Re: Re: Gail's thyroid tips

[Guest guest]

Oh! Poor M - she's so young and to have to deal with all this is a shame. Wish

she could just concentrate on being a college student.... Thankfully, she has a

Mom who truly has her best interests at heart and is working so hard to get her

well!

I too found Gail's site extremely informative - the information there is

wonderful, as Sheila mentioned it'll take a while to go through it all. I now

KNOW I have adrenal issues and knowing is part of the battle.

take care,

>

> From: " tina83862 " <tina83862@...>

> Date: 2004/03/01 Mon PM 04:55:33 EST

> hypothyroidism

> Subject: Re: Gail's thyroid tips

>

>

[Guest guest]

Tina, if she is at 60 mg of Armour it is too little. All the vitamins in

the world won't help if she is not on the right dose. Sounds like she

needs more thyroid.

Gracia

> Yesterday she had another melt down--where she calls crying like

> crazy. She has 3 finals on Friday and she doesn't think she will do

> well. She was frantic on the phone. This quarter (10 weeks) to learn

> some very tough classes and she is not herself, worried over the

> weight gain--she is still gaining now at 145ish most likely for a 5/1

> this is not good.

[Guest guest]

tina wrote:

<<<thanks for asking--sometimes I do need to vent as well!!!!>>

Yes, venting is good!!!! M is so lucky to have a mom like you - wish I could

come & stay - sounds so nice!!!!

I bet your insticts are right on with her health....you are such an inspriation

- so glad you have found some dr.'s in your area!!!!! Once you get her well she

will be able to date & have fun - what a wonderful thing to look forward to!!!

Will she be coming home for spring break?

take care, wishing all the best,

>

> From: " tina83862 " <tina83862@...>

> Date: 2004/03/02 Tue AM 11:58:32 EST

> hypothyroidism

> Subject: Re: Gail's thyroid tips

>

>

[Guest guest]

I took tons of supplements for 30 years----they only kept me barely alive.

She should simply try some extra Armour. If she feels worse then she needs

cortef. It is not a real complicated deal!!!!! You don't even need to

test!!!! These medicines really work.

Gracia

> Very well could be --but she needs testing so we can check. Many

> reasons why she has not upped her dose--she wants to cure this--

> taking more hormone will mean the thryoid will make less than what it

> does now. So she is trying to heal herself with all the nutritional

> supplements that the thyroid needs. Other reasons she is still very

> adrenal--so she is taking that as well--trying to find a balance for

> both of them to work together.

>

> If she were home we would do only adrenal again, I think we ended

> that too soon. What we did from Aug. to Dec. really worked. She got

> her period and now nothing since Dec. So the armour may not be what

> she really needs even though it is getting her though this time

> period.

>

> I think we needs much more testing, start adrenal therapy full time

> without thyroid--while giving iodine and thyroid support without

> hormone--get retested again and see our numbers.

>

> The adreanls must be more stressed this time because of the added

> thyroid hormones--or else she would be getting her period. Adreanls

> are directly related to her female hormones. M's condition is not the

> typical thyroid patient for she is very mixed adrenal/thyroid and now

> she has yeast which is very immune related. She may very well have

> auto-immune problems that went undetected from her tests in that case

> she will be on hormones much longer---maybe forever.

>

> But the chance that this started from her adrenals based on her diet

> and t3 problems indicated it started from adrenal fatigue which led

> into thyroid.

>

> The chance at curing this is there even though it's slight--we have

> to try.

>

> The thyrodine; even though it's more hormones is not just thyroid--it

> hits the majority of other endocrine glands, she has now added that

> back into her diet.

> As well as the isocort.

> For the weight gain the digestive enzymes should really help, she

> should of been on them the entire time.

>

> She needs much more C for the yeast as well.

> Her tempertures are better and her blood pressure is up so this is

> better than what she was before.

>

> We talked a lot about adding more armour and she does not want to do

> that. She wants to target all of her glands since she is so mixed.

>

> It's very difficult to judge that is why she must get new tests so we

> can see what she is compared to what she was.

>

> In my mind I think she has to try the cortef for 3 months--get that

> adrenal healed or else all of this is just chasing and bandaiding the

> real problem.

>

> -- In hypothyroidism , " Gracia " <circe@g...> wrote:

> >

> > Tina, if she is at 60 mg of Armour it is too little. All the

> vitamins in

> > the world won't help if she is not on the right dose. Sounds like

> she

> > needs more thyroid.

> > Gracia

> >

> > > Yesterday she had another melt down--where she calls crying like

> > > crazy. She has 3 finals on Friday and she doesn't think she will

> do

> > > well. She was frantic on the phone. This quarter (10 weeks) to

> learn

> > > some very tough classes and she is not herself, worried over the

> > > weight gain--she is still gaining now at 145ish most likely for a

> 5/1

> > > this is not good.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In my experience, self-treating, I needed to get the right dose of Armour

right away to feel well. But she might need real adrenal meds once she has

real thyroid meds. There is a big difference between OTC glandulars and

meds.

Gracia

> She did add more armour and felt too hyper--took one grain in the

> morning--I think she got scared--problem is she should have not

> jumped up from a half to one so fast.