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Posted 2/20/2014 3:01 PM (GMT 0)
Has anybody had any success using hormone replacement therapies? I'm suffering from terrible depression and anger at least twice a month. I'm not sure if it is the lyme or hormones? When I get like this, it feels as if something is grabbing ahold of me and pulling me down a black hole full of depression and at times anger, then it lets go and the next day I'm back to my old self. I feel crazy and have never had this before in my whole life cry Has anyone tried hormone pellets or creams, and if so, what has worked for you?
Posted 2/21/2014 3:14 AM (GMT 0)
Lymerunner, sometimes it is not only necessary to use hormone replacement therapies, but to also treat the underlying cause of the hormonal imbalance. For example, some people find that they can cut back on the hormonal replacements if they support the adrenals or thyroid to where they begin to function again. Some find that their body is no longer producing the hormones and have to be on hormonal replacement therapy for life.

Have you had your cortisol, ACTH, TSH, and FT3/4 tested?

Since one day you feel symptomatic and the next you are fine, it may mean that your body is healing itself and it is beginning to work again. That would be awesome! It can also mean the opposite where one day you are making enough hormones and the next your body doesn't have enough so you feel bad. You may want to do a 24 hour saliva test on a day that you feel bad and see if that sheds any light on how you feel. Are you taking any multi-vitamins that contain Iodine? what about salt, have you changed your diet where you might not be consuming enough salt? Have you tired switching to Himalayan salt to see if it helps you?
Posted 2/21/2014 9:57 AM (GMT 0)
Healing98, no I haven't had those tests done. I go to my LLMD in April, I will ask him for those tests then. Its funny you mention salt. I always use sea salt, which I believe doesn't have iodine in it. Does Himalayin salt have a special kind of iodine in it?
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