All I can say is I tried it the traditional way but this works much
better. It takes 6 hours for a dose to kick in and about 8 hours to
notice I need more. I used to take my morning dose at 5 am just so
it would start kicking in at 10 to 11 am.

At first the doc thought I was looney, but after explaining all the
different ways I tried it (was scientific about it) this was the
best way. I don't know why my body is this way. I wish I knew
though.

Those two boards are too much to keep up with and a lot of gobbity
gook to weed through. I read hope oasis occasionally, but only if
the titles grab me. Too much casual chit chat for me (I'm on 26
boards so I have to be selective), not a critizism, I know thats
they way they all like it over there, just they way I am (I don't
mind a little), I just want to give and get info and share
experiances of the disease for the most part.

Chris

--- In addisonsdisease@yahoogroups.com, janchup <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> How did you go with
> > out yours for so long?
>
> I was undiagnosed and had no choice. Horrific as it was, it was a
fantastically valuable
> experience for me.... and put a lot of things in perspective. Even
at the worst -which was
> really really bad- my sense of humor blossomed and I relaxed and
opened, almost as if
> there were nothing left to worry about, almost as if I were so
close to death that I could
> just let go of everything and be fully present with whatever was
happening. I'd call it
> radical acceptance.
>
> You know Chris, if you want more interaction -which you might not-
Healinglight and
> HopeOasis are there... the more participants the richer and more
valuable the learnings for
> all.
>
> Jim
>
> I'm just going to be puzzled here. Since the pred family of
steroids has about an 18-36
> hour half-life, I'm not clear why you need to chop so much. I
guess if you do what you do
> it prevents the steroid levels from shooting up all at once at the
front end. But the
> downside is that the steroid activity would remain unabated all
night long. I think this is
> where the steroid damage happens. In a normal person, steroids are
active in the day and
> are nil at night-time which is for rebuilding the day's catabolic
tear-down process. I guess
> this is an argument for HC. This is not a criticism or a search
for an answer....maybe I'm
> just mumbling to myself.....