Re: achey legs

[Guest guest]

Hi lynda is deltacortril a prescription?? I did a search and thats what it

come up as

[Guest guest]

Go to LINKS and check out ZRT labs--they have a 24 adrenal test. Also

while you are at it, get your FERRITIN checked. Low Ferritin can

cause similar issues, and hypo folks often have low Ferritin.

Janie

>

> > had no problems going to 90mgs and then no problems at the

> > start when I went up to 120 mgs which I take in a divided dosage

of

> > 60mgs twice a day.I just started noticing this the other day and

I had

> > upped it 3weeks before this .

>]

[Guest guest]

This sounds very similar to what happened to me, and it happened to you at about

the same armour dose that it happened to me (around 1 grain or so, as I recall).

I would wake up in a panic, convinced I was having a heart attack (in fact once

I actually went to the emergency room). A word of warning: from what I recall,

if you do have adrenal fatigue, continuing armour may cause damage to the

adrenals (I just googled for a reference to this, and I can't find anything, so

it may be a hypo false memory -- anyone else know?).

Many people on this group have used over-the-counter adrenal supplements like

IsoCort with great success, but none of those did a thing for me. Only Cortef

(hydrocortisone) worked for me, and it worked in a big hurry, too. I did the

ZRT test (www.salivatest.com), and it did show something for me, but it was not

at all dramatic, and it took a while to convince the doc to let me try the

cortef (I think sitting in his office and quivering had as much effect as the

saliva test). My point is, don't expect any test you get to necessarily scream

" adrenal fatigue " at you. It's all so irritatingly individual, it's hard to

give specific advice. A friend knows someone, who knows someone, who heard a

rumor that hydrocortisone is available on the web somewhere, but I think he's

lying, and that would be a foolish thing to do anyway, because it's dangerous,

and bad, and self-treating is a terrible idea, but as long as you keep it below

15-20 mg per day, divided 3-4 times per day, with food, for less than a week or

two, you won't affect your own adrenal output, and you can stop if it doesn't

seem to work without having to taper off slowly. At least that's what my friend

said.

Of course I'm not suggesting anything, because I'm not a doctor. You can tell

that by the fact that I'm giving you credit for not being an idiot. :-)

HTH -- prr

nc2406@... wrote:

In a message dated 1/17/2005 12:10:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,

bcmc@... writes:

> had no problems going to 90mgs and then no problems at the

> start when I went up to 120 mgs which I take in a divided dosage of

> 60mgs twice a day.I just started noticing this the other day and I had

> upped it 3weeks before this .

>

ok..got it. it's so maddening when all of a sudden something goes haywire.

someone mentioned adrenal...and it could be that as the extra T4 kicked

in...you overloaded your system adrenal wise. And it still might level out.

The

only thing I can think of to check that is to back down again...stay there a

week or so..then up by 1/4 grain and see if that does it.

let's see if anyone has any other ideas.

cindi

[Guest guest]

yes, it is prescription med but you can order it online.

http://www.mastersmarketing.com/price_p_q.htm#p

look under prednisolone - then at the side it says deltacortril

Lynda (in the UK)

Re: achey legs

Hi lynda is deltacortril a prescription?? I did a search and thats what it

come up as

[Guest guest]

Potassium supplements are not something to take blindly, unless you know for

sure. They can be quite dangerous for the wrong person. This IS something

that has to be lab proven, or it can be a heart attack waiting to happen.

This is one thing that can be proven straight forward by labs.

Re: achey legs

>

> Betty, thats just what happens to me why dont you divide the dosage, and

take

> half/half, thats what I am doing, I think we both have a very weak heart

from

> this hypo, is your potassium low, my holistic doc told me to take 2 pills

of

> potassium a day, he says thats it helos control the activity of the heart,

> today I havent felt fast heartbeats so maybe its working, he said it

shoudl work

> within a few days, try those pills to see if it goes away

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