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The answer is yes, the steroid will help your immune system. When you have an infection, your adrenals produce a lot more cortisol to help the immune system fight it. If they are underfunctioning, your body cannot fight the infection. I had colds that lasted WEEKS before I went on the Pred. Being freezing cold is a sure sign of low thyroid - do you take your temperature? Anything permanently below 37 is low, and a sign the thyroid is underperforming. You should take your temp three times a day to get an idea of what is going on. Have a look at this grid to see low thyroid / adrenal symptoms: http://www.drrind.com/scorecardmatrix.aspmost people are a mixture of the two - it sounds like you veer towards the hypoadrenal. You probably need to treat your thyroid as well - not with T4 only meds like Synthroid or Euthyrox, but a combination T3 / T4 med like Armour. Mercury toxic people can't convert the T4 to T3 - the mercury knocks out the necessary enzyme for this, so taking a T4 only med will at best do nothing, and at worse could really crash your adrenals. This is what happened to me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> If you are hypoadrenal and don't treat with HC or Pred, recovery is likely to be long and slow, because you don't really have the necessary hormones for your body to function. You can recover them with bed rest, good diet and NO stress, but we all live in the real world. Who has no stress these days? I have three kids, and that's enough stress to bust even healthy adrenals, never mind those which are spiked with mercury. Before I treated my adrenals I was doing the diet and everything, but slowly went downhill. I feel better and brighter than I did, though far from well. I think adrenal support is also necessary if you are chelating, as that is hard on the body. Even on the dose I am on, I only do one round of chelation a month - it's all I can handle and want to put my body through at the moment. I am concentrating on thyroid / adrenals and controlling the candida through diet, probiotics and oil of oregano. Hope this is of some help Tracy. Have you read the Amalgam Illness by Andy Cutler? He talks all about this course of action - ie treating the adrenals and thyroid to feel better while the body detoxes. Best Nicola
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