I'm also taking T3 for my thyroid. Not sure how much that is helping either, but the SAD this past winter wasn't as bad as the previous 4.
The problem with my doctor is that the medical establishment doesn't like the way he does things and they took away his power to prescribe. He is still much in demand in alt med circles and he travels around the country doing clinics even though he's in his 70s. A number of people on this forum have seen him. But it means that any tests I do have to be arranged privately. That puts a big crimp on things. I got myself a thorough sex hormone test at one point but it was wonky across the board, things being "up" when they should be "down" and vice-versa. I did try DHEA at one point and it made me worse. For me, I think I'm going to leave sex hormones alone and hope that with chelation and time they will balance out. My libido seems to be getting better. I was left with permanent sexual dysfunction after discontinuing my antidepressant but I'm making slow progress. My periods are still extremely heavy. I tried natural progesterone cream but that didn't help either.
I do have HC for stress dosing, but it doesn't help a great deal. Medrol is better for stress dosing, for me, but I have to use it very sparingly because my body quickly adjusts to having that amount and I go through withdrawal when I don't keep it up. It's a big problem when I'm ill. I don't actually like being on this stuff and want to come off it but it's been extremely difficult. Most of the time I get withdrawal symptoms which simply don't go away, no matter how gradually I go. I can't honestly say it's made a great deal of difference for me and it's caused me a number of problems. At the bottom of my adrenal problems, I believe, is mercury toxicity; though it got a lot worse when I withdrew from the antidepressant. I got additional problems then like sensitivity to light and sound, and heat intolerance. Those are very slowly getting better.
The only thing that's actually helped me has been chelation. Do you chelate?
