Evaluating the hormone triad

[Rachel4]

I've been reading the book "Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?" by Richard and Karilee Shames. It's got me thinking about the body as a whole (I do love holistic and osteopathic medicine!).

How many of you have had other hormones checked?

I've had cortisol checked but it was just an AM fasting level, which I've been reading and my DO tells me isn't truly indicative of whether or not a cortisol issue exists.

Feel free to comment more about the types of tests.

I've also been reading about taking estrogen and it hurting the thyroid's ability to produce. As someone who has been on birth control for the better part of a decade I've been feeding my body sex hormones and am not really considering the risks (I'm 26 and have no children) vs benefit of nonhormonal IUDs.

[Barb135]

I've had cortisol checked along with thyroid, but it was only a fasting am test and I understand also that's not valid!!  I also had a glucose tolerance test, which came back "normal", with a hemoglobin A1C that came back at 5.6, which is high normal and my PCP says there's no way I'm insulin resistant - I don't necessarily agree with him because I have all they symptoms, including blood sugar levels that are all over the scale, but he refused to look at the record I have kept, saying "that the meters purchased in the drug store are so inaccurate, they aren't even worth using".  My actual insulin levels were not checked.  

I'm having a problem with PCP right now and he is treating me like a hypochondriac and refuses to do anything more.  Thanks to his nurse practitioner, I got sent to an ENT (before dr got so arrogant) and though I don't have "official" report from ENT yet, I have found out that I do have "inflammation in my thyroid gland", as well as  "multi-nodular goiter" (found that out yesterday when I saw the gastroenterologist that the ENT sent me to).  I'm probably going to soon be looking for another PCP.  

[Smilerdeb]

I had thyroid, cortisol, female reproducing hormones tested and also vitamin deficiencies.
Thyroid came back up the creek each time lol......thats now settling after RAI and Thyroxin.
Sex hormones tell me I went through and finished Menopause 5 years ago (wooohooo) so had early menopause at age 43 and Cortisol came back normal after I thought I had a T3 conversion problem.
I got EVERYTHING checked to rule out each condition.
Hypochondriac? No
Just someone who wanted their quality of life back and am finally getting it.