How do I Know When I am taking Enough IsoCort??

[Guest guest]

Or maybe, IsoCort isn't enough for me???

Hey there,

How do I know when I have enough or too much Cortisol? How do I tell

when a palp is too much Armour, or not enough Cortisol.... Part of

my frustration was all the mixed stuff.. I was feeling like dirt and

my heart is tap dancing.. not all the time... but more than usual...

Now, it seems to have subsided..(with increase) so maybe I am

answering my own question...

arrrrrgh! Thanks for playing. Never Give Up! j

background.. long sorry:

I have been having a crazy,and for me discouraging, time with the

Armour/Cortisol balance. In Aug, I was finally starting to improve,

midlife change started rearing its head again, and I haven't been the

same since. I was having strong fast heartbeats and some palps, so I

decreased my Armour from 4 to 3 1/2 gr. It didn't take long to bonk,

so popped it back up to 4gr. But he heart thing was bothering me..

in Sep I ran out of IsoCort and it took me 3 weeks to get more...

difficulty with ordering... and not all that much motivation to

pursue like I should have...

I am wondering maybe I need more Cortisol? HC or something. I have

had a real bad past two months.. wanting to do something, but the

palp thing would happen whether or not I took my medicine (The last

month, I was a mess, couldn't remember to take my meds to safe me -

literally) Is it Too much Armour, too little cortisol...??? Just

unstable methodology?

I am assuming that the sensation of my heart tap dancing in my chest

is palps??? Or is that something else..? Seems to run in the

family... Sometimes, I can feel it in my throat, and cough to stop

it... maybe it's indigestion.... I don't know.

In November, I got the fall allergy crud, but not quite full blown

bronchitis.. Thank you IsoCort? and slow to recover, I would notice,

good one day, bad the next.. but that could likely have been due to

my unstable method of meds taking... I could get up to take the

Armour and completely forget and move to something else, and 3 hours

later, not know whether I took it or not... bad brain dump...

I recently upped to 4 1/2 grains.. my Christmas present to myself.

And things are slowly improving.. I am not there yet... but... am

much better... I want to say the palps less this past week since

increase...

[Guest guest]

Hey there, Thanks for your input. It is always nice to know that

that I'm not alone and there answers that aren't shoulder shrugs...

It's been a crazy 2 mos. plus I wanted to ask about it, but with

things being so all over the place, I wasn't exactly sure what to

ask... And dumping, putting the thought process into it wasn't going

to happen... Of ocurse, as I am feeling better, here I am... tada...

Never Give Up! j

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> I started on Isocort doing 4 pills in the morning with food and 2

at noon and 2 at dinner this is they tell me 20mgs of cortisol. I

don't think so I switched to HC 10mgs in the morning with food and 5

mgs at noon and 5mgs at dinner wow what a difference in how I felt.

Do you take you temps and chart them this will show you how your

Adreals and Thyroid are doing.

> http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp#directions

> I had the same problem with Isocort they told me it was on back

order so I told my Dr. I can't trust this and he gave me Cortef.

> Phil

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[Guest guest]

Thats great your feeling better me too.

Phil

mzjaku wrote:

Hey there, Thanks for your input. It is always nice to know that

that I'm not alone and there answers that aren't shoulder shrugs...

It's been a crazy 2 mos. plus I wanted to ask about it, but with

things being so all over the place, I wasn't exactly sure what to

ask... And dumping, putting the thought process into it wasn't going

to happen... Of ocurse, as I am feeling better, here I am... tada...

Never Give Up! j

........................

> I started on Isocort doing 4 pills in the morning with food and 2

at noon and 2 at dinner this is they tell me 20mgs of cortisol. I

don't think so I switched to HC 10mgs in the morning with food and 5

mgs at noon and 5mgs at dinner wow what a difference in how I felt.

Do you take you temps and chart them this will show you how your

Adreals and Thyroid are doing.

> http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp#directions

> I had the same problem with Isocort they told me it was on back

order so I told my Dr. I can't trust this and he gave me Cortef.

> Phil

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