HI Bex, sorry to hear your results, for someone that has been mercury free for sometime now, you sure do have all the troubles of mercury people…… Ho hum.
Just a note of caution, treating the thyroids and adrenals is fraught with dangers. Not because its dangerous in itself, it is in-fact easy, but because the doctors out there don’t know enough of how to diagnose you correctly and then how to treat you correctly……. So they make matters worse. Giving you synthetic drugs……..as ever…..then not monitoring you…as ever……etc
I’m sure your thyroid is low, as yr doctor said, but adrenals ALWAYS need treating first. ALWAYS. If you support and treat the thyroids before the adrenals then the extra thyroid hormones overload everything and you crash, which I’m sure you have heard people repeatedly talking about crashing when talking about thyroids and adrenals. You start feeling good…then crash to worse than before…and all because the doctors don’t know what to do. However, normal doctors don’t seem to know this, although they give the impression that they know everything and that you should not question them, ever. I know you already know this….but it applies to the hormones too, just as it applies to mercury and well…… lots of other things too.
So unfortunately you need to do your thyroid & adrenal homework yourself first. I must say I found it difficult to understand at first, but then I’m slow on the uptake. It is not difficult, but you do need to dedicate some quality time to reading about it, the odd article here and there just made it more confusing for me.
The links Cmlyon gave are excellent (good post!) and you should get reading.
I must say I had all the tests done……and I didn’t really learn much new from them. Not a complete waste of money….but near enough. (cortisol saliva test was worth doing) Your symptoms will enable you to figure out what’s wrong and what needs treating and how, just………just you need to know what the symptoms you have mean…….hence the homework you need to do. Which is just reading those links top to tail and reading 1 book.
“Adrenal Fatigue – The 21st century stress syndrome” by James Wilson
This book explains things fairly clearly and gives you plenty of things to try.
One thing you should start immediately is the temperature graph, all you need is a thermometer and print out the blank temperature graph from the Dr Rind link.
Here is mine. Normal people should have a temp of 98.6.
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http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.aspRead this link, take your temp and within 1 week you will know what’s happening to your thyroids and what’s happening to the adrenals. Once you know roughly whats wrong, it makes understanding the links and book much much easier.
Before you spend your money on tests, may as well do something that 100pct works, is easy and is free.
P.s. the Dr Rind website is also well worth reading top to bottom too.
P.P.s. what you are currently discovering is exactly what I discovered about myself…mercury screws everything up, which is why everything needs supporting.
P.P.P.s you can treat the adrnals and the thyroids together, but adrenals almost always need supporting in some way.
