Adrenal vs thyroid

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It sounds like you've done your research, and that is a very good idea.

I can't really suggest anything to try with the CFS or fibromyalgia

because I am not familiar with them.

I'm glad to hear that you would not self medicate based upon the

recommendation of someone such as myself; at the same time there are no

doubt quite a few here who can direct you to other info to help you

educate yourself further. I'm still very much in the learning mode with

respect to hypothyroidism.

Good Luck,

Message: 14

Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:58:42 +1000

From: " Kerry Ann Faithfull " <kerry@...>

Subject: RE: Adrenal vs thyroid

HI - I couldn't agree more...probably just semantics -

subjective/objective - whatever works is what is best.

I don't think that any of us would self medicate based on someone

else's advice.....not so in my case at least - I self medicated because

I couldn't find an intelligent doc - now I have one but it was six years

too late. I would never discourage anyone from self medicating with

physiologic doses of natural hormones IF they do their own research and

IF they can't get help elsewhere....we are all responsible for ourselves

and our own health....I have a lot of compassion for those who are just

left for dead by the medical profession. I have a family full of medical

professionals and believe me they have little to no understanding of my

illness nor do they particularly want to find out....its sad really.

My experience with self medicating has been mixed - I have never had any

bad results in terms of dangerous side effects but I have not always

gained the improvement I expected either. I actually do better on

synthetic T4 and T3 than I do on Armour, I did well on low dose

Hydrocortisone and I am very happy with the improvements I have had

using progesterone. My doctor is just about to trial me on pregnenolone

to see if that will help my adrenals heal faster. I also have IV

vitamins every two weeks or so which keep me from being so exhausted. I

had remarkable results using T3 to cure my chronic depression and still

after two years I do not get depressed.

On the down side I still have relapses of CFS for no obvious reason and

these can last from a week to months and seem entirely separate from my

thyroid function. So although not everything has worked as well as I

had hoped I am still very glad I had the courage to try some different

therapies and to educate myself with regard to natural hormones.

If anyone out there has CFS or fibromyalgia as well and would like to

offer any advice or success stories I would love to hear from you.

Anyway good luck to you - I hope you are feeling better

Kerry

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