Chris,
I'm sorry to bother you & you have probably explained all this before,
but I have a couple questions for you...
1. How do you know if you have primary or secondary Addison's Disease?
2. Where did you get the prednisolone & DHEA? What are they?


I know i have Hypothyroidism - which was diagnosed 1st and then a year
later I was diagnosed with Addison's, my Dr. said I probably would not
have lived much longer had I not been diagnosed when I was! I started
with 120 mg cortef...now I'm on 25 mg cortef, .1mg Florinef, & of course
Synthroid (.150 mcg)- I try to take the 15 mg cortef, Florinef &
Synthroid by 7:30 a.m. and the 10 mg cortef (oh & I"m also on Paxil, 20
mg) around 4:00 PM.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks so much!
God Bless,
Tahnya



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Jackson [mailto:chrisgj@...]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:25 AM
To: addisonsdisease@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Addison's Disease] Found a better way to take my
prednisolone


I tried taking the 3 mg at midnight, 2 mg at 8 am, 1 mg at 4pm
the
last two days and found taking that way is even better than
taking
the 4 mg at midnight and 2 mg at noon.

Chris


--- In addisonsdisease@yahoogroups.com, Heather Fiocchi
<heever_hlb@y...> wrote:
> Chris i'm soooo happy to hear that!!!! That is wonderful
news!!!! I
hope you feel better and better each day!!!!!
> heather
>
> Chris Jackson <chrisgj@s...> wrote:
> On Dec 8th, 2004, I was diagnosed secondary and given cortef
(30
mg /
> day). After one month it did nothing for me so I was switched
to
> prednisolone in early Jan this year. I have been taking it at
5am
(4
> mg-hated interupting my sleep like that) and noon (2 mg), but
the
> stuff takes until 10 or 11 am (5 or 6 hours) until it starts
to
kick
> in. A few days ago I tried taking the entire days dose at 5
am and
> by 3 pm I was starting to crash and wiped out by about 6 pm.
>
> I knew from my super high doses of DHEA days (before doctor
finally
> helped me) that I was bottoming out overnight. I thought,
"let's
try
> taking the 5 am dose of 4 mg at midnight instead. That should
mean
> that it would start to kick in about 6 am.
>
> Low and behold, the last two days have been the best all year.
I'm
> not superman or anything, but I feel better and get through
the day
> better.
>
> So if you have the problem of it taking your steriod a long
time to
> start kicking in, try a much earlier time like I did. I wish
I had
> figured it out sooner.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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