I had to go out of town for work and was stuck with eating out again. The office I go to is well aware I can’t have gluten so they always order me a gluten free sandwich. Up until this week, there’s been no issue with it.

Well, this time within about 20 minutes of finishing it, my head started getting that oh so familiar foggy feeling and I began silently cursing the deli that made my sandwich.

As I’ve said MANY times before, I don’t expect anyone to cater to my ridiculous diet. However, if you say you can and you will, then actually do it! It’s not like the effects of me being “glutened” only last for a few minutes. It will be days, if not weeks, before I’m feeling better again because they decided to be careless while telling me the food was safe! UGH!

So that night I headed to the grocery store to find foods that didn’t require any type of refrigeration (no easy feat!). Then I made friends with the people at the local Chick-fil-a, which is one of the few places I’ve never been sick from (*knock on wood*).

Cortef Has Dairy?!

When I went to my thyroid doctor last, he said my adrenals weren’t looking so great in the afternoon and I needed to supplement with Cortef again but only as needed. Basically if I’m not under any stress or doing any major activity, I can skip it. If I’m going to be in stressful situations, it was probably best to take it. Since he told me that, I’ve probably taken it less than 10 times. I noticed each time I took it, my head would feel a little off but it was usually short lived (few hours at most). I figured it was just because I wasn’t taking it on a regular schedule.

I was looking up online about how long I have to quit taking iron before getting my ferritin levels tested again (5 days in case you’re wondering – I go back on the 11th) and I saw a link about Cortef. I click on it and it’s about the ingredients. Guess what’s in it? LACTOSE! No wonder my head felt off after I took it. So needless to say, I won’t be taking it again and I’ll have to figure out something else for that. So freaking annoying!!

Ferritin Levels and Thyroid Labs

I’m not suppose to go back to my thyroid doctor until January to be retested again. But, one, I’m impatient. And, two, my hair is STILL falling out. So I will go back to my primary on Monday and hopefully will be able to get him to test all of my levels again. I’m wondering if my thyroid is still not where it should be. And I’m wondering if taking this iron is doing anything at all – hopefully it is. I guess we’ll see some time next week when I get results back!

I’ll post back with results!