Nnik
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Hi!
Wondering if any of you guys can help me interpret this and come up with a plan on where to begin. My good friend is 28, diagnosed with hypothyroidism years ago and over the past few years her health has been deteriorating. She was seeing an ND who had her on armour thyroid at a high dose to no resolve or improvement. She saw an MD who scared her out of thyroid and told her the ND “overdosed” her on thyroid. Of course he switched her to Levothyroxine at 137 which hasn’t improved her weight gain or other symptoms. She has been feeling down and unmotivated - no surprise since she is only getting T4 now. She is very open to diet changes and I’ve already gotten her into some principles from Ray peat.
I have her labs below. Why was she diagnosed with Cushing syndrome with low cortisol? Should she still focus on reducing cortisol or does she need to increase it?
My current ideas for her are to switch to Cynomel/cynoplus - not sure a good dosage for her to start at?
Progesterone
Vitamin D
DHEA?
B vitamins?
Pregnenolone?
What do y’all think
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!
***forgot to mention she’s also on Prozac. Not sure if there’s any connection to cushings disease with that or something that could motivate her to wean off of it
Wondering if any of you guys can help me interpret this and come up with a plan on where to begin. My good friend is 28, diagnosed with hypothyroidism years ago and over the past few years her health has been deteriorating. She was seeing an ND who had her on armour thyroid at a high dose to no resolve or improvement. She saw an MD who scared her out of thyroid and told her the ND “overdosed” her on thyroid. Of course he switched her to Levothyroxine at 137 which hasn’t improved her weight gain or other symptoms. She has been feeling down and unmotivated - no surprise since she is only getting T4 now. She is very open to diet changes and I’ve already gotten her into some principles from Ray peat.
I have her labs below. Why was she diagnosed with Cushing syndrome with low cortisol? Should she still focus on reducing cortisol or does she need to increase it?
My current ideas for her are to switch to Cynomel/cynoplus - not sure a good dosage for her to start at?
Progesterone
Vitamin D
DHEA?
B vitamins?
Pregnenolone?
What do y’all think
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!
***forgot to mention she’s also on Prozac. Not sure if there’s any connection to cushings disease with that or something that could motivate her to wean off of it
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