Adrenal fatigue hell/rant 
ma3s
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How likely is it to have adrenal fatigue without showing real signs of it on lab results?I posted my old saliva cortisol tests on here awhile ago but i have never been able to guess if it's ok or not.I know i had talked to someone before that has hashimoto's and they said they had similar results to mine and benefited from taking isocort.
I took isocort before but never felt any results good or bad.I didnt take it for more than a week but i i was up to about 12 tablets a day!Just didn't feel anything!I honestly dont know what to do anymore.my life feels hopeless and im tired of my mind racing all the time.
I can see a natropathic doctor but if my cortisol shows that it isnt that bad,then i figure i wont get treated for it.I really dont know what medicines or things i can try.Something for my adrenals is all i can think of.SSri's surely didnt work.lol.Id give anything for some relief!Sure people can relate, but f*** this is hell!!!just pure torture!
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant feo66
11 y
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,114,111Depending on what is going on for that particular day, the saliva test might show fine. I have had the odd one show that everything is ok.
What are your symptoms?
Are you wire ... but also tired.
Are you tired all day, but get a boost of energy just before bed time.
Do you startle easy
Are you irritable
Do you lack emotions
Do you have foggy thinking
Do you crave salt
When on a road trip, do you have to urinate every 30-45 minutes, with a high urinary urgency
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant ma3s
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,114,235I have been dealing with these problems since i was young but definitely the wired/tired feeling.I don't know if i have the boost of energy towards night,but can be hard to fall a sleep.
Startle very easily/irritable extremely.Yes with the lack of emotions and been foggy headed for a veryyyyy long time.
Crave sugars mostly i believe but just about any junk food will do.Also urinary issues.Once i goto the bathroom...ill stand there cause i know in a few mins im just gonna be back in there wanting to go again.Especially at night.Up 2-3 times having to go.
Im on 90mg Armour and have been for a few months with little change.never felt any better except the first time i ever touched thyroid medicine.Then within 3 hours i felt better!Not placebo i can tell you that much.Only lasted that day and never felt anything again.thanks for the help
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant feo66
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,248Well. You definitely have some signs of having a dominant sympathetic nervous system.
You are stuck in a state of stress.
Frequent urination can be caused be stress. Increased Cortisol reduces anti diuretic hormone (ADH). Lower ADH results in increased urine flow.
I had this for YEARS.
Startling easy is another classic sign of sympathetic dominance.
If you are not yet having an afternoon energy crash, you are not too bad yet.
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant ma3s
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,437Thanks for the response.I don't have energy at all throughout the day,thats the problem.Been like that for a long time before the diagnosis of hypothyroidism/hashimoto's.Just wondering but have you been on any hydrocortisone for it?If so,did it make you feel better?I don't want to go taking anti depressants again cause that gets my adrenaline/anxiety pumping!
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant feo66
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,460After a few years on this forum, in my humble opinion, hydrocortisone should be avoided except for those near being hospitalized.
It is a life-line, but one that is very hard to come off.
Also, the adrenals make much more than cortisol, and HC can't help with any of other other hormones the adrenal glands produce.
Some people end up regretting trying HC.
Just search around the forum for HC and hydrocortisone.
It was a life line for Marie64. But she is slowly tapering since doing the nutritional balancing program
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- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant ma3s
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This is a reply to # 2,114,572Guess it's best i dont try it then if it would more than likely just make me worse :/ That was really my only thought for fixing the problems im having right now.
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant feo66
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,662Unfortunately. It is not that simple. Do you have a steady meditation practice yet?
Twice per day. That will go a long way to calming your nervous system.
There are many avenues to consider to get better. So relax, read through previous posts of things that are helping people.
Your high level of stress even comes through in the way you type :)
Meditation, Yoga, "slow breathing", mindfulness, lay of the news, avoid action movies, don't over exercise.
Good luck to you.- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant ma3s
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,745I have never looked into meditation but will see what i can do.Anything that helps im open to try :) thanks
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant feo66
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,114,766
There are a ton of postives from meditation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17940025
lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1801007
It was found that after meditation, serum cortisol levels were significantly reduced, serum total protein level significantly increased, and systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and pulse rate significantly reduced.
It even turns off stress related genes
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18596974
This study provides the first compelling evidence that the RR elicits specific gene expression changes in short-term and long-term practitioners.
RR = Relaxation Response, a form of meditation from Herbert Benson
Good Luck. You will feel like a caged animal whe you first try to meditate. This will pass with time
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- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant ma3s
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This is a reply to # 2,114,818Thanks once again feo66 :) It's all new to me but sounds like it will help.
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- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant beatty57
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This is a reply to # 2,114,111Do not know much about fatigue, don’t have a problem with it, But I do know a lot about vitamins, minerals, supplements and herbals. Twenty years of research fifty years using them. The eyes and the adrenals use and need vitamin C the most. Any shortage to the adrenals can throw the whole system out of whack. Health problems, sugar, injuries, stress, etc. draws vitamin C away from the adrenals and eyes gets cataracts. ??????
Love this internet page 'Vitamin C, Insulin, And Why Tigers Don’t Get Scurvy'.
- Re: Adrenal fatigue hell/rant SpaceMan100
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This is a reply to # 2,114,111It took the old isocort a whole month for it to work for me, but the old (sheeps cortisol) had a small positive effect. I am severely disabled with AF.
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