Chris,
Hello. I wanted to first thank you so much for your response to my email and
secondly answer your question about corteff.

So firstly, thank you. That email was so helpful and has given me many options
on ways to seek better help for better health.
I'm going to seek a new docter, call the local schools, and look for an
enviornmental docter as well. You had asked where i live as you might be able to
help me find a docter if you knew of one in the area. I'm in new york city...so
theres really gotta be some good docters out here!
I'm also going to self test my thryriod as you suggested and see what happens.
right now actually, i'm feeling terribly sick. i missed my after noon dosage of
cortefff yesterday- my pill box had run out at work and i hadn't refilled
it...at anyrate- don't miss dosses- it take a good day to catch back up.
...which leads me on to that- the corteff.
I take 10mg in the morning and 10 at noon. 2 doses a day is recomended but of
course what that does is for everyone is different.
my docter told me that a "normal" person without addison's hormones all
replenish early in the am, around 4am and use what you need most early and then
tend to taper off in the afternoon towards evening when you don't need them as
much. so he recomended i take the first dose no later than 6am everyday and my
second at noon- as if you wait too long to take the second dose, your energy
will be lacking- big time. i was origanilly taking the meds when i woke- which
was 7 or 8 or even 10 and then again at 4 in the afternoon- my first docter
didn't tell me it mattered, but aparently it matters greatly. takin it at
different times everyday REALLY throws your whole system off...and missing a
dose is not good. i'm extrememly symptomatic and can't beleive i'm actuall
writing all this right now...though i'm better now then this morning when i
couldn't move or stop shaking.
so make sure to find the right time schedule and stick to it. when you travel i
thought i was to set my clock for normal time and take meds as i did when home-
my docter said not so...said that your body automatically changes with where you
are in the world due to time zones and so on (amazing) and that you should take
it according to the time in which your in that would normally be when you were
taking it.
you are also supposed to up your meds when you are sick with anything like the
flu or on other anitbiotics for anything..as your weeker you need more corteff
as you can't create more on your own like a "normal" person would. he says to
up it about one pill for 3 days and then go back to normal, depending on how
serious obviously.
there are side effects- when i was taking it too late in the day and didn't know
it i wasn't sleeping well at night and sweating- cause you body doesn't need it
as much in the evening. also you'll get bloated and gain weight if you on too
high a dose. if your on too low i've found my energy is aweful i can't
concentrate and have sortness of breath and so on. i hope this is somewhat
helpful. it's really not as complicated as it seems, just something to get used
to.
i am going to try taking florineff again...they started me on that along with
corteff in the begining but i felt like i was too medicated, even though that
might have not been the right thing to take me off..but they were just trying
back then, to find the right mix for me.....but i do recall having the most
energy back then when i was on both now that i thing about it...and as for salt-
i'm an addict- can't get enough of the stuff.
hope to talk to you soon, and if you have any docters you might know of please
let me know..it would be greatly appreciated.
take care,
Heather

Chris Jackson <chrisgj@...> wrote:
As you have probably seen in my previous posts, I just started taking
cortef. My doctor has never dealt with Primary or secondary, so I
don't really trust him to know what to do. Please let me know how you
take it and if it helping.
Thanks,
Chris in St. Louis




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