Nicola,

Thanks for the yahoo groups sites and other info. I also started taking Armour Thyroid recently, so this should be helpful to me. Luckily, I am being guided by my doctor with this, as he prescribed it to me. We have had to double my dose twice now, and it still doesn't seem to be helping. He says the next step is to get aggressive and take hydrocortisone......any thoughts on that? He told me to research about it, because he knows it freaks me and most people out because it is technically a steroid.

The problem is that I haven't tested for having thyroid problems....we're just going on symptoms. But I also have adrenal problems, which seem to be primary, and we are treating that at the same time....but the symptoms overlap so much, that I'm not fully convinced that I even have a thryoid problem. The tyhroid meds don't seem to be helping, but the adrenal cortex support I am on does help a little....I had to go about 10 days without the adrenal, but while still on the thyroid, and there was a difference. The adrenal hasn't helped a ton so far, but it makes it waaaay easier to get out of bed in the morning - it's almost a glimpse of energy, although not quite there yet.

If you guys have any thoughts on this for me, I'd love to hear them. I might push to get a better thyroid test done to see if I truly need the support. I don't exactly doubt that I do, given the fact that mercury tends to mess up the thyroid, but I just don't feel fully comfortable with the fact that I haven't had a test showing any problems with it, and the symptoms could possibly be explained by adrenal problems, which I would say I definitely have (although no test for that either). My doctor knows I am low in funds, and feels pretty confident that due to the textbook symptoms I have, that it's a no brainer to go with this route of treatment. So I am just trying to trust him in that decision and go with it, but I guess my neurotic side (and also the practical side that wasted waaay too much time treating just candida, when I had all these other problems to treat that I didn't no about) wants to make sure we're on the right track and are treating what is truly an issue for me. Yikes, long ramble. Well, let me know if you have any thoughts on this for me.

Thanks!!!
~Tia