I tried to narrow things down a little, and I have read the information given thus far and it has already given so much information to work with, but here is a little more detail. Some of this is personnal but if it helps someone else...

Sorry ahead of time for spelling errors ect, details are not my strong point.lol(probably part of the problem)

36 yrs old
height 5'4"
weight 110#(small frame, told I am in "normal" height to weight ratio, just on low end, like 19%)
2 healthy(thus far) children delivered vaginally
tonsilectomy 23 yrs ago(13 yrs old)
cholecystectomy 2006(I think?)

This interferes with the absorption of dietary fats and fat soluble vitamins. I recommend adding some lecithin granules to your diet to compensate.


Daily meds: 12 units lantus(long acting insulin)
1 unit humalog(short acting insulin) per
15 carbs at meals

There are ways to keep this to a minimum. Chromium polynicotinate 200mcg 3 to 4 times daily. Gymnema sylvestre and white kidney bean extract before each meal to lower sugar absorption and carb breakdown.

approx 180 mg armour and/or 25mcg

cytomel BID

These can be dealt with as well if you still have your thyroid. You have to wean off the drugs slowly though if you want to come off of them. Helpful herbs are black walnut hull, ashwagandha and nettle leaf. 

approx 5 mg hydrocortisone

This is not going to help with regualting your blood sugar.  And its affects on the adrenals can also have adverse effects on the thyroid.

Adderal 60 mg per day

Again, not good for the adrenals.

Have prescriptions for but rarely use
diflucan 400 mg a day prn
ketoconazole 100mg a day prn

These are hard on the liver so I am glad you are using them rarely.

Supplements:Guafinesin approx 800 mg day
Fish oil 1000 mg
Was using 1500 mg EPO but read it worsens constipation so stopped.

I don't care for EPO. A lot of it is extracted with hexane, and it is very unpredictable with hormones. It can balance them in some cases and make them haywire in other women. Sounds like the later in your case. Unopposed estrogen suppresses the thyroid, which leads to constipation.

Gastric aid:betaine hcl,peppermint powder, glutamic acid hcl,pepsin, gentian extract.

Peppermint is not a good choice in most digestive aids. It can settle the stomach, but it also relaxes the sphincter muscle in the stomach, which can aggravate heartburn. And gentian will not work unless it contacts the tongue as it is a bitter.

Lectin lock: bladderwrack, Nacetyl glucosamine, okra powder, d-mannose,mucin, sodium alginate, pepsin
Forever Well foundation formula: fish protein concentrate, proveg greens
HPA adaptogen:siberian ginseng,ashwaganda,Maca

L-carnitine 500 mg 2Xday, vitc 500 mg 3Xday, pantenothentic acid 500 mg 3Xday
ALA and Acetyl l carnitine 250 each 3Xday bentofiomine150 mg 3Xday

b complex 50 mg 3Xday
zinc 25 mg day

I recommend increasing the zinc to 25mg twice daily with meals.

Astragulus 500 mg 3Xday

Probiotics and prebiotics
I do not always do well with probiotics, they make my nose stuffy(when they get to my colon, just a pattern I noticed) They also increase the dreaded MUCUS. I am guessing this is due to the leaky gut thing.

Sounds more like a dairy allergy. Probiotics have actually been found in studies to aid with leaky gut.

The types are varied; Natrol extra strentgh 50 billion plus, the other is lactobacillus acidophillus and Bifidobacterium longum and B.bifidum.3 billion Then I take one for women's health that has l.rhamnosus GR-1, and l. rueteri RC-14 5 billion.
The prebiotics are nutraFlora FOS and Bi2muno TGOS.1300 mg


plus some days a flinstone multi with extra choline(cringe---blast me if you need to, but it makes me feel better)

Not a problem. I am not in to synthetic vitamins for the most part, but I see you are getting real vitamins from the herbs you are taking.

Recently added just b/c they were having a sale at the store--- Lycopene 5 mg 3Xday, lutein 25 mg 3X day, shark liver oil 1 per day.

Oh, and Taurox, it's an immune system modulator!! Makes a world of difference in my life.
Sometimes magnesium citrate but it makes my gut feel like its floating upward and moving in the wrong direction(backwards) and makes me feel very alkaline.

A lot of magnesiums also contain magnesium oxide even if they state magnesium citrate on the front of the label. Read the ingredients and make sure that it does not contain any oxide. The oxide burns the intestinal wall.

Sometimes calcium gluconate to counteract the feeling magnesium gives me. Helps a little.

BUT I had a HIGH BLOOD CALCIUM level about 1 yr ago! The doc was pretty puzzled by this b/c my vit D level was low normal (22) at the time. All I know is that this caused the most awful depression, really, I wanted to have a car accident or something awful jsut to take me out of this world. This is NOT like me at all. I used to be a very positive person, but these challenges have made me one of the most negative people to be around! I get on my own nerves!lol But anyway, once this level went back to normal, I felt way better, but still don't know why if went out of wack. Maybe too much thyroid hormone was all I could figure.

It sounds like you likely had hyperparathyroidism. This is the most common cause of hypercalcemia, and vitamin D deficiencies are the most common trigger for hyperparathyroidism. Did the doctor also check your PTH levels?

Health history: sorry for any erroneous info:
normal birth, not breast fed
very sickly with ears nose throat stuff many antibiotics, mosty penicillin I think.

This is very common in non-breast fed babies. Especially if babies are taken by C-section. The problem is that babies are exposed to hospital pathogens when they are born. Breast feeding helps to build up the benefical flora that control these pathogens.

sexually abused by family member at 8 yrs old, don't know if thats important, but it has influenced some decisions in my life and my view of men(not all negative, just reality) Plus, my father stopped having ANY personnal contact with me(hugging, etc) at about age 12, due to my "developing". He is not who abused me, but his actions were very damaging to my psyche. This was way worse to me than the sexua| abuse!

He may have been trying to protect you because of the earlier abuse. You know how society is anymore. You have to be very careful showing affection to your children these days because it may be misconstrued. With the earlier abuse people will watch the victims actions even closer because victims sometimes act out in manners considered inappropropriate later on. So any affection he showed could have been deemed inappropriate by people who don't known any better. It is a shame, but society needs to learn to be less judgmental.

I had all the usual vaccines, ect.

These can definitely cause health problems in some individuals. I have seen too many examples.

I had my first "silver" filling at about age 10 I think, dentist was a real nut-case, probably used only mercury fillings.lol I also had flouride treatments weekly at the private school I attened.

I really think the whole mercury amalgams causing disease is BS. I won't go in to an explanation right now. Fluoride is a halogen, just like iodine, and it can displace iodine causing hypothyroidism.

I think these two things really contributed to my demise. I was never an energetic child. But when puberty hit, I never felt like doing anything! Probably that adrenal immune modulating low-specificity auto-antibody thing(I think that's what it was) occuring maybe?? Maybe due to flouride, wheat, mercury, milk???

Most likely anemia from menstruation.

I live in a very rural area now, but grew up right in between a major expressway and international airport. Our house was nestled on a one-block area right between the two! My mother, God love her, grew our food in the backyard and canned so we ate them all year round. No wonder them tomatoes grew so big!lol I'd say I have some environmental toxin exposure. My whole immediate family has thyroid issues. Don't know if theirs is auto immune though. I've asked them, but they don't know.

Being the whole family has thyroid issues I would think that a more likely culprit would be exposure to xenoestrogens, possibly from herbicides or pesiticides, or PCBs or dioxin in the water supply.

When I developed diabetes I was put on the ADA diet and so my bs were very erratic, never stable. But then I discover low-carb and things stabilized. But I did my fair share ofAspartame and brominated vegetable oil(mt. dew).

Through college I felt awesome. I was a runner, worked full-time and had a full-time class schedule. The ONE AND ONLY THING I did different was that I was using an "all natural" energizer that contained EPHEDRA. Of course that ended with the ban.

You should have never done that anyway. Ephedra is safe when used properly, but recreationally for energy is not proper. You just end up crashing your adrenals. Caffeine will also do this.

Got married at 24 had 2 kids in 3 yrs. Haven't really felt well since I was 27 after the birth of my second child.

Could be a hormonal issue, which again can affect your thyroid.

I'll give some blood work info, but none of it is very recent and it's just from memory.

low white blood cell 2.8 was the lowest I think.
High potassium once, but it corrected on it's own.
Have had high eosoniphils on every cbc for the last 9 yrs.

The list of causes here is very long. It can be from something as simple as allergies or medications to autoimmune conditions and many other disorders.

Had high amylase and lipase, but they yanked out my GB as a result. Have no idea what it is now.

They should have never removed your gallbladder. Too late now though.

Was told I had low growth hormone, they used something else to determine though, I think IGF-1, maybe?

The doc only did blood work for cortisol, he said it was low for the time of day?

A diagnosis of low cortisol cannot be made based on one blood test. Levels flucuate wildly throughout the day.

I have osteoporosis. He said from lack of absorption.

Not having a gallbladder, diabetes, low vitamin D levels, the steroids they are giving you, thyroid medications, possible hyperparathyroidism.......... Your lucky to have any bone left.

Very common in CFS he said?

Chronic fatigue can have various causes. I would not consider osteoprosis to be associated unless he is thinking the fatigue from hypercalcemia.

THis same one said he just assumed my ovaries were under an autoimmune attack like every other endocrine organ seemed to be, thus the premature ovarian failure. Boy, he was shocked when they started back up afer the ondamed. But he was knowledgable in both natural and conventional methods, so he was intrigued this happened. I am not sure that is what caused the return becasue I was doing so many alternatives at the time.

If your body perceived a high estrogen load from xenoestrogens then this could have led to a shutdown. As the xenoestrogens were metabolized the ovaries would have slowly kicked back in. When you mentioned chemical exposure earlier were you talking about estrogenic substances such as herbicides, pesticides, or maybe dioxins?

I was taking guafinesin regularly to thin all this mucus issue I have.

Cayenne pepper contains a similar molecule that does the same thing. Fenugreek is also great for thinning mucus.

Doc started me on adhd med vyvanse due to orthostatic hypotension--which this helped tremendously

Orthostatic hypotension is a classic symptom of adrenal dysfunction. The adrenals release epinephrine when you stand to constrict the blood vessels and compensate for gravity's pulling the blood away from the brain. If the adrneals do not respond quick enough the lack of blood flow to the brain leads to the temporary dizziness. Other symptoms of low adrenal function include allergies/asthma, fatigue, hormone imbalances, thyroid problems, autoimmunity, water retention, chronic inflammatory conditions, abnormal stress response (easily irritated, flies off the handle easily).........

I had IV edta chelation
I had IV h202
I had several meyers cocktails IV
I was doing ionic foot baths 2 a week

These do not work. Run the machine without any feet in their and you still get the foam and discolored water. I feel the water is becoming hyperalkaline from the minerals in the water and the electrolysis, which would lead to the formation of hydroxides. The hydroxides would then react with the oils from the plastic container or oils from the skin or lotions leading to the formation of soaps. Thus the "scum" and discoloration. Some metal also ends up in the water leading to discoloration. A local news station did an expose' on this and demonstrated that the scum and discoloration still happens when no feet are in the water.

I did the hyperbaric o2 chamber
I was also doing acupuncture( I think for liver and kidney qi deficiency) but the doc never really said.

Now, I do think these things helped some, but for the outrageous amount of money spent, I should be frickin super woman!

now I just stay home 80 percent of the time. Only leave to go to the grocery and to and from work.(nuclear medicine is what I do)

I figured you were in medicine. I saw your medical abbreviation above.

I don't go to church anymore b/c I can't stand smiling and talking to people. Same with ball-games or sports activities for my kids. I try to stay away from the docs as much as possible, but unfortunately I am a victim of modern medicine and MUST go at least once a year to have prescriptions refilled.

Most of what you are dealing with should not be that hard to deal with. Just focus on one or two things at a time. I recommend focusing on the adrenals and osteoporosis first. With as much as things are interconnected you would be surprised at how much crossover there is with therapies. For example, focusing on the adrenals can lead to improved thyroid function, better blood sugar regulation, and lowered bone loss.

I have symptoms of hypo thyroidism, but my blood work says the opposite. I have dry course hair, fatigue, cold hands and feet. Very intolerent to cold or ANYTHING blowing on me, especially my face. Now, I have long, dark hair that looks healthy and shiney at some moments, but can turn almost fuzzy reddish and dry looking and start to "pop" out by the handful within hours. Those close to me have witnessed it occuring and commented. So very strange.

Lab tests for thyroid function are pretty much a joke. Several reasons for false readings but too long to explain right now.

I have been told I don't "look" sick at all. That I actually "look" quite well and healthy. I do make an effort to appear decent when I go out in public, but it's alot of effort.

My husband loves me and wants me well. He is still very attracted to me even after all this! I am frustrated by this because I have feeling of genuine disgust at times, but then at other times I feel very attracted to him and very sexual. I mean, like night and day from one moment to the next! I don't know whats going on on at the good times, but it is something going on on the inside of me, like hormonal or something. I wish it was like the good moments all the time.

Again this would take a lot of explaining. Attraction is a balancing act between a lot of different different compounds; estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, prolactin, oxytocin, vasopressin, serotonin, dopamine, prostaglandins, etc. Imbalances with any of these can swing your moods very quick.

Anyway, hope this gives maybe some relevent info. I've spent too long on here today already, but I'll do my best to try back later if there is more info needed.


I forgot to mention my diet now. Pretty boring. I did the candida diet for over five years, that was awful. now I just have whatever sound good, but within reason. I eat many vegggies, not much fruit(on occasion, but hate the sugar fluctations it causes),

Take some gymnema sylvestre about 15 minutes before eating the fruit to control this. Gymnema is a sugar blocker and blocks the absorption of about 70 to 80% of the sugar you ingest afterward.

and try to get 3-6 ouncesof meat a day. Not organic or anything, but do eat salmon with bones at least 3 times a week

Make sure the salmon is wild caught. Farm raised is notorious for having very high levels of heavy metals due to thier feed. Sometimes farm raised salmon is dyed pink to pass it off as wild caught. So buy from trusted sources.

, eggs, beef, chicken(not much b/c I always invision the conditions in which they are raised and killed etc and I want to puke), and turkey. Not much junk. Maybe a potato chip every now and then. I don't eat many starchy veggies either. I do have 1 cup of coffee in the morning.