Jim's Place

Still truckin'!!!

I haven't been on the Internet much lately. The last three weeks I've had a cold and flu-like symptoms almost constantly. That has put a real damper on my program and I've only been able to get in an occasional workout. I'm not sure why I've been having so much trouble. It could simply be the changing weather affecting my allergies. My doctor doesn't think that it is related to lowering my hormone dosages. However, I have managed to drop 10 pounds in the last three weeks. And that is nothing to sneeze at (pun intended!).

Hope everyone is doing well. I just started week four and hopefully I won't continue to have problems. Frankly, it's pretty encouraging to know that I can still lose weight even when I don't feel well.

Making progress!

Hey gang!   

How the heck are ya!   

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately but I'm just now getting over having the flu for the last week. This is week 2 of C7 and although the flu hindered my workouts a great deal I got back in the gym today. I actually made progress last week despite everything. I lost 5lbs and probably best of all my sense of well-being is the best it has been in YEARS! I attribute that mainly to lowering my cortisol medication to the lowest level it's been since I started on it in 2001.

I didn't realize how much the elevated cortisol levels were draining my energy. Even at my best last year I rarely had enough energy to do much more than my workout each day. But I'm confident that before too long I'll not only be able to work out consistently but do the other things that are also important to me...

I sure do appreciate your support and I expect to be back on here regularly and do what I can to give back to my BFL buddies...

Too much too soon?

As I explained in a previous post I had been gradually decreasing my cortisol medication with the goal of reversing my pituitary disorder. I dropped down to 10 mg last week and then to 5 mg this last Sunday. However, I'm wondering if I may be dropping it too fast.  For the last several days I have felt sick at my stomach and head needed 12 to 15 hours sleep every day.  I also have experienced a lot of emotional turmoil and occasionally have felt a bit lightheaded.  I'm not sure if these symptoms are related to dropping the medication dosage but they could be.

But I also seem to have picked up a cold so maybe that's the main problem.  To be on the safe side, though, I'm going to go back up to 10 mg for this week and talk to my doctor before lowering it again.  I'm still hopeful that I can reverse this condition but that's still not confirmed.  Hopefully, within a week or so I'll know for sure...