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Hi everyone I have hashimotos thyroiditis, which I am treating with armour thyroid. I have just received a bunch of test results back and the adrenal stim test shows that I am not producing enough cortisol. I also have low estrogen. My doctor wants me to ...

cortef

- Adrenal Insufficiency Community

how long does it take for you to know if the cortef is helping? i'm taking it 4 days and don't see any changes?

I switched from prednisone to cortef and feel weird

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So I switched from prednisone to corfef because the prednisone bothered by stomach. The prednisone worked great, but now the cortef doesn't seem to work that well for me. I have only been on it for a few days. Am I feeling weird because the prednisone take...

Emergency kit contents

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What should be in my emergency kit? Also, do you keep track of how much extra sodium you add each day? Thanks

Just starting out

- Thyroid Disorders Community

Any help here is appreciated. I originally had saliva testing done for bio-identical hormones for which a compound pharmacist recommended Vitamin D 1000 IU for insulin resistance, cortef 5mg @7am and 5mg at noon for adrenal fatigue. Started that and took i...

T3 and Cortef help

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I have been taking compounded T3 (7.5 mcg- two pills- twice per day-12 hrs apart) for about 11 days. My temperatures haven't changed much. Does anyone know how long it takes to feel good when using T3? I have also begin taking Cortef twice a day- 7.5mg in...

addisons

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I'm told that addisons and diabeties do oy go together and wondering if 'actos ' and cortef wil work to gether, I have had addisons since 1981, thefore been taking cortef a long time .. thanks for info ...

Really Suffering

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Hi! Has anyone who has been on Cortef ever experienced severe anxiety/panic attacks, chronic insomnia, muscle tension, severe sweating etc. I have been on it for about 7 weeks and I still feel terrible . I feel I am on too low a dose at 22.5 mg. Howev...

First time being on Cortef...

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Here are my thyroid and cortisol results... Free triiodothyronine 4.5 RANGE 3.5-6.5 Senstitve TSH 1.37 RANGE 0.35-5.00 Free T4 16 RANGE 9-23 ANTI -PO 48 HI RANGE <35 ANTI-TG <20 RANGE <40 ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY POSITIVE TITRE 1:320 HI ANA PATTE...

Feeling worse on Cortef

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I started taking 20mg Cortef a couple weeks ago, then raised it to 25mg since I was reading that 25 is more of a replacement dose, but I've been having a lot of shortness of breath, feeling like my chest is heavy, coughing a lot trying to get air, sinus in...

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