Debbie’s Story

An RAI suc­cess story with adre­nal sup­port and using Armour! Inspiring!

It’s been one year since I took the plunge and it’s been the abso­lute best deci­sion I’ve ever made!

Quick recap — Had RAI 8 years ago and star­ted on Synth­roid. Later added Cyto­mel. Switched to Armour. Spent a cou­ple years adding T4 to the mix. With every change, I might feel ok for a while, but it would never last. That’s when I found this won­der­ful place!

Loo­king back, I had clas­sic adre­nal symp­toms – heart palps in a.m., so weak in the a.m., hair loss horri­ble, woke up at 2 am-hot flashes too, sto­mach kinda queasy, no fee­ling in muscles-very jiggly, dizzy when I would get up, couldn’t stand to be touched (I actually would ins­tinc­ti­vely pull away when my hus­band just put his hand on my knee), very depres­sed — laid on couch and cried — another horri­ble day. And this had all been going on for a few years.

Gosh, it makes me so sad to look back at all this. So much time wasted.

When I found this place, I was trying to balance my FT3/FT4 num­bers. The first thing Janie told me was to for­get about the num­bers and go with symp­toms. That was very hard to do after I’d spent end­less hours going over my tests and trying to make some kind of con­nec­tion. It was also hard for me to con­si­der all Armour again because that is when a lot of the really bad symp­toms star­ted. Now I know it was the Adrenal/Low Ferri­tin thing, but it took awhile for it to sink in.

A tur­ning point was when I read that 3 – 5 grains of Armour was a nor­mal replacement .

I did a saliva test, star­ted on Nutri-med adre­nals, and orde­red some Armour. When I star­ted having the pro­blems on Armour before I was at 2.25 grains. Now, by sup­por­ting my adre­nals, I am up to 5 grains and have none of the pro­blems. I’ve lear­ned to rest when I need to and to adjust things based on when I feel symp­toms return.

Here are some of the impro­ve­ments I’ve seen:

• no heart palps or ove­rall weakness
• hair loss is still more than it should be, but so much bet­ter – plus it has it’s wave and shine back, so I’m trying not to stress.
• musc­les aren’t jiggly anymore-and even tho I haven’t been exer­ci­sing at all, they’re stron­ger than they were before
• sleep deep all night-I’m even having dreams again
• I can hold my husband’s hand again and have no pro­blems with being touched.
• No more crying all the time. I can’t remem­ber the last time I cried over nothing. Now I cry at appro­priate things
• I’m able to be sen­ti­men­tal again. I look at my boys and *feel* the emo­tion, if you know what I mean.
• I enjoy lis­te­ning to music again. I sing along and dance around the house all the time.
• We were able to take a few days vaca­tion and I had a won­der­ful time. Also had 2 wed­ding recep­tions and enjo­yed
  dan­cing and visiting.
• My boys have their mother back. They don’t have to remem­ber a mother crying on the couch all day. Now I can go
  outside and play with them.
• My hus­band says I have my spi­rit back. I catch him loo­king at me and just smi­ling and he says he has me back.

Well, now I’m crying, but it’s a good crying! I am so eter­nally grateful!