high cortisol at night and brutal insomnia

[Noraspidora]

For two years I have had chronic and brutal insomnia. I have Hashimotos Thyroiditis and take desiccated thyroid. I sleep for an hour or teo each night.

I gad a cortidol test refently and it showed that my daytime cortisol is low, but it's high at night.

My ND has me taking salt and liquorice tea during the day and ashwaghanda and phosphatidyl serine at night but nothing seems to help. She recently put me on bioidentical progesterone and I sleot like a log for 6 weeks and then I had a complete relapse.

Can sny one offer sny suggestions? I am frankly becoming suicidal because of the inability to sleep.

[rumpled]

Oh NO! My sympathies...
I hope you have a good support system to cope, and can find a doctor to give you T3 in the future. Please post back when you can, and take care.

[Noraspidora]

Thanks for responding to me.

Just after I made the above post, my partner of 35 years was told that he has cancer, so my issues sort of fell by the wayside.

I have had to stay at a less than optimal dose of Erfa Thyroid just to be able to sleep. That leaves me with a TSH of 6.0, which is far too high, but I have to sleep, so that's what I must do.

[rumpled]

Sounds more like Cushing's than AI frankly. I had the same.

You have to find an endo that knows Cushing's, which is not easy, and get the source found (may be pituitary, adrenal or other tumor, or steroids) and remove it, and then you can get better.

Cortisol at night is just not fun. I failed sleep tests left and right.

[TheLightSeeker]

Discuss with your ND, how to ease off the Hashi's treatment, by lowering the
desiccated thyroid to the lowest safe level- this requires a lot of adjusting and tweaking.
Your adrenal system needs to recover, so it down-regulates your thyroid to achieve this.
When you continue treating the hypo the same, you're going against the higher ranking adrenals,  and the  priority is to restore the HPA Axis imbalance.
The approach in order to be successful, must include a combination of:
-Physical (decrease inflammation, treat underlying causes, detox, neurotransmitter rebalancing)
-Nutritional (diet, supplements, identify allergies and sensitivity,digestion)
-Psychological( past trauma therapy, meditation, breathing re-training, etc.
-Lifestyle