When you go to your doctor’s appointment you should bring along your thyroid exam and make a list of all medications you are currently taking. Most important your blood exam’s that show you have thyroid antibodies. If you can not get a hold of your thyroid exams, then ask him to do a thyroid antibody exam specifically TPO AB, thyroglobulin antibodies (TG AB), and (TR AB). Eat gluten for a whole week prior to taking the thyroid antibody exam. Your antibodies should show up on the exam. Discuss with your doctor how you felt while weaning off of prednisone. Some endo’s will prescribe cortef , it is like prednisone but more natural to the body. It helps with adrenal insufficiency. As for your adrenal gland, I do not think he will do any tests because you are taking prednisone. The only test he can do is an antibody test for the adrenal gland. I took a 24 cortisol test after I weaned off of prednisone.
Note my disclaimer I only speak from my personal experience, these are my opinions only. Some of the supplements you are taking maybe preventing you from going into full remission. You should not take folic acid, it irritates the colon. If you need folic acid go to an alternative doctor and have him give you an injection. Some but not all alternative doctors do vitamin injections. If you are going to take Omega 3, you should buy krill oil instead it is better digested by the body. Most if not all Omega 3 products are bleached and heavily processed. Most of us have problems digesting foods especially during a flare I highly recommend you buy a digestive enzyme. I use digest gold by enzymedica and it is not fruit based. If you buy it, do not take it at the same time you take medication and take it after a meal once a day. The enzyme will help you get more nutrients from the foods you eat. I would not take biotin. I found taking most supplements were more problems than they were worth. Dr. David Klein who promotes a raw diet I don’t said in his book he could not take B-vitamins because they aggravate his UC.
Post Edited (deepblue sea) : 2/1/2012 7:21:00 PM (GMT-7)