Hi
I am trying to help another guy out on a thyroid forum who is having a tough time with thyroid replacement and testosterone replacement.
He is now off all thyroid meds as they were making him worse and he was doing good over the summer, but come the autumn his body is going wrong again. He is now really tired with less focus and no motivation. He has swollen glands and cracking joints and aches and pains. All the symptoms he had before he tried thyroid meds, but also while on them (hence he came off).
He has given me some more info tonight and he is on quite a lot of supplements as well plus he is injecting testosterone. This is his list:
I have actually been taking 30mg Pregnenolone for about eight months. I take it in the morning. I also take vit b complex, d3, melatonin, 5-HTP, magnesium, vit c, adrenal cortex, L-theanine and 800mg metformin.
Can anyone help me figure out what is going wrong. I have told him he might well be artificially raising his cortisol to much and so sending his adrenals out of whack with his other systems.
His best bet is to stop all these supplements and just continue with the testosterone and see how he gets on.
Anyone spot any other interactions. I mean he is also on diabetes meds (metaformin) so how does this affect things ?
I am trying to help another guy out on a thyroid forum who is having a tough time with thyroid replacement and testosterone replacement.
He is now off all thyroid meds as they were making him worse and he was doing good over the summer, but come the autumn his body is going wrong again. He is now really tired with less focus and no motivation. He has swollen glands and cracking joints and aches and pains. All the symptoms he had before he tried thyroid meds, but also while on them (hence he came off).
He has given me some more info tonight and he is on quite a lot of supplements as well plus he is injecting testosterone. This is his list:
I have actually been taking 30mg Pregnenolone for about eight months. I take it in the morning. I also take vit b complex, d3, melatonin, 5-HTP, magnesium, vit c, adrenal cortex, L-theanine and 800mg metformin.
Can anyone help me figure out what is going wrong. I have told him he might well be artificially raising his cortisol to much and so sending his adrenals out of whack with his other systems.
His best bet is to stop all these supplements and just continue with the testosterone and see how he gets on.
Anyone spot any other interactions. I mean he is also on diabetes meds (metaformin) so how does this affect things ?