kiran
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Ray has mentioned that the thymus is converted to sugar in times of stress. Hence the "involution" of the thymus.
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Cells of the thymus are sensitive to glucose deprivation, and even in the presence of glucose, cortisol prevents them from using glucose, causing them to take up fatty acids. The thymic cells die easily when exposed either to excess cortisol, or deficient glucose. The polyunsaturated fatty acids linoleate, arachidonate, and eicosapentaenoic, are especially toxic to thymic cells by preventing their inactivation of cortisol, increasing its action.
Charlie said:He meant as clear as day that it was physically eating it up. I think he also said it was doing the same to the pancreas, or maybe it was thymus. But I do remember for sure that thyroid was one of them.
Jenn said:Sounds like your liver ran out of fuel detoxing with the charcoal. I hope you ate something when you woke up due to hunger.
Beebop said:I've been having an intense time.
For the past week I've been having unpleasant hyperthyroid symptoms. Waking several times a night - every two hours - needing to eat, with night sweats, palpitations, hyperventilation. Getting mild chest panic and leg tension.
This has all been during my luteal phase. Now that I'm into the next phase and my progesterone has dropped these hyper symptoms have subsided.
I need to adjust my dose. I dropped my dose of T4 once already this year in January following some similar (less intense) hyperthyroid symptoms. I'm nervous about this and hope I won't suddenly feel hypo again later. But the hyper symptoms are strong enough not to be able to ignore. My TSH is 0.1
I hope this means my thyroid is recovering and needing less T4. But it could be that I'm having a thyroid storm. How would I know the difference?
The good news is that my thyroid antibodies are much, much, much lower than when I was first tested (years ago)
In the midst of all this I don't know how to attempt to switch to using T3.
Beebop said:Yes I asked him first. You're right there is a lot going on and I do need the advice. He kindly replied, but it didn't really enlighten me, so I may email again.