Checking adrenals, what tests?

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Hi Everyone!

What tests are they suppose to do to test if adrenals are shot?

I had my am coritsol tested and normal but still have symptoms of

adrenal: dizziness when standing, salt cravings, energy at night,

insomnia, etc. What tests should I ask for? Then what happens if

you have shot adrenals? He said steroids, that sounds scary?

Anyone know how long you have to fix adrenals before doing thyroid

meds?

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Anyone know how long you have to fix adrenals before doing thyroid

> meds?

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Do adrenal support for one week before starting thryoid. If you wait

longer, you can vecome more hypothryoid since adrenal cortisol

depletes thyroid hormone if you don't make enough.

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A 24 hour cortisol test is best, either saliva, urine or blood.

However, if you have symptoms you have it. These cortisol tests are

more geared toward finding total adrenal failure and so in adrenal

fatigue, it often comes back normal but at the low end or low at

just one time of the day. They are frequently indecisive.

You can do some at home tests for this:

Lie down and take your blood pressure lying down. Then stand up and

retake your blood pressure. If it drops any when you stand, you

don't have sufficient adrenal hormones.

Get a friend or somebody to hold a small bright light like a

falshlight in your eyes. Carefully watch your pupils for at least a

minute. If adrenal output is sufficient, the pupils should contract

and stay contracted as long as the light is there. If you have

adrenal fatigue, the pupils will contract and then slowly open back

up or flutter trying to stay closed. They may close and open, and

close and open, also in adrenal fatigue.

You don't have to go crawling to your doc or spend a bunch of money

on tests. You can just treat it and see it it helps. Just buy

IsoCort or Nutri+meds adrenal glandular. Typical adrenal support is

10 to 20 mg of cortisol a day in 4 evenly divided doses. IsoCort has

2-1/2 mg of cortisol per tablet, so you would need 4 to 8 a day.

Nutri+meds has about 4 to 5 mg per tablet so you would need 2 to 6 a

day.

Stay on it as long as you need and then be sure to taper off slowly

over a few weeks. It takes 4 months to 2 years for the adrenals to

recover. Long term adrenal support is not harmful. See

Jeffries " Safe Uses of Crtisol "

Tish

[Guest guest]

Anyone know how long you have to fix adrenals before doing thyroid

> meds?

____________

Do adrenal support for one week before starting thryoid. If you wait

longer, you can vecome more hypothryoid since adrenal cortisol

depletes thyroid hormone if you don't make enough.

____________

A 24 hour cortisol test is best, either saliva, urine or blood.

However, if you have symptoms you have it. These cortisol tests are

more geared toward finding total adrenal failure and so in adrenal

fatigue, it often comes back normal but at the low end or low at

just one time of the day. They are frequently indecisive.

You can do some at home tests for this:

Lie down and take your blood pressure lying down. Then stand up and

retake your blood pressure. If it drops any when you stand, you

don't have sufficient adrenal hormones.

Get a friend or somebody to hold a small bright light like a

falshlight in your eyes. Carefully watch your pupils for at least a

minute. If adrenal output is sufficient, the pupils should contract

and stay contracted as long as the light is there. If you have

adrenal fatigue, the pupils will contract and then slowly open back

up or flutter trying to stay closed. They may close and open, and

close and open, also in adrenal fatigue.

You don't have to go crawling to your doc or spend a bunch of money

on tests. You can just treat it and see it it helps. Just buy

IsoCort or Nutri+meds adrenal glandular. Typical adrenal support is

10 to 20 mg of cortisol a day in 4 evenly divided doses. IsoCort has

2-1/2 mg of cortisol per tablet, so you would need 4 to 8 a day.

Nutri+meds has about 4 to 5 mg per tablet so you would need 2 to 6 a

day.

Stay on it as long as you need and then be sure to taper off slowly

over a few weeks. It takes 4 months to 2 years for the adrenals to

recover. Long term adrenal support is not harmful. See

Jeffries " Safe Uses of Crtisol "

Tish

[Guest guest]

Usually they use hydrocortisone or something like it. Yes, it is a

steroid but it is not as dangerous as it sounds or as it has gotten

a reputation for being. Keep in mind that I don't have any personal

experience with this but I have read quite a bit about it because I

feel that it may be one of my big issues. (In the book The Great

Thyroid Scandal by Dr. Barry Durrant-Peatfield he suggests reading a

book by McCormack Jeffries called Safe Uses of

Hydrocortisone.) Hydrocortisone has gotten a bad wrap because of

situations where people were prescribed very high doses - more than

your body would have been producing on its own. In these instances

you can have very scary side effects. Dr. Peatfield says Cushing's

disease " though not especially common, ... is seen today more as a

result of over-medication with cortisone, which is used in high

therapeutic doses, for a number of conditions including rheumatoid

arthritis and related conditions, asthma, chronic allergic

disorders. " (p. 96) However, what I've heard being suggested is

physiological doses - a dose lower or very close to what your body

would produce on its own, enough to give the adrenals a rest but not

enough to make them dependent on the steroid. Another very good

book that talks about all of this quite extensively is L.

's book Adrenal Fatigue The 21st Century Stress Syndrome. He

also references Jeffries' book. In 's book replacement

hormones such as cortisol (hydrocortisone), DHEA and Progesterone

and Pregnenolone are discussed in Chapter 17 pages 217-221.

I hope this helps. If I can provide any more information please let

me know. I hope I wasn't being too nosey or presumptuous.

Have a great day.

Misty

PS I'm going to look up in the books about other testing and will

hopefully remember to post it all later. It will probably have a

heading like " Recommended lab tests for Adrenals " or something along

those lines.

Hi Everyone!

What tests are they suppose to do to test if adrenals are shot? I

had my am coritsol tested and normal but still have symptoms of

adrenal: dizziness when standing, salt cravings, energy at night,

insomnia, etc. What tests should I ask for? Then what happens if

you have shot adrenals? He said steroids, that sounds scary?

Anyone know how long you have to fix adrenals before doing thyroid

meds?

Thanks,