[chronos]

Thanks for explaining things in detail.

I’m seeing a new anti-aging doctor on Thursday. Hopefully he can help me out with these labs. My inkling is that my adrenals aren’t properly supported; but I couldn’t find anything to suggest that breakthrough bleeding may be associated with this. I’ve been reluctant to increase cortisol support because I’ve been having problems with peripheral vision loss, which might be an indicator of high BS. This morning, and for the first time, my central vision went hazy as well.

Unfortunately, I had to go with the duphaston because I had problems with depression and/or absorption with different forms (ie. topical, sublingual, oral) of bioidentical progesterones. It also reduced the severity of breakthrough bleeding. Unfortunately, we don’t have prometrium in aus.

Thanks again.

[chronos]

Sorry that was what I meant. I went off thyroid extract, T and DHEA for about 4 hours… everything else (i.e. steroids) were left as is.

Thanks 🙂

[chronos]

I read that hypopits have a substantially higher risk of cardiovascular diseases and this is attributed to low growth hormone… so your Heart Dr. probably has good reason to be concerned. HGH replacement knocked me around quite a bit as well, taking it twice daily helped a lot. I think that the circardian spikes, which differs between males and females, have an important function. I suppose you can’t have everything.

[chronos]

Thank you both.

I really don’t fancy going of my meds for several hours but I suppose I don’t have much of a choice…. bugger ):

[chronos]

Thanks wondering… I was aware of that, but didn’t think it mattered if I took thyroid extract at higher quantities. You wouldn’t happen to know if it ‘preferentially’ blocks T3 for T4, or vice versa?

[chronos]

Yes, I take my cortisol, thyroid, DHEA and 1/3 dose HGH a couple of hours before rising. It’s made a massive difference to how I feel.

By problems with HGH, do you mean problems with balancing other hormones, or something else?

[chronos]

Thanks doc for the great analogy :). I find it much easier to visualize things. It is all very complex and I suppose I’ll never stop learning.

Phil, That’s really interesting about the IGF-1. My IGF-1 decreased after getting all other hormones optimized. But, in reality, I’m not sure if I’m GH deficient since my IGF-1 was low-normal. If you’re deficient in 2-3 pituitary hormones, you have a 90-95% likelihood of being GH deficient, so my thinking is that the odds are well against me.

The GH caused massive hormonal shifts. First, I had to reduce thyroid extract (armour equiv.), then I had to increase cortisol and move my first dose to a couple of hours before waking, then I had to add synthyroid, then after reducing DHEA (I was taking 30mg which is quite high for a woman) I found I was able to decrease my cortisol back to my original dose. 😮 I’ve gone from 4 grains of thyroid extract to 1.5grs + 50mg synthyroid. I still get brain fog, but don’t feel as hypoT as I did before taking GH.

[chronos]

Thanks Phil,

I’m glad it didn’t take 23 years to DX me; I don’t think I would have lasted that long. It still did take some time — 10 years — but it was the year or 2 leading up to DX that were really unbearable. Prior to DX, the numerous doctors I went to told me I was stressed or depressed, despite some rather alarming symptoms. In desperation I went to a psychologist — really, I thought I was losing my marbles. At one stage I didn’t sleep for a week. The psychologist put me on antidepressants and I had an extremely negative response. After about 7 consults, I told him I hadn’t menstruated for 7 years; he immediately picked-up the phone and arranged for me to see an endocrinologist. I just can’t understand why none of the countless number of doctors I saw didn’t do that in the first place. The symptoms were obvious.

Thank you for the link. I have a solucortef kit and medic alert bracelet, so hopefully I’m covered. Also, I noticed the warning about growth hormone treatment. HGH was on the last of my replacement hormones. Despite this, I still had to temporarily increase my cortisol dose. I found dosing the HGH twice daily (2/3 before bed and 1/3 at 3:30am) really helps. I now take my prednisalone at 3:30am too, so I don’t feel so terrible when I wake-up. I also went hyperthyroid and had to reduce the thyroid extract. Then I went hypo and had to add synthyroid. In addition, I had to start supplementing magnesium. So much fun — sarcasm :). Why aren’t you taking HGH? – especially since have a heart condition?

Thanks again 🙂

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