Re: Linn

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Dana,

My doc started me on a very small dose of bio-id cortisol when I

first started taking Armour summer before last. I took it for a few

months and really didn't notice any difference other than it I felt

it made me wired, so I quit taking it and just stuck with the Armour

and progesterone. I ended up with the thyroid building up in my

system after about 9 months and felt awful, had some really nasty

heart arrhythmias and sever heart pounding at night, with lots of

aches and pains, muscle burning, etc. So I quit taking Armour

because of it, kept backing down the amount I was taking and the

heart symptoms just wouldn't go away. Was off from sometime in

February until the middle of July when I ended up with very low

ferritin, very bad symptoms of hypoT and in the hospital with what I

think was gall bladder problems that the docs thought was a heart

problem and then just basically collapsed. Went back to my doc and

told her all that was going on and she said I was definitely having

adrenal problems and upped my dosage of cortisol considerably. I had

found the NTH group right before going back to her and Val pointed me

in the right direction of starting HC, she felt that was what I

needed first and she was right on the money. I felt tremendously

better right off the bat and was able to increase my Armour dose with

no side effects and continue with the progesterone. No heart

symptoms either. I did add in magnesium though which I think helped

with keeping the arrhythmias at bay. I am starting to wean off

cortisol now after 3 1/2 months.

Don't you have iron issues too? Have you been able to find a way to

supplement the iron? That could be causing the weakness in your legs

feeling. I had that when my ferritin was really low. Have you ever

tried the Slow Fe brand of iron?

Are you still taking lots of pain meds? I take Vicodin for backaches

from my periods for a couple of days a month. I do notice when I

take those that I'm much more tired than other days. Have you tried

adding in any milk thistle to help your liver process everything?

That helps me and I've also noticed that I can take less meds with

it, it almost seems to increase how the Vicodin works.

on this list also has IC problems and has some contacts for a

couple of lists for IC, do you have any contacts for that? Maybe

somebody else with those types of problems might have more insight.

Also have you ever tried one of the online consultations? I did one

of those a while back and it was very informative and not very

expensive, about $35 I think. Gave lots of recommendations. Did

take a while to answer everything, a couple of hours. That's where I

learned about the need for magnesium.

Linn

> Linn,

> forgive me if I have this wrong but, are you the one who also resisted

> going on HC support, after many months of Armour? I ask bc I also

> resisted it for a long time and have now started Isocort. Can you tell

> me how you are doing with it? Have you noticed a big difference? And,

> if I have this wrong, forgive me! :0)

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> Dana

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