Re: () CURRENT HORMONAL EXPERIENCE is interesting...

[Guest guest]

, my crashing is that the minute I leave my store after a great

day of work, I start yawning bit by bit..and my eyelids get really

heavy bit by bit....and by the time it's around 7 pm, I am SO SO

tired I have to lay down on the couch and sleep....and I feel SO

fatigued even when I have napped there for 30 minutes of more. I

might get off the couch at 8:30 and do some things, but I'm still a

bit tired.......

It's not normal. On my optimal dose of Armour, I could do the work

in the store, come home, and feel great all evening!! This is

different. And when I evaluate it, it's as if my adrenals MUST be

producing and producing all day to keep me going--I feel fine. But

the minute I leave...and relax.....wham. It's like whatever was

being produced all day......(cortisol??)..crashes to the bottom, and

I crash with it, including some depression.

So....I am figuring that since my progesterone may be really low,

and since the adrenals need progesterone to produce cortisol, my

adrenals are working double duty?? So at the end of the day, they

drop their production, and I drop in exhaustion??

When you talk about pulling out all the stops, perhaps you are

working beyond what your thyroid can provide, since you mentioned

not being on a high enough dose....so you tire..... In my case, I

think I am still on an optimal dose of Armour--I'll know soon since

I did labs last week. But, I am finally getting the whammy from what

my female hormones are doing, I think, no matter how optimal my

Armour is......

I've always been extremely sensitive to my hormones--for my entire

adult life, unlike all other women, I get EXCESSIVE fatigue and

achiness DURING my period, not before. And it's extreme. It didn't

change when I got on Armour. This time, it didn't go away after my a

latest period....and I've been crashing after work........and I

suspect my very low progesterone has affected my adrenals........all

a guess...

Janie

>

> What does the word " crash " mean, in your case? Do you feel sort

of ill,

> brain foggy, sluggish, or is it just a normal tired after doing so

much

> work? I've felt better lately, but still have my times, and I

know I'm not

> optimal yet on my Armour, but I'm slowly moving up there, very

slowly. I

> KNOW that I have adrenal issues, but can't prove them, since I

haven't

> tested, and I really have to be very careful during these periods

of high

> energy, as I will pull out all stops, when I'm working at work OR

at home.

[Guest guest]

, I wanted to comment that I so identify with your words below.

Before I got on Armour, I spent 17 years on T4-only meds, and at

least 6 years before that, forcing myself to rest.....and paying

horrible prices over and over again because what would happen to me

if I did any kind of activity or exercise. And I am filled with

personal energy. It was SOOOOOOO hard. I wasn't able to follow paths

that I wanted to follow, and constantly had to accept paths I would

have never chosen if I had had the physical energy to match my

personal energy........

On Armour, my life changed. But lately, I feel like I am back to the

above because of the change of life........and I don't like it one

bit.

Janie

>>This is why I have to MAKE myself rest, and

> when I got thyroid disease, that was pretty much decided for me,

whether I

> liked it or not, because of the nature of the disease and it's

connection to

> adrenal fatigue and the like. It's very boring to me to do

nothing or to be

> able to do nothing, or what I consider nothing, so there's where

the anger

> can set in with me. Then I get twice as sick from the frustration

of " what

> might have been " , or what I think I should be accomplishing, or

even what is

> in my mind that I HAVE to accomplish.