Re: Re: raising meds when it is cold-Iron ?

January 8, 2004

Well back in June a DR I went to see found my aldosterone VERY low through a

urine test. he ignored it. When I went to Friedman, he made me go two days no

salt and did blood. It and the renin were VERY low. Yesterday was day 1 of a

full pill a day. I noticed no difference till yesterday except I have had a

funny smell to my urine for a few years and that was gone. Yesterday I went to

the bathroom so much that I think my electrolytes are off. My legs were cramping

in the middle of the night and I awake with a headache I can't get rid of. Aside

from the stuff I have mentioned, I feel no different. It is supposed to help my

low blood pressure. I have noticed nothing there, but then I don't take it. He

upped my Armour 15 mg when I was there and I just raised it 2 weeks later

another 15. I am waiting for 2 midnight saliva tests to come back. My am

cortisol after driving 2 hours and being angry at 9:30, was 9, pretty low. I was

dxed with hyoreneinism and hypoaldosterone. I have had many people say he does

that a lot, but I knew there was an issue with that before, so that is why I

went to him. As far as they Armour, he was going to add some t4 to me, but my t3

was so low, he raised the Armour. I also made it quite clear that I have heard

some good results on people mixing the t4 with the Armour when they have an

issue with high t3 not t4, but I would let him know what I wanted after the

tests. He right away said my t3 was too low, so like I said upped me. I have

brown patches of hyperpigmentation on my gums and abdomen striations too.

Re: Re: raising meds when it is cold

Jamy, when do you take the iron in relation to your meds? I've been

taking mine about an hour before bed time... that way it has the run

of

my system during the night.... it's doing well for me....

... I'll explain what I base that on... All my life I've had to watch

to

make sure that I get enough Iron.. for me, when I'm in need of it I

crave

Brussels sprouts and beef liver.... This is the second time that I've

gotten beef liver and cooked it up and comfortably divided it up into

several mini-meals. In the past... I'd sit down and eat all the liver

in

one batch.... just wolfed the stuff down.... When I got some in

November,

I was still in wolf mode.... but when I got it in December I stretched

it

into 13 meals (2 pounds of it) and the batch that I got this week was

just a bit less than a pound and I got 4 meals out of it... No NEED to

wolf it all in one fell swoop....

So my body is doing much better. I'm doing (rats, don't have the

numbers

in front of me.... ) 100% of the RDA in my multi-vitamins, those are

divided up into 8 pieces, one taken with each mini-meal during the day

and one an hour before bed time when I take a half tab of a tablet

that

is 365% of RDA....

My thyroid meds are still doing okay... My thyroid is non functional

(killed by RAI) and when I went up the 3 grain last month I went

hyper..

so the iron is not binding the thyroid doing it this way....

... my hyper state is over BTW... I'm feeling great again. Normal

appetite... back to convincing myself to not skip any of my mini-meals

so

that I don't lower my metabolic rate as I continue to lose weight!

Big Grin!

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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:14:43 -0800 " JAMY "

writes:

>

> I am going to add 15 mg more of Armour. I am also taking a lot of

> iron since I am anemic, so that is blocking my meds.

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January 8, 2004