I replace ALL my hormones. This brought me back to life.
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- since early twenties, multiple years
- Published
- Oct 2020
Summary
thingsvarious systematically replaced testosterone, cortisol, thyroid, growth hormone and aldosterone after years of "nightmare"-level fatigue, largely managing it himself because, in his words, "many endocrinologists are shit." He says his energy moved from the 5th to the 95th percentile and life now feels like a "dream," but the post's own title shows he is explicitly unsure whether such an aggressive multi-hormone regimen is sustainable for decades, and he frames it as a trade of possible long-term risk for years of function now.
What they credit
Credits POTS medication, Hormones & thyroid, Fludrocortisone / Florinef, Growth hormone / sermorelin, Hydrocortisone / cortisol, Sex hormones (progesterone, estrogen, HCG), Testosterone, Thyroid (T3, T4, NDT).
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