joy, I've had several setbacks along the way.

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> I've done right around 70 rounds.

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> I can't exactly say what was what & when, but things that helped me

(YMMV):

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> I had a GI test done and discovered I was intolerant to gluten, had

too much bad bacteria

> and not enough good, and waaaay too much gut yeast. Fixed that.

Much better.

>

> Thyroid not optimal. Bad experience trying to find the right dose

of Armour, and ended up

> switching to thyroid support supplements with no Armour. Better.

>

> Adrenal stress. Need to eat better. More frequently. This is

still hard as I tend to go too

> long between meals, and end up feeling poorly. I need to exercise,

gently & regularly. It's

> a big mood brightener, but I frequently fall off the wagon.

>

> Sex hormones. For accuracy and meaningful results, IMO, do saliva

testing and not blood.

> It's very easy to OD on P or E and feel like pure crap, then it

taking months to get out of

> your system, meanwhile it's difficult to sort out what is what.

I've held off on taking

> progesterone until I can do an 11 vial saliva sample over the

course of a cycle to see what

> is going on. I'm 44 and perimenopausal.

>

> In the meantime, I started taking iodine. Very low doses, and

titrating up very slowly. I

> started on 225 mcg and I'm now taking 6 mg per day. I don't

understand how or why, but

> it seems that iodine helps correct low progesterone. My symptoms

of estrogen

> dominance have improved noticably.

>

> I did have a very, very bad month where the MD sent me home with

Iodoral and told me to

> experiment with it. I started out at one tablet per day and

crashed. Badly. Super low

> thyroid symptoms. I gave up on iodine, until I decided to try what

I described above.

>

> Recently, out of the blue, I started to have joint pain. Hot &

burning joints. Fingers

> swollen. Elbows very painful. I'm looking into possible

mycoplasma infection now, and

> eventual treatment with low dose pulsing tetracyclines.

>

> I have had slight chest pain at times too, and I've never been able

to pin down an exact

> cause. Each time it has happened, it brings me considerable

stress. When it's gone, I

> don't think about it. I suspect something to do with cortisol

levels.

>

> I've also had some emotional upsets along the way, y'know, Life

Happens type of stuff, and

> that is always hard.

>

> It's definitely been 3 steps forward-2 steps back sort of thing.

Keep looking for things

> you can investigate and improve on.

>

> Good luck!

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