Re: Not doing well - GARY

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Thanks ,

I left a message with the doc's office. Hopefully I will get to talk

to him today or maybe see him tomorrow. I found a really good website

on Adrenal Fatigue. You might want to take a look.

http://www.drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/adrenal_fatigue.cfm#2

> > , and all,

> >

> > I took 1/4 grain this morning and HAD PLANNED to take another 1/4

> at

> > lunch thus giving myself half of the dose that I have been

taking.

> > But since I could have an adrenal issue, would I be doing myself

> any

> > harm if I stopped altogether since I have only been on 1grain a

day

> > for a total of six days, or should I wean myself down and have

the

> > doc address my adrenal situation?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

>

>

> You do not need to wean yourself down on the Armour..just

stop...this

> is what my doctor does with people who have adrenal issues. Yes -

> address the adrenal situation first. I am going by the Safe Uses

of

> Cortisol by Dr. Jeffries, and Dr. Peatfield's protocol he sets

forth

> in The Great thyroid Scandal. My doc is a friend of Dr.

> Brownstein and he also suggests you must stop the thyroid

> supplementaion until weak adrenals are addressed..The problem with

> some doctors - even IF they are willing to consider various states

of

> adrenal fatigue may exist beyond the extreme states of Cushings or

> 's, is that they mistakenly prescribe less Cortef if a

person

> has higher cortisol than they should any time of the day...you

really

> need the 20 mg Cortef a day or 5 mg pred a day to address this -

> unless you are going the way of natural glandular products or

> licorice root drops, which will work well, they just take quite a

bit

> longer. One of my sons did it naturally, but it took him almost 9

> months of lots of sleep, glandulars, vitamins and he was not

working

> or being stressed at all..the other son, teaching and in a PhD

> program had to keep pushing and so the doc put him on Cortef

(telling

> me it's the fast track to rebuilding adrenals) and I changed him to

> deltacortril because it is longer acting and therefore only needs

to

> be taken once a day rather than the Cortef - every 3 hours in the

> early part of the day - four times a day. The various ways will

> work, because the adrenals are resilient, but you need to be

patient

> and not expect immmediate results. Let us know what your doc

> thinks.