Re: internal shivering

July 19, 2004

> I have a long standing problem in getting my temperature up,

although I have managed to increase my basal from a low of 95 to a

high of 97.4

> The last few days I have had this internal shivering/shakiness at

some time in the day, usually around 11am but today it happened just

after I had eaten lunch at 12 noon. So, out of interest, I decided

to take my temperature. My basal first thing this morning was 97.4

but now it is down to 97.0 which is obviously why I am feeling this

internal shivering and yet I don't feel cold.

> I am taking hydrocortisone 5mg x 4 times a day and 3 and 1/2 grains

of armour split into 2 doses.

> Can anyone advise on the wisdom of increasing the h/c? I did try

to go up to 4 grains of armour two weeks ago but it seemed to be too

much. I suppose I could split my half grain tabs and try 3 and 3/4

grains.

> Lynda (in the UK)

You could increase HC for a short time and see how you do on it...I

know others who have done this and found it helped, then wnet back

down to the previous 20mg daily. Your body may be stressed for some

unapparent reason right now.

July 19, 2004

Hi ,

I believe Peatfield says that upto 30mg is ok, would you agree?

Lynda (in the UK)

----- Original Message -----

From: astrodiana

You could increase HC for a short time and see how you do on it...I

know others who have done this and found it helped, then wnet back

down to the previous 20mg daily. Your body may be stressed for some

unapparent reason right now.

July 19, 2004

This one I am very familiar with. Your cortisol is too low with

respect to thyroid. When cortisol goes too low, body temperture

takes a dive. I suspect the shivering has to do with the fact that

when cortisol goes too low, you no longer can restrict small

capilaries in the skin and the outer extremities. The result is that

excess heat is lost from the body and you feel cold in the trunk of

the body and cannot regulate your body heat well. Also, shakiness is

a side effect of low cortisol. Another symptom of low cortisol is

having shakiness and hypoglycemia after meals. Digestion of food

requires a lot of cortisol. Some doctors who specialize in adrenal

fatige recommend that patients lie down for 10 to 20 minutes after

eating because of this. Lying down reduces the demands on the

adrenals.

My suggestion is to either rest more or drop thyroid down a little

for a while or increase hydrocortisone a little or something to give

your adrenals a rest and chance to rebuild their stores. They have

become depleted from stress of some type or raising thyoid too soon

before the adrenals were ready.

Tish

July 19, 2004

Hi Tish,

thanks for your reply.

I have been taking 20mg h/c for 8 months now but I had already been taking

armour for a few months prior to that. I know that some docs recommend that

adrenal support should be given first before the armour. I did stop armour for

a week when I first started taking the h/c but I felt so awful that some of the

others here felt that I should start taking armour again.

I find that if I do anything that is the least bit physical (for example I

vacuumed the carpets this morning) makes me overheat very quickly - would that

tie in with what you were saying? I doesn't seem like very much effort but

perhaps because I have been ill for such a long time it is too much effort for

my body?

Yesterday I did a bit of weeding in the garden (only about 10 minutes) and even

that was too much. It also didn't help that I fell over backwards while I was

doing it and when I landed (on my derriere!) I hit the back of my hand on the

edge of a brick. No real harm done but it is very swollen.

I think I will try increasing the h/c to 30mg a day for a few days and see what

happens