Re: Seriphos taking even while on Hydrocortisone?

Paulette...

I use hawthorne berry capsules to help with the pounding heart and it may help with the anxiety. Can you tolerate hard boiled eggs as a night time snack? It has been recommended by the mods on the NTH adrenal board on yahoo for folks with hypoglycemia.

You were on cortisone, right? You know that the best thing to do is get tested, but I know money is an issue right now. I'm thinking that your cortisol has gone even lower and perhaps you should try getting back on it, or at least try the topical 1% hydrocortisone cream (topically). Have you tried combo of isocort, licorice and pregnenolone?

If you want to try the Seraphos, I would take it slowly, and make sure you've got isocort and licorice on hand to raise your cortisol if it goes too low. I've had that happen at night where I'd wake up nauseous and end up throwing up nothing but bile, licorice brought me out of it.

When my cortisol was high, I didn't really get anxious and sweaty to stress, instead I would get enraged!! I don't know if that is typical of high cortisol or not. I know a lot of symptoms of high and low cortisol can be similar.

It was only when I brought the high cortisol down that I would get anxious. However during the high cortisol time, at night, I would toss and turn. I didn't feel anxious. I felt fidgety, restless, wired yet tired.

If your symptoms worsen or you get new ones like nauseousness, body aches -- especially in weird places like bottom of feet, top of feet, thighs, etc. that normally aren't an issue, then the Seriphos probably lowered your cortisol too much. Then take some licorice and several isocort (like 4) and after 30 minutes if no improvement, take another dose of isocort (4).

A few winters ago, we had several inches of snow to shovel and the stress of shoveling for an hour made me nauseous and shaky. I ended up needing like 11 isocort to come out of it, along with salt water.

But, like I said, your symptoms truly sound like low cortisol to me -- but I'm not a doctor and the only way you'll know is to do that test we all must do ... the saliva test.