Re: Lynda...adrenals

[Guest guest]

>>I have times where my muscles will go

weak and I get soooo sleepy. If I lay down for 15-30 minutes it seems to

help and it goes away sometimes. Do you know why these occur?<<

This sounds like a typical thyroid crash! Just running out of T3. I used to do

that all the time in my pre-Armour days. Increasing my dosage and splitting them

has stopped this. I would even do this sometimes on 4.5 grains a day when I was

dosing 2 times a day then I broke my dose up to four times a day where I have no

more " slumps " as I call them. Mine had nothing to do with adrenals. It felt like

suddenly I couldn;t raise my arms, legs or stay awake. A nap always seemed to

help, but sometimes my naps ended up being 3-5 hours. I hardly ever nap now!

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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[Guest guest]

<<First off hypoglycemia is adrenal related. I was diagnosed in

1987. So my adrenals were not working properly as long ago as that

and I can even remember back in high school when I got really hungry

and did not eat I would get so sick I would throw up. That's all

adrenals not functioning properly. >>>

For what it is worth, I have had episodes of hypoglycemia since

starting Armour 7 months ago. They are usually associated with

changing my dose (either going up or down) and are very related to

eating carbos alone. I have some degree of adrenal fatigue, and I

figure in my mind that the hypoglycemic reactions are one way my

adrenals demonstrate they don't have much reserve. They don't seem

to adjust easily to either an up or down dose of thyroid, and the

two glands work together.

I have had great success in making myself always eat protein at all

meals and snacks, mostly eating it first before any carbs. My

hypoglycemia also seems to be helped tremendously by taking chromium

at each meal, until I am no longer having the hypoglycemic

reactions, and then I take a little less.

I would also agree if your doctor is telling you that you are going

to be very sick for 2-3 months when you come off of Cortef, that

doesn't sound like a real positive plan! Other doctors talk about

gradually coming off of it, and boosting other supplements at the

same time to ease the transition.

Also, lots of people are put on steroids routinely in adrenal

suppressive doses (like my husband) for inflammatory conditions, and

it is possible to get off of them, so I would think if you are on

Cortef you can get off of it successfully.

R.

[Guest guest]

<<First off hypoglycemia is adrenal related. I was diagnosed in

1987. So my adrenals were not working properly as long ago as that

and I can even remember back in high school when I got really hungry

and did not eat I would get so sick I would throw up. That's all

adrenals not functioning properly. >>>

For what it is worth, I have had episodes of hypoglycemia since

starting Armour 7 months ago. They are usually associated with

changing my dose (either going up or down) and are very related to

eating carbos alone. I have some degree of adrenal fatigue, and I

figure in my mind that the hypoglycemic reactions are one way my

adrenals demonstrate they don't have much reserve. They don't seem

to adjust easily to either an up or down dose of thyroid, and the

two glands work together.

I have had great success in making myself always eat protein at all

meals and snacks, mostly eating it first before any carbs. My

hypoglycemia also seems to be helped tremendously by taking chromium

at each meal, until I am no longer having the hypoglycemic

reactions, and then I take a little less.

I would also agree if your doctor is telling you that you are going

to be very sick for 2-3 months when you come off of Cortef, that

doesn't sound like a real positive plan! Other doctors talk about

gradually coming off of it, and boosting other supplements at the

same time to ease the transition.

Also, lots of people are put on steroids routinely in adrenal

suppressive doses (like my husband) for inflammatory conditions, and

it is possible to get off of them, so I would think if you are on

Cortef you can get off of it successfully.

R.

[Guest guest]

What types of proteins do you eat at meals? I can only eat chicken or turkey (no

meat or fish). Can't eat soy products or dairy products either...allergies. So

that leaves mainly chicken or turkey & that's it.

I worry about that tho because there's no avaialability of organic or range-free

chickens/turkeys around here. And I know there's hormones injected into all

other chickens & turkeys raised for slaughter. So the hormones in them can upset

my own hormonal imbalance just as much as the hormones injected into other meats

from cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. can affect us adversely.

So getting the right kind of protein in me is a really difficult problem as I'm

hypoglycemic too. The only other kind of protein I can think of is in

vegetables...leafy greens I guess mostly or beans mainly. Specially in

Spirulina, blue green algae & wheat grass. But that stuff doesn't make a meal

very filling or satisfying.

From: mydgtd

<mdstephenson@v...> wrote:

<<First off hypoglycemia is adrenal related........I have had great success

in making myself always eat protein at all meals and snacks, mostly eating it

first before any carbs. My

hypoglycemia also seems to be helped tremendously by taking chromium

at each meal, until I am no longer having the hypoglycemic

reactions, and then I take a little less.