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----------------------------------------------------------- From: Freesia4422 Message 1 in Discussion Greetings to All. Great board; Kudos to the Mods. I was diagnosed with Sheehan's 29 years ago about 6 months after the birth of my son. This was a complete infarction (destruction) of the Anterior Pituitary, so no function of any of those hormones. That meant a complete replacement of the Cortisol, Thyroid, Estrogens, etc. In all truth, I do really well. I'm on 20 mgs of Cortef AM, 10 PM...50 mgs of Synthroid three days a week, 75 Synthroid four days a week, light Evista, light Lipator. I've had wonderful doctors that are conservative yet very skilled at Eno topics as well as general medicine. I take my meds AM on an empty stomach, wait thirty minutes for the Cortef to hit my system and then I have about 6-7 hours of stamina. Then PM Cortef and I have about 3 more hours of stamina before I go into 'relax' mode. For some reason, the thyroid dose and the cortisol dose go together well, and I stay at a sound weight, eat good foods, and exercise during work things mostly all right. The extreme heat is tough, so I really pace myself at such summer times. No kissing babies or toddlers much for me, given those little precious germs can get me really sick and I'm down for a week or so. Needless to say, over the years I've learned a huge amount about the Pituitary as well as the affected glands such as Thyroid and Adrenals etc. If I can be of any help I will be for sure. This is a wonderful team of folks giving aid to others in a very complicated subject. Take care out there! ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/PituitaryChat/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
