Hi HV,

I'm new to this forum but after scanning old posts I see that this might be a place where I can get some advice. I've been on Dr Lam's protocol for adrenal fatigue for about six months already, I'm 25/f and have been up and down since with the only significant improvement being that my mood swings, anxiety and Depression are almost completely gone (which I am very, very grateful for). My symptoms of AF were moodiness, Depression and anxiety and bursts of rage (I felt like my mind was out of control), weight gain, VERY bad dizziness in the summer, low blood pressure (and have had this all my life), incredible insomnia (my no.1 complaint), heart palpitations when trying to relax at times, feeling drained after a workout, and more recently after I started the protocol, weird digestion problems - cramps, bloating, diarrhea, which I thought I might want to take care of with a parasite cleanse as I had eaten some questionable things.
So throughout this whole protocol my sleep has been dipping into what I call "rock bottom" - 2-4 hours of sleep a night. Usually I fall asleep exhausted only to wake up a couple of hours later and I never get back to sleep when I am at rock bottom. At best, these days, I get 8 hours of sleep. I feel like I need 10 or more (oh, to get back to those days when I couldn't pry myself from the bed and could sleep all day - which DID happen right before the insomnia. NB I have never had insomnia before in my life before the last 6 months.)

Lam's protocol hasn't visibly helped me but of course they claim it's because I went ahead and did a humaworm parasite cleanse in February without their approval, which toxified my system further (and they may be right here?)
In fact I felt so good at the beginning of that cleanse, and SO bad after that I thought i had to detox my system and did a Liver Flush (hadn't read your info on flushes yet). I slept great the night of the flush but unfortunately back to rock bottom sleep since. Am now considering taking humaworm herbs for a kidney and Liver Flush as humaworm advised me to. I thought that my liver might be sluggish and that is why sleeping pills keep me up all night AND the next night these days. Also in Chinese medicine the gallbladder is connected to sleep.

I apologize for the long post. I am seeking alternative advice as Lam tells me one thing, humaworm tells me another, and the only person I really trust is my acupuncturist but in specialized matters like this I think she and I don't know that much about it.

I read what you said HV about the synthetic vitamins that Lam prescribes and I feel like it's only too true. I've been waiting to feel a positive effect from them but nothing. They say that recovery is gradual but of course I'm desperate and can't tell, no matter what i do, if it has helped or not. I am clueless as to what I should even do next... take the herbs for my liver? Abandon that plan? Focus on my adrenals?
I am looking into glycine as you wrote before and see if it will help.

All the other aspects of Lam's protocol, which in fact is quite broad (breathing, yoga, stress reduction, small snack before bed, cut out all Sugar and simple carbs) seem great to me. Just the supplements are questionable.

I'm so confused about what to take care of first, detoxing my body (if it in fact needs detoxing) or my adrenals, as apparently my adrenals won't get better if my system is toxic, but if I detox my system it will hurt my adrenals!

Same goes for sleep - I won't sleep until my adrenals are better but until I sleep, how can my adrenals heal?

Thank you...