Re: Adrenal questions, adrenenalin shots

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Kathy,

How are you measuring it? Do you use a gram scale?

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> Hi ,

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> If you took it at 2:30 it would have worn off by 6:30 if the 4 hour

> thing for oral is correct. One interesting thing that I read on the

> adrenals group is that someone said that using the correct dose of HC

> during the day can do something to your ACTH (I am not sure if those

> are the correct initials) and then cause your nighttime cortisol to be

> even lower. I am thinking that maybe something similar was happening

> to me, because all of a sudden with the HC cream I was feeling good in

> the daytime but not sleeping well at night. But before the daytime HC

> cream I was sleeping fair at night.

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> After my experiment last night with the HC cream I am convinced that

> at least with me that those adrenalin zaps are from too low cortisol.

> I am wondering if HC cream at night like I used last night may be a

> better option than oral HC at night because it seems to last longer

> than 4 hours? If you need HC at night to sleep and take oral HC you

> may wind up waking up in the middle of the night and having to take

> another dose because the bedtime dose wore off.

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> HC cream can really wake me up though, so I think an important key for

> bedtime dosing is to take just enough for the zaps to go away and not

> feel too awake. Last night that was 2 mg of HC cream for me (or 0.2

> grams). I took it split over the course of an hour though, so maybe

> if I took it all at once I would need a little less?

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> Kathy

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