I'm Up Past My Bedtime :-)

January 19, 2007

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well. I'm up to 5 grains - 3 in AM at 5:30AM, 1.5

at 11AM and .5 a 2PM. I'm a 15mg HC. 10mg at 5:30AM, 5 at 9:30 AM.

I had been taking another 5 HC in the afternoon but stopped that

awhile ago - about a month ago. I have no shakes or any indications

of hyper except I have an occasional sweat incidence after taking my

AM dose, but I've just gotten out of the shower at that time or blew

dry my hair and, oh yeah, I'm in pre-menopause. My afternoons at

work I find myself very tired and the drive home from work stinks.

Could be due to adrenals and not taking that afternoon dose but I'm

not sure. Need the experts here.

I'm still not well, or let's say I'm not where I want to be but am

better than I was 8 months ago. I'm not talking weight loss or any

of that stuff - I'm fat and look like I'm pregnant at the ripe old

age of 48. I want my brains back. I can be fat as long as I'm

intelligent. :-) Getting there, but not all there. When I did

saliva testing last year I was at stage 7, but I hate taking the

HC. Fear. That's why I am trying to wean myself off before I should

(weaning just from the PM dose). I also have low ferritin but last

labs showed I was heading up at 57 - which is great!! Next labs are

due in Feb. Frees were in the mid range last labs and even my endo

agreed that " maybe " I would do better higher in the range.

I'm not sure where to go at this point. Symptoms continue to be

brain fog and now I am having some difficulty getting off to sleep

since I hit 5 grains. However, when I hit that afternoon fog I just

want to go home and go to bed but I can't get to sleep. I am

sleeping soundly once I get there, thanks to the occasional

melatonin, but I'm uncomfortable not getting to sleep when I get up

so early.

I am wondering if perhaps I'm getting close to optimization and this

night time stuff is just me not being used to going to bed at the

pathetic hour of 7:30-8PM. Could it be that feeling better is

simply bizarre or am I missing something? Could I be hyper without

shakes, heart palps but feel wiped, brain fog instead?

Thanks to anyone who replies.

Kathy in NJ

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