Need to adjust HC rhythm

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Well, now that I'm back on the .25mg of klonopin and on 1 1/2 grains

of Armour with nice steady temps at 98.1 - 98.2 or so, I would like to

nudge the Armour up again, but I feel like I need to hold here until I

get off of this antibiotic and get my sleep patterns hammered down a

little better. I moved the bed-time dose back to 8-9PM and, as Val

predicted, I'm waking up between 4 and 5AM hungry and unable to get

back to sleep until after 6AM with less than an hour before I have to

get up for work. This is right back where I started a week ago before

the wheels really came off and I couldn't sleep at all for four or

five days so. I'm getting up at 4:30 and taking 2.5mg of HC but, as

Barb has found out with her husband, once we wake up that way, getting

back to sleep is impossible. So, I guess that my choices are to try

to set the alarm for 3AM and take the 2.5mg of HC then as Barb's

husband is doing and/or move that evening dose back to bed-time

although I know that it will cause GI problems and that it will only

hold until 6-7AM at the best and I would like to find a way to sleep

longer than that through the holidays. I'm also finding that even

with the 2.5mg at 4AM, I'm having a hard time waking up and that I'm

tired all morning, congested until the 8AM 10mg dose kicks in, and a

little dizzy in the AM although not too bad. I know that these are

all low cortisol symptoms which means that I need more night time

cortisol.

I'm dosing 10mg/8AM, 10mg/noon, 5mg/4PM, 5mg/8-9PM, and 2.5mg/4-5AM

for a total of 32.5mg. As long as I'm on 32.5 anyway, should I go to

10/10/7.5/5 at bedtime and hope that it will hold me longer? I'm also

considering trying the cream just at bed to help with the GI upset.

Thanks, thanks to Val as always, and Happy Holidays to everyone.