Increased hunger? 
Piuma
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Does anyone know if increased hunger is result of low or high cortisol?
Yesterday for no apparent reason, I had a very emotional day. I cried at the drop of a hat..
Needless to say, I was in a stressed state the rest of the day. I had the worst hunger pangs. Constantly needed to eat...didn't drink much all day but when I did, I was in the bathroom a lot. Sure enough this morning I woke up at 3am sharp which I usually do following a stressful day.
Is this signs of high or low cortisol.
Let me know. Still trying to decide if my treatment plan should be based on high or low cortisol.
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- Re: Increased hunger? Sherpa
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Stress seriously depletes your energy. Specifically... glycogen stores in the muscles. If I have had a physically and emotionally intense day my body craves carbohydrates and it is an appropriate time to eat more of them in a balanced meal. But not as an "emotional distracting myself by stuffing up on food" response. Just eat until the hunger goes away and you're 75% full.
If you are working full-time and stressed you most likely have what is known around here as "HIGH CORTISOL." Which is good news! More treatable, more resersable, system is still functioning. But it sounds like your system is stressed and faltering, struggling to maintain the high output that your work and family life demand.
When you get LOW CORTISOL - like I had when I became unable to work or read - and sometimes after nasty crashes... it difficult to get out of bed and do simple things like laundry, and you have CRUSHING "I'm gonna / wanna die" type depression. Not like "my life sucks, this is such a complicated mess" Depression but more like you're stuck on an barren arctic island with a broken lifeboat and there is no other possibility besides starving or freezing to death. And you soberly sit there, staring at the wall... with no energy to read... thinking about how tragic it is.
What are 3 things you can do to cut your stress levels down.. no matter what it takes? Where can you swallow your pride, cut a corner, ask for help, get rid of an responsibility? What do you do (watch the news, surf the web, get into an avoidable argument, obsess about researching TOO MUCH) to lower your brains processoer load?
- Re: Increased hunger? aerowallah
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This is a reply to # 2,213,669Piuma, you're aproaching this waaay too simplistically. If you are going to stampede in with cortisol treatments get a saliva test to confirm cortisol first. Realize that these symptoms are part of an interplay of hormones. Supplements are inferior to targeted organic food and give your body/brain more to rebalance. I had mood swings and mild hypos once I started to seriously rest and then I slowly rebalanced. But the mood swings can return when you regain strength and your body starts to seriously detox.
- Re: Increased hunger? Piuma
10 y
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This is a reply to # 2,213,802The problem is that my tests say one thing but my body has paradoxical effects to supplements meant to lower cortisol.
I try to rest as best as I can but certain things are unavoidable. For example running 2 or 3 errands on a Sunday might leave me agitated (that feeling like there is a motor in my stomach that wants to keep going).
I don't have the bedridden fatigue but if I get up from lying position, my body gets hit with adrenaline overload.
I wish it were that simply as resting and organic food choices. But I am single mom who needs to work to support my kids and all these treatments with ND have depleted my bank account so I have little left over to splurge on organic foods. I try my best between food, rest and supplements. I do what I can. That's way I feel I have such a narrow margin to get this right.
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- Re: Increased hunger? Piuma
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- Re: Increased hunger? Piuma
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This is a reply to # 2,213,669Hey Sherpa,
Thanks for the reply...
I feel that if I have the right diagnosis that I can get the right treatment going. After my first adrenal episode, I wasted 8 months with doctors who tried to treat to the test of high cortisol results. Thats what the tests said but then I felt worse.
I point in two directions,,
Yes, I have high morning and bedtime cortisol but during the day if I over exert myself I get super amped up, then Tired then this weird feeling of nerves in my stomach.
The feeling of being super agitated in a crowd has subsided a bit since I started pregnenolone and glandulars.
So that makes me think that adreneline is my driving force and when that kicks in my body is able to still produce some cortisol with it. But then there are days like last Sunday where I had this bone crushing depression. I cried at everything. Felt worthless, overwhelmed (the Depression had come on suddenly after two busy and good days).
I started using a devise called alpha-stim. It's supposed to help clam the limbic part of your Brian. I started using this past week along with 10 min of meditation and fell asleep at 9 and was able to stay asleep for most of the night. If I woke up, it was for a few brief seconds. (I am still on a benzo..hoping to get off). But even with the benzo I wa not able to sleep thru the night, so this devise must work. I think laughingdogs used something similar).
Last night I did not use my devise and was up at 3,4,5 AM. I woke up from nightmares and then started having anxious and panicky feelings over stupid things (I wonder whatever happened to my friend from high school), then I would want to jump out of bed and pace. This kept me up for most of the night.
In a few days I will try the licorice root to see if that helps.
In meantime, will continue my deep breathing and stim devise...
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