1. It didn’t help my sweating at all. I’ve still been sweating like a horse when the temperature is even slightly elevated or when I do any remotely physical activity, like walking up a hill.
2. My sleep pattern and schedule were similarly unaffected.
3. One thing it might have affected is my mood. I have been in a great mood for the past month. Maybe that’s just because good things have been happening, so it’s really impossible to say.
4. Also it’s very hard to say, but the Isocort might have increased my sex drive.
5. At the beginning, I felt like Isocort was giving me a lactose reaction, so I started taking a Lactaid pill every morning.

I’m going to taper off the Isocort soon, and in the mean time ask my parents to order some more for me. I’d like to wait at least a month before resuming it so I can gauge my situation off it and judge whether my mood and sex drive decline.

Here is what I’ve observed so far using the Isocort along with my normal daily medications (Armour and Lanton): not much of anything, but I am definitely gassier in a way that tends to happen when I drink milk or eat ice cream (ie, flatulence caused by mild lactose intolerance). I checked the composition of Isocort and lactose/lactase is an ingredient, so that’s no surprise; I think I’ll start taking Lactaid and/or Beano daily to deal with it. Also, I have been pretty fatigued for the past couple days, but that’s likely because a house guest is staying with me indefinitely and making it difficult for me to get my normal sleep.

I also thought it might be useful to put down clearly by which criteria I’ll judge Isocort’s success or lack of it. If the Isocort significantly improves at least two of these issues, without damaging me in some other way, I will be overjoyed: sweating, fatigue, acne, weight gain. If it significantly improves one and moderately improved another one or two, I’ll be pretty happy and keep taking it.

I feel the same.

Maybe I didn’t explain adequately why I’m so excited about the Isocort. I get excited about every new medication I try or even when I adjust doses. I always want it to work and I always go into it thinking that it’s going to work. When I tried Clonidine, I was excited. When I switched from from Lanton to Omepradex and back to Lanton, I was excited. When I switched from Armour to synthetic T3 and back to Armour, I was excited.

But now is the first time that I’m really trying anything related to the adrenals at all. I begged my endocrinologists for years to look at the adrenals, but they always swore that there’s no connection between thyroid and adrenals and that, since I don’t have Addison’s or Cushing’s, my adrenals are fine.

But I’m hoping/planning to get it by Monday, so within a few days I’ll be able to start seeing if it works. In the mean time, I’ve grown a beard.

I did gluten free this time for two weeks. I will say that it cleared up my diarrhea, which I really appreciate. Unfortunately, it didn’t do anything else for me and had no effect on my sweating.

Then I heard from someone taking Isocort, which I’d somehow managed never to consider. I’m going to get a bottle of it in about 10 days, and I’ll try working it into my daily routine and decreasing my Armour.

I’ve never met an endocrinologist in my country who understands the interaction of the adrenals and the thyroid, and every time I’ve asked one to test my adrenals, he’s either refused or ordered the wrong test and read it the wrong way.

So maybe the Isocort will help a bit?