Guest guest Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 >>I feel taking that much adrenal support and ferritin should have helped more than it did. << Did you retest these two things to SEE what it did? I would highly recommend getting the saliva tests from ZRT for your adrenal problems which looked as though they might be severe. OTC adrenal glandulars are an unknown quantity of actual adrenal hormones, perhaps you need cortisol direct instead of just the glandulars? Your Ferritin should also be retested. *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.5 - Release Date: 1/26/2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 You don;t need a doctor to write a prescription for the test. You can order it online and they send the materials to you and you send the saliva samples back then they will send you the test results. *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.5 - Release Date: 1/26/2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 , Thank you for the offer. I don't think it will work for me as ZRT already sent saliva test to me in California. However, for anyone else out there in CA or NY, it would be so helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 In 1999 my neck was very enlarged. long story short, I ended up at an ENT. He said that he expected that I would need a portion of my thyroid removed. He said the swelling had been the nodules bursting. I had a thyroid ultrasound. then - I was so angry with my regular dr. that I never went back, and my new dr wasn't much better. Here we are in 2004, and I got a copy of my ultrsound report and my new doctor says, yes, your thyroid was very large, and about the nodules etc. so she sent me for another ultrasound last week. My thyroid is now normal sized with no nodules. The tech said that it is quite common for thyroid nodules and enlargement to disappear once treated. so - just as a personal experience - I never had the surgery they told me that I might need, and mine is now 'normal' (altho I can still feel that it is enlarged more than it used to be). I didn't know anything back then, and would have had it removed, if they would have pushed me to do it, but my doctor was still telling me it wasn't my thyroid - it was a throat infection, and that I just had to accept that I had CFS and Chronic Fatigue and get on with my life - duh Cris Thyroid Nodule Surgery Saw my endo last week. He felt my neck, said the nodule has doubled in size, and told me he was referring me to a surgeon-just like that. He got up to leave, saw my mouth drop, and said on the way out, " What's up? " I want to explore all options and alternatives before surgery. What should I do? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 well - to be honest, I don't know much except that I was eventually put on synthroid, but that wasn't even right away. I just had an ultrasound again, and I have nodules, but my thyroid itself is supposedly normal size now. My dr. isn't concerned about the nodules - they are small. They do suspect that I had nodules that burst the first time - prior to the first ultrasound. I would just ask them to wait and monitor it for a while to see what happens. I suspect that if I was to become optimally treated, mine would calm down more. Cris Thyroid Nodule Surgery Thanks for your story. How did they treat your nodule that made it shrink? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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