Hello Paul! I have some questions I hope you have time to answer.

[Vigdis]

My holistic Doc said it was almost Addison's. My GP said it was no point in a Synachen-test. So no test! The cortisol was in the bottom, but still in the bloody normal aerea.

Is there any point in taking Synachen-test now, when I use Cortison?

Ok! I will take a higher dose with thyroid in the mornging/late night

[Vigdis]

I have bought a BP meter today. I have had a low BP for a long time, checket at my GP each time. Today it seems to be high? 166 systolic 114 Diastolic. Pulse 78. Earlier I used to have a resting pulse on ca 70.

Norwegian:

Jeg har kjøpt et blodtrykksapparat i dag. Jeg har hatt et lavt blodtrykk lenge, fastlegen min sjekket det hver gang jeg var hos ham. I dag ser det ut til å være litt høyt? 166 systolisk 114 Diastoliskc. Puls 78. Jeg har tidligere hatt hvilepuls på ca 70.

Lommelegen om blodtrykk

[Paul Robinson]

I have bought a BP meter today. I have had a low BP for a long time, checket at my GP each time. Today it seems to be high? 166 systolic 114 Diastolic. Pulse 78. Earlier I used to have a resting pulse on ca 70.

Norwegian:

Jeg har kjøpt et blodtrykksapparat i dag. Jeg har hatt et lavt blodtrykk lenge, fastlegen min sjekket det hver gang jeg var hos ham. I dag ser det ut til å være litt høyt? 166 systolisk 114 Diastoliskc. Puls 78. je ghar tidligere hatt hvilepuls på ca 70.

So, this may be related to your medication possibly. You need to take the BP, temp and heart rate at different times of the day and see if it is related to your meds.

If someone is using the Circadian T3 Method and they do too good a job of boosting the adrenals then this can also push BP up - then the timing has to be adjusted or the dose size.

[Vigdis]

Thank you for your answers Paul.

Right now I feel it extremely difficult to have any idea if my cortisol is low or high. I feel like a wreck..


EDIT/Admin: This thread is translated into Norwegian by piri-piri. You can find the translated thread here: https://www.stofskifteforum.dk/showthread.php?t=14349

[Vigdis]

But Elbeth, my BP is high because of my adrenals/hypo condition. So Paul is right I belive: the solution is in the medication. To find the right dose and the right treatment. The last 2.5 years my BP has been more like low, or like my GP use to say: like a twenty year old...

And low BP is very common when you have adrenal issue

[Elbeth]

But Elbeth, my BP is high because of my adrenals/hypo condition. So Paul is right I belive: the solution is in the medication. To find the right dose and the right treatment. The last 2.5 years my BP has been more like low, or like my GP use to say: like a twenty year old...

And low BP is very common when you have adrenal issue

So this means most doctors don't not have the faintest idea about BP and adrenals. I have hypertension which should mean I have no adrenal problems.
My doctor didn't even think about testing my adrenals with saliva. He let me take a 24 hour urine sample to test the adrenals, though, and I think just because I was nagging.

- "You read too much", he said (meaning if you read a lot about sympoms, you think you have them too)

[Vigdis]

I do not know, Elbeth. Maybe it is possible to also have a high BP and adreal fatigue? The fatigue can be in different stages

[Vigdis]

I have been using a rather high dose of pregneolone the last month, 100 mg (before 50 mg). I have been at different sites and saw that it may be the reason to my high pulse and BP now. I stoppet taking pregnenolone for some days and will lower the dose.

[Vigdis]

Paul told me:

Many people do not understand conversion of T4. They think adding T3 will simply give them more T3. It doesn't work like that at all. This too is in my book. Even doctors do not understand it. Sometimes if they add T3 they want to reduce T4 - this is a mistake.

Adding T3 will reduce TSH. The liver uses TSH to determine T4 to T3 conversion rate. With a high TSH you get maximum T4 conversion rate to T3. With a low TSH you get the minimum conversion rate. Once TSH is zero the conversion rate cannot get lower and adding more T3 or T4 then always adds more T3 (but it could also add more reverse T3 - this is a different issue).

I am pretty sure I am on an too low dose with NDT/thyroid right now. The latest days I have felt cold, cold hands and feet. And ofcourse, the fatigue. Oh, yes, i have been here several times before. Why do I not discover it a bit earlier? I increase my dose.

And my early morning dose or late nightdose is going to be 1.5 grain or 90 mg NDT/Thyroid. It will contain 12.13.5 mcg with T3. 0.5 grain or 1 grain is a too low dose. The target is to make a change in the adrenals, and then it has to be enough T3.

Today I have also learned that people respond different on LDN. Some people have to lower their thyroidmedication. But other have to increase it! So I have to be observant for anything to happend now as an LDN'er

[Paul Robinson]

My holistic Doc said it was almost Addison's. My GP said it was no point in a Synachen-test. So no test! The cortisol was in the bottom, but still in the bloody normal aerea.

Is there any point in taking Synachen-test now, when I use Cortison?

Ok! I will take a higher dose with thyroid in the mornging/late night

No point doing a Synacthen now on HC.

But you can test cortisol on HC see my latest blog:
http://recoveringwitht3.com/blog/usi...drenal-support

If you suspect cortisol is high then you do saliva or blood cortisol test just before your next dose of HC is due.
If you suspect cortisol is low then you do the test a couple of hours after the HC dose.

Paul