The best way to get off is to taper slowly. Take it in the morning when cortisol rises naturally.

Take zinc (with copper) at night before bed. Zinc naturally lowers cortisol and you want it to go down at night. Zinc is also required for the hypothalamus to make all the chemical messages it sends to the pituitary, and that all affects the adrenals.

Take b-vitamins and vitamin C for your adrenals. It is really hard to find research on the adrenals online or details of how adrenals make all of the adrenal chemical outputs. But with a lot of digging, I found that the b-vitamins and vitamin C are what you need for adrenal gland function. Take a multivitamin too. If you want to support the natural function of the adrenal glands, and let your body do what it's supposed to do, you want to take vitamins.

Take EXTRA b6. Steroids deplete this vitamin. Start with 25mg twice a day, then build up from there.

B-vitamins are best taken in small increments throughout the day instead of one large dose per day.

Make sure you get plenty of sun in the morning. The blue light hitting your eyes sends a signal for your body to make cortisol.

Yes, you have to proceed slowly.

Why did you decide to take HC?

Did you have relevant test results?

Did you ramp up slowly or just started at 30mg?

Not tolerating 30mg doses does not mean you won't tolerate more common 10 or 15mg doses. You might just be taking too much or failed to ramp up slowly enough to allow your body to adapt to more healthy levels of cortisol.

Also did anyone explain the concept of "stress dosing?" This is a better reflection of how your body makes cortisol based on need.

After testing my friend's doctor thought she'd do well at 15mg; however she quickly gained weight around the middle as she increased to around 12mg.

She has been doing well on just 5-7mg HC plus 50-70mg pregnenolone and some progesterone cream 3 weeks per month. She also takes a supplement from her FM doc containing glandular and some herbals. She'll take a little extra hormones-- a stress dose--occasionally for a day or so after stressful events.

Hormones can be powerfully wonderful when taken correctly by those who really need them. They can be quite problematic when abused.