Re: Had another attack last night -

[Guest guest]

another thought occurred to me last night as I was lying awake (!).

I get this attack after a day of not enough cortisol. If I have

overdone it, then I get this pounding heart thing about 1 1/2 hours

after going to sleep, even with a bedtime dose of pred.

I view cortisol dosing as having to keep a car half full of petrol.

If you get down to empty, its not simply a case of filling up again

and off you go. For me, I have to keep the car half full, otherwise

I have problems, like these nighttime attacks.

It's possible that your daytime HC dosing is not enough to cover your

needs during the day, especially now you have raised thyroid, and

your body lets you know it at nighttime. My body absorbs cortisol

like a sponge - if I haven't had enough during the day, I can easily

take a double dose just to catch up and avoid symptoms and

a 'crash'. So if you run on e during the day, that bedtime dose is

not nearly enough, hence the crash.

Maybe Val has something to add, and everyone's dosing is different

for their bodies. This is just something I have noticed for me.

On that logic, you might want to increase your HC further... try it

and see?

best

Nicola

-- In NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS , " jasrich "

wrote:

>

> Hi Jung, I'm sorry that my bad experience with melatonin and the

> following discussion led to you discontinuing it and upsetting your

> own balance. From everything that I have read and what others here

> have said, it seems like everyone's mileage may vary on melatonin.

I

> am hypersensitive to everything now - probably thanks to my fried

> adrenals. I just didn't think about melatonin as a drug which was

> foolish. Val knows better than me, and I know that too much

cortisol

> is as bad as not enough so you might want to do as she says and

reduce

> your HC by a skosh. Don't go by how I feel though b/c I feel awful

> right now and I can't figure out why. If you read my latest posts

> you'll see that I'm still having night-time trouble having been off

of

> the melatonin for days. I think that my Armour increase has a lot

to

> do with how I feel right now but I don't know for sure.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

another thought occurred to me last night as I was lying awake (!).

I get this attack after a day of not enough cortisol. If I have

overdone it, then I get this pounding heart thing about 1 1/2 hours

after going to sleep, even with a bedtime dose of pred.

I view cortisol dosing as having to keep a car half full of petrol.

If you get down to empty, its not simply a case of filling up again

and off you go. For me, I have to keep the car half full, otherwise

I have problems, like these nighttime attacks.

It's possible that your daytime HC dosing is not enough to cover your

needs during the day, especially now you have raised thyroid, and

your body lets you know it at nighttime. My body absorbs cortisol

like a sponge - if I haven't had enough during the day, I can easily

take a double dose just to catch up and avoid symptoms and

a 'crash'. So if you run on e during the day, that bedtime dose is

not nearly enough, hence the crash.

Maybe Val has something to add, and everyone's dosing is different

for their bodies. This is just something I have noticed for me.

On that logic, you might want to increase your HC further... try it

and see?

best

Nicola

-- In NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS , " jasrich "

wrote:

>

> Hi Jung, I'm sorry that my bad experience with melatonin and the

> following discussion led to you discontinuing it and upsetting your

> own balance. From everything that I have read and what others here

> have said, it seems like everyone's mileage may vary on melatonin.

I

> am hypersensitive to everything now - probably thanks to my fried

> adrenals. I just didn't think about melatonin as a drug which was

> foolish. Val knows better than me, and I know that too much

cortisol

> is as bad as not enough so you might want to do as she says and

reduce

> your HC by a skosh. Don't go by how I feel though b/c I feel awful

> right now and I can't figure out why. If you read my latest posts

> you'll see that I'm still having night-time trouble having been off

of

> the melatonin for days. I think that my Armour increase has a lot

to

> do with how I feel right now but I don't know for sure.

>

>

>