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Posted 7/22/2012 10:21 AM (GMT 0)
I just thought I'd post an update. I am in the 2nd week of Florinef/Cortef in VERY low physiological doses. The first week I felt no effects on energy. I literally have not been able to make it through the day lately. I am struggling to make it until about 2:00p.m. and then I was falling asleep until 8:00p.m and then back asleep from 10:00p.m. until morning. All day I was exhausted as well.

I have found that if I take my 2nd cortef BEFORE I start getting really tired it seems to work. I did not fall asleep this week during the middle of the day. Yesterday I made it until 10:00 p.m. and I have been able to go running after my IV more than usual.

I hope it keeps working, but I worry that I'm just covering things up lately and not solving the problem. For example, I am now having to take over 2000mg of magnesium to keep twitching at bay and it still returns. It used to take only 250mg. The same goes for the glutathione. It helps my pain and numbness, but only for 2 days and then it creeps back.

Does anyone here use cortef/florinef? Is this something you need to stay on for life? I am worried about damaging my adrenals further and being more exhausted when I try to go off it. I don't know if I should stay on or not. It's nice to have a break from exhaustion, but how will I know when Lyme treatment is working if I'm covering all the symptoms up temporarily?
Posted 7/22/2012 6:50 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, I have been on cortisol (low dose 2 x a day a.m. & p.m.) for a couple of months now too for my low adrenal function. I have found since I started it that I can now take a small dose of Armour for thyroid without making me feel worse. It also has increased my energy and most days it has really helped my dizziness and brain fog. I too have lots of twitching in my muscles. But the fatigue and brain fog are the hardest symptoms to deal with at work, so I assume these drugs are helping. I also started acupuncture a month ago which I believe also gives me temporary relief of some symptoms. With no cortisol you have no quality of life per my hormone MD so I felt I had to try it...and my testing indicated very low adrenal function and very low thyroid hormone..fatigue, hair loss, muscle tensing, brain fog are all symptoms of low adrenal. It is confusing to know what causes what symptom.

I hope you get some relief soon.

Take care
Posted 7/22/2012 9:25 PM (GMT 0)
It actually HAS been working surprisingly well in the second week............up until today where I had a rough day. I overdid it this week when I had a few good days (energy wise) and today was a disaster. I could have slept all day today. Instead I'll just sleep now at 5:30 p.m. :(
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