OT cortisol repairing adrenals Re: Function better with less sleep?

[Guest guest]

> I'm a bit confused about the statement " be very careful about

> supplementing with ACE and HC... "

I said that because I supplemented with both these things before I

got saliva labs back. I ASSUMED I had low cortisol because I had all

the symptoms for the greater part of the day.

I felt better on all this support but put on about ten pounds within

a week of adding in ACE together with licorice root. I don't know if

it was the ACE or the licorice or maybe a combination of the two

causing my body to produce a bit TOO much cortisol.

This supplementation happened to coincide with some dreadful news, a

horrible day where I lost a big court case (about my MCS) and I

crashed, just hit bottom; My legs siezed up, my calves were so

clenched tight I could hardly walk for a couple weeks. That's when

this crazy weight gain happened all around my usually skinny middle.

I stopped the ACE and licorice root but have continued the 20mg HC.

Labs show I'm stage 4 and my daily cortisol burdern is oddly high but

it's all in the first period of the day (and the wee hours of the

morning.) The HC is getting me through the midday crash when cortisol

is extremely low. I take PS through the night to relax the cortisol

production and help me sleep. This is working well.

I realize that ACE has no cortisol in it. Licorice also has no

cortisol in it. But these things all together " seemed " to maybe

stimulate, for me, too much cortisol production. I don't know this

but have no where else to turn.

All's I know is my usually trim body is still a funny shape: I lost 5

lbs of the weight but have retained this strange " tire " around my

waist and my upper thighs are kind of swollen and lumpy.

Now it's one month after the adrenal crash and one month since I

stopped the ACE and licorice. I'm trying to take it REALLY easy and

keep stress to a minumum and only very light exercise as I've read

that these things make the cortisol stay in the belly fat. I read

that belly fat has like 4 times the number of cortisol receptors and

so when your body releases a whole bunch of cortisol all at once, the

belly gets the main load.

As I mentioned, I've been doing Dr. Rind's method of charting temps

to get adrenals straight (this is requiring 20mg of cortef for me.)

Now I am gradually adding in the sustained release T3. My temps are

stable and up to about 98.2. I'm up to 52.5 mcg of T3.

I REALLY want my old body back. Any ideas?

~robin