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DHEA supplement for 45 yr female fibromyalgia, menopasal symptoms?

Does anyone have weird symptoms? its 25 mg walmart, i have blurry like vision , dream vivid like wacky nightmares I have goiters on 37.5mg syn thyroid is this beneficial or not SERIOUS responses have multiple allergies to foods and environmental and Medication

Update:

my multi-nodular goitors have shrunk, my painful collar bone painfree. swollen glands painful neck pain free, vit D dangerously low, back to normal b12 low normal now.. growing fatty beady lipomas muscle pain fatigue insomnia present ice cube feet and hands.. no heart issues ...

Update 2:

magnesium? sounds alot like me... my blood work is normal? just vit b12 vit D was off..? should i get a blood test? restless legs big time being a home care giver constant standing!

Update 3:

My DHEA I take it 1 x a week , it gives me weird dreams, and hot flashes. is that working ? or should i break it into 4 pc? lower the dose?

I use my TENS unit alot on my legs and i can get to sleep, i bought a portable u/s unit too. for my muscle aches and spasm since that is suppose to help with fibroyalgia and CFS MFP .

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  • Renie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    First off, hopefully, you are taking a quality multiple vitamin mineral. It sounds like your are overdosing on DHEA. Additional supplementation of Magnesium (in chelated form) will resolve the restless legs (avoid Magnesium Oxide because it's worthless). If possible, find a doctor who will test your thyroid using saliva instead of blood. If you cannot, then be sure you are blood tested for thyroid antibodies, TSH, Free T3 (not Total T3) and Free T4 (not Total T4). Your Vitamin D level should be at least 50 ng but not over 70 ng. Whether or not if you reached menopause a complete hormone panel is a must(saliva tests are the best).

    You could have impaired conversion of T4 to T3 and need an additional drug called Cytomel (T3). Problems being outside of the blood stream so it is not showing up on the blood test because it is intercellular.

    Be very cautious because thyroid cancer is slow growing even with healthy blood tests!

    Research HYPOthyroidism not hyperthyroidism. The symptoms you are describing are being offset from the hypothyroidism. It is all interconnected!

    Research at these excellent thyroid sites:

    hotzehwc.com

    drhotze.com

    thyroid-info.com

    Good luck and I hope you feel better soon!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I had a goiter also and DHEA is good and Vitamin B-12 is also good for you, Also Vitamin C at least 3000 mg a day, and 200 mg of selenium I also take, and Iodoral, their website www.optimox.com and www.curezone.com has info on this in their supplements section, and the Iodoral will help with a lot of your symptoms , I also take Vitamin D-3 my compounding pharmacist says its the one to take. I only take magnesium about once a week , it makes bowel movements very difficult. Since I have been on Iodoral and slowly worked my dosage up, my thyroid med has been lowered, and that suits me just fine, I plan on reaching my goal this year and hopefully getting off of levoxyl, which the doctor says may just happen she has lowered my dosage consistenly over the past two years,and the benefits of Iodoral are wonderful, at least they have been for me. another good website about this is www.drbrownstein.com he has writtten several books about this, and all are backed up by legitimate medical studies. Hope this helps...

    Source(s): hyperthyroid with graves disease(had a goiter but not anymore)
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.achilleshealthmart.com/Vitamins/magnesi...

    read the abovelink... i'm not suggesting that you purchase that supplement by any stretch of theimagination.... just read it....... itsounds to me like you are suffering from a magnesium deficiency.... excess calcium in your system will destroy vitamin d and inhibit effective absorption of magnesium ....... ditch any milk and dairy and eat more green vegies like kale, chard, celery, broccolli, buk choy ..... or just juice the celery and drink that ..... very rich in magnesium.... foods like organic brown rice, organic nutsand seeds and fresh wild salmon and sardines are also rich sources of magnesium.... organic with the rice and nuts and seeds to avoid the nasty chemicals and sulfites they use to preserve the commercial varieties.......... ditch the supplement that is giving you blurry vision and wild dreams.... no point taking something for the health benefits if those are the side effects.

    EDIT

    You need magnesium for the production of sufficient B6 (pyridoxine) and you need sufficient B6 for the production of B12 ....... are you getting muscle cramps and excessive thirst and excessive urination too?? they're symptoms of B6 deficiency ...... magnesium rich foods and B6 rich foods will resolve those symptoms ....... leafy greens and lean red meats or fresh fishes or leafy greens and brown rice or rolled oats ..... don't add more supplements buddy cos you don't know precisely what will ever be in them..... eat more green vegies .... bananas too are rich in magnesium as is fresh salmon and sardines ...... vitamin D deficiency has something to do with your calcium intake i believe....... either the calcium you are ingesting you are intolerant to such as milk and dairy..... or something is trashing your calcium supplies...... some ingredient in one of the supplements perhaps?? or alcohol, sodas and pop or painkillers will do it too ...... as will most otc meds ... juice the celery and try it out and cut back on the milk and dairy and eat rolled oats, lean meat and fish or brown rice.

    peace

  • 1 decade ago

    Lots and lots of information at stopthethyroidmadness.com and realthyroidhelp.com, including stuff about DHEA. 37.5 synthroid is doing NOTHING for you if you've got goiters. C'mon over!

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