I fixed my high cortisol

[Joanneconnor]

I have posted before on this subject, I have had to open a new thread to show my chart

[G2G2]

How did you lower cortisol?

[greygoose]

This is a follow on from this post :

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

Where zebady posted her high cortisol results.

Yes, I agree, not much point in posting this without telling us how you did it!

[Joanneconnor in reply to greygoose]

I have done a previous post about how I fixed it If you have this problem I'm sure you have already seen it

[Joanneconnor]

I have been on 12 hour shifts not teasing

[Joanneconnor]

I started by taking phosphytidal serine (not sure about spelling) then getting 7-8 hours of sleep, walked twice a week about 6 miles a week, drank small glass of fresh orange per day, ate 2 small chunks of 70% dark chocolate per day

[Joanneconnor in reply to Joanneconnor]

Had a medium glass of berry smoothies a day, drank filtered water, cut out all caffeine, it took 6 months!! 😀

[Cup-cake7 in reply to Joanneconnor]

Hi

Where did you get this from?

[Joanneconnor in reply to Cup-cake7]

I found all this in the Internet after a lot of scouring

[abby3216]

sounds like a good plan except for the 6 miles a week for me personally. I applaud you for doing that!! I pretty much do these things, except for the walking, but mine is still very high at night. I do take the PSerine too. good luck with finding something that works and for sharing it with us.

[Joanneconnor in reply to abby3216]

I'm sure it will work just takes time, good luck

[Cup-cake7]

I've only just seen this. Thanks so much and well done you - may I ask where you buy pserine?

[Joanneconnor in reply to Cup-cake7]

I think I got them from simply supplements uk, you should be able to find them easily if you use google shopping

[Cup-cake7]

And another More important thought, were/are you hypo? if so how did affect your levels pls?

[Joanneconnor in reply to Cup-cake7]

Yes I was hypo I am on NDT and it didn't effect it at all, not sure what your high cortisol symptoms are but I was a mess. Really bad brain function, mood swings, emotional, angry, fed up, snappy. Not good but it all went after it lowered

[Cup-cake7]

Thank you so much for this, I'm in self hate mode as I've been all,these things Joanne! Bless you, for being so honest

I can't read your results 😊

Mine

In range on waking 18. High end ( 14-21)

12 o'clock. 11.6. (4-9). So too high

4pm. Again just in range high end

And bedtime 9.3 !!!!! (.8o - 4.50)

[Cup-cake7]

Why I am asking all these questions is because I am having trouble tolerating levo, I've only been up to 50 and anxiety screaming at me and tinitus doubled

So after reading doc peat he saying treat adrenals first!

I have bought some ndt but been a bit scared to try with all this going on

[Joanneconnor in reply to Cup-cake7]

Don't worry about taking NDT try and figure out equivalent dose and change over, there's nothing to be scared of if you cannot tolerate Levo you've nothing to lose

[Joanneconnor in reply to Cup-cake7]

I did adrenals and NDT together I didn't sort adrenals first

[Cup-cake7]

And I get emotional outbursts now and again, I feel generally low, almost broken hearted so,etimes, yes I feel irritable, my mood swings, I've moved into feeling so impatient recently, pretty well negative glad half empty, and a feeling of being stuck, spring in step nowhere to be seen, everything too much effort

[Joanneconnor]

Did you send off for the saliva kit? My results are

8am -24.15 (9-32)

11am -14.97 (4-10)

3pm - 9.41 (2-7)

8pm - 3.21 (1-5)

I constantly has a feeling of being overwhelmed couldn't deal with every day life

[Cup-cake7]

Thankyou xx