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Interesting thread…Im on 15mg HC day (10 upon waking and 5 in afternoon) but am thinking about bumping it up. On 7 grains of Armor Thyroid and dont feel a thing from it, never anxious or hyper, no anxiety, etc…and not dropping anymore bodyfat…
Earlier people were speaking about IBS, in the middle of what was probably my adrenal crash, my IBS type symptoms were so bad they were thinking I had chrons or colon cancer…it was bad…but no matter how many blood tests, endoscopies, and colonoscopy biopsies they did, could never find anything…I got medicated on so many digestive meds, anti biotics, etc over a 3 years period making me worse and worse, and thats at many different hospitals all adding to the misery…
Thankfully after about 6 months off all medications and doing all supplements and hormones instead, all of the IBS symptoms are gone…3-4 years of hell and being told I had a disease, 6 months of supplements and hormones and all that is gone…
So yea Id agree from my experience, that IBS like symptoms somehow go along with Adrenals crashing…as well I had recurrent upper respitory infections, which they back then said had nothing to do with the GI infections, and gave me additiional anti biotics…Id have “colds”, severe head or chest infections, that would go on for 4-6 weeks, and come back in a short amount of time…
Im feeling so much better…just wish I could dial in why Im on so much thyroid and it doesnt seem to effect me, like if it was working wouldnt I at some point experience all this anxiety and hyper feelings people talk about, so Id know to back off the dose?
how did you get to 7 grains? was it slow and steady, say increasing 1/2 grain every 2 weeks?
you may need the 7 grains. a woman i have heard about takes 16 !!
have you had blood tests to show where your ft3 and 4 is ? if they are high in the range then this says your dose is perfect for you.
what temps do you get in the morning on waking?
what is your HRate. if all is still the same as when you were on a lower dose then that is good. it really pays to monitor the body to see how increases affect you.
It really is hard to monitor.
When i first got on ERFA Thyroid i hit 36.8C or 96.8F ideal body temperature on 3 grains but soon after few days temps crashed. Now on 20mg of HC and temps are still low but feeling much better. Might need more HC to increase the temps. Interestingly enough they are highest in the morning after sleeping 36.0C but then during the day don’t hold and go low.
I need the 3 grains to be in high normal range but then how much HC do i need 30mg? I don’t know if that is too high or what do i risk suppression is one thing that concerns me.
One thing that is very noticeable i regularly see some eye floaters and know this is related to adrenal issues. Anyone else have this problem?
Light was also blinding me the suns lights in the morning and afternoon now on HC i dont even need glasses when driving down a road and the suns in my face haha.
i dont use the forum that often as not much is going on here, but i will post what has happened to me recently.
i hit another brick wall and felt pretty bad for a few days. i wasnt sure if it was cortisol or thyroid again. i raised to 4 1/2 grains and felt better for a week. then i felt ill again. so i raised again to 5 grains and i feel fine again. however, i dont know if this will last.
It may be my body is working through the thyroid hormones and wants more. it seems that way at the moment. it could be poor adrenals, but temps seem pretty good. when ill my basal did drop a lot to 36.2c (currently a near perfect 36.5C).
So doing ok, but been a bit shaken recently.
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