FMS Hormone Connection?

[<Julie T.>]

If you have been diagnosed with CFS or FMS, please, please get your hormone levels checked. I became sick at age 18 and remained sick for 10 years. Four years into it, I was diagnosed with FMS and a year or two later with CFS. Nothing I tried did much to keep me from feeling sick most of the day. For eight years I couldn’t hold a regular job successfully. The medical community didn't help me much until...recently a very progressive doctor found my thyroid to be enlarged, my adrenal gland to be hypofunctioning and my progesterone to be way low. Now with correcting those, I am almost completely better! (Still adjusting some levels).

I had been tested for thyroid levels before, but sadly most doctors use the unreliable THS test that is not accurate and misses so many cases. If you are going to be tested, insist on the *Free T Levels.* And for treatment, the medicine that has the most T levels in it is Armour Thyroid, a drug many doctors don't believe in, so you may have to insist on this too.

I would be happy to talk to anyone about my experience in hopes that it may turn their life around too. Please email me at mystijul@citynet.net, and be patient waiting for a reply, because I am not on the computer as often anymore, because I am having too much fun being active again :-)

Best Regards,
Julie Thorn