I have a new appointment with my holistic Doc next week. I have to ask him for a new cortisol test.


My last bloodtest was 19.12 2011 (I will get answers from the latest tests next week)

Vit D3 83 (50-150) (it should be at least 125)
S-ALAT (< 45) 36
S-Anti-TPO (< 35) 27
S-DHEA-Sulfat (< 7.5) 9.9
S-Ferritin (15-200) 65
S-Folat (> 5.7) 38.5
FT4 (8-20) 13.8
FT3 (3.6-8.3) 6
TSH (0.5-3.6) 0.03
S-Iron (9-34) 22.7
S-iron saturation (15-50) 34
Vit B12 (170-650) 492
S-Testosteron (< 3) 1.7
U-Aldosterone (5-77) 18
U-Free Cortisol (45-272) 119

Dose Thyroid: 2.25 grain/140 mg
Dose HC: 22.5 mg
Dose Florinef: 0.1 mg
DHEA 25 mg
Small amount of testosterongel, oestreogel etc
50 mg pregnenolone
Bloodpressure: I do not know the numbers, but my GP say it is like a 20-year old (I am 51) I will try to get the results from him
Heartrate: around 70


I think my problem right now have been an too low Thyroid dose. In my opinion, it is one problem with all the Docs I have used: they want me on a small dose of thyroid medications. One year ago, I felt wery well. I used ca 1 grain more thyroid than now. And I used more hydrocortison than I have been using lately. But the latest weeks I tried to rise my Hc, and started to sleep better (also combined with 5-HTP, B6, melatonin etc) than before. So I guessed that a part of my fatigue problem was a too low hc-dose. After chatting with you yesterday, Paul, I added 0.15 mg thyroid on my dose, and felt better in the evening. So I think I shall carry on with Thyroid and see if it will help to rise the dose.

Back to Docs and blood tests: My experience with holistic Docs is that even they too depend too much to bloodtests. My Doc talk about that you can't know if everything comes in to the cell. But on the other hand he says "Your FT3 is too high". Sic! It is not easy to be a non-medical person in this situation. So, I have been listening too much to the Docs demand to lower my dose in spite of a rising FT3, and not listening enough to my body talk

Adrenals: I have a long story from childhood, I will not tell my tale here. But I belive my adrenals have been struggling since early childhood. This is one of the reasons I want to try LDN. I have a feeling that I maybe will have to use HC for the rest of my life. But this is something I do not know. It is a guess. But not totally out of the blue