Maybe I'm not half-dead... but I sure feel like it.
The exhaustion is overwhelming, a trip to the grocery store and a load or two of laundry will wipe me out. The bigger projects get put off over and over again. My husband and I took a short 4 day vacation to Branson a couple weeks ago... a little shopping, saw some shows, toured a museum. More than I usually do, but not at all what should have been too much for a 40+ woman... but I felt incredible exhaustion the entire next week to the point that I could barely function. I think this may be more an adrenal problem than a thyroid-related one... but I am already on 40 mg of Hydrocortisone.. so I don't know. 40 mg is about the highest dose that someone with adrenal fatigue should take. For some reason I was feeling really good around the 11th of June... I had just raised the Synthroid.. was hoping finally to get some relief from the hypo symptoms. For me it seems the stresses of planning a vacation and then over-doing it gave me a setback.
The Growth Hormone stim test hasn't happened. After calling several labs and hospitals in my area, I cannot find one that can do this test. I have more hospitals to call, but am not feeling optimistic.
The diet was a bust too. I'm just full of doom and gloom today, eh? I did lose some weight initially, but the weight started back up when I lowered the Synthroid and even though I am back up to the dose I was while losing weight.. the weight isn't budging this time. I've pretty much given up on slimming down at this point.
Lydia (poster child for the Couch Potato)
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Don't give up yet. There's a lot you can do even with unhelpful doctors if you're willing to spend bit of money and experiment. I'm in the same boat you are, and I think you're just trying to put on a bright face by saying you feel only half-dead! Sometimes I think I'm a walking undead zombie lol!
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www.adrenalfatigue.org--These products made me start to feel...not better, but not so miserable if you know what I mean.
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www.oral-hgh.info--This is a spray HGH, supposedly the most potent available without a prescription. I don't know if it's helping me, but my uncle takes it and he's doing amazingly better.
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Naltrexone--This is a drug that was originally used for addicts, but in low-doses it really helps people with autoimmune diseases. I just started taking it and I think it's helping. It's not the miracle I hoped for, but it's taken away that bone deep weariness. I'm sure you know what I mean.
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hope all this helps
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Serina
Thanks so much for your comments Serina! It's nice to know that somebody is reading my blog! :-)
I've heard about the low-dose naltrexone and that is definately on my list of things to try if I'm not better soon. I doubt I'll ever get the HGH test that I need, so the spray HGH might just have to do. Thanks for the website. Does your uncle have Hashimoto's too?
I'm experimenting again. Even though I assumed I had a problem with T3, after reading about reverse T3... I started thinking maybe my problem is with T4 instead?? So now I am in my 4th day of T3 only (low 10 mcg dose).. the first 3 days I felt pretty wired and irritable. Today though I feel better... less muscle aches, more motivation and energy. I realize that the 'T3 only' route works for only a handful of people.. but I'm willing to give it a good try. I know that Armour, Synthroid and Synthroid+Cytomel haven't got rid of my hypo symptoms.. so who knows?
Check back at the end of the month and I'll give an update on how things are going!
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