Adrenals? Adisons disease? Adrenal inssuficiency?
Hi everyone.So I've been suffering from an unknown illness for about 3 years. I've been to multiple doctors and had multiple blood tests to check for diabetes, hypoglycemia, my endocrine system like my thyriod and kidneys, all my organs including the heart and found there is nothing wrong.
My symptoms are that of hypoglycemia. I feel that I have low blood
Sugar 3 times a day and when I check to see if I do on my diabetes meter, the numbers are totally fine everytime. But I get these attacks that I need food right away or I feel like I'm gonna faint. I get weakness in my whole body, numbness in my hand and feet, feel very sleep, heart palpitations, cramps in my legs, dizziness, sometimes I feel drunk. I also am very skinny. I cant gain weight. I have no muscle at all and lost it all. I cant even gain muscle. If I were to exercise, I get that hypoglyecmia feeling but way worse. I almost feel like im going to die. I can't exercise anymore because of it. When I get those hypoglycemia attacks I'll drunk fruit juice or some sort of sugar(preferably natural) I feel even worse. So I know it has nothing to do with blood sugar. Something else must be off in my body that's causing these symptoms.
Symptoms I have everyday are fatigue, weakness, extreme thirst, hypoglycemia 3 times a day.
I also would like to say I eat very healthy. I eat 100% organic. I have my daily servings of fruit and vegetables, I know what im allergic too because I've done
food allergy tests. Im allergic to gluten and dairy. I eat snacks in between my meals because I have too. I don't eat processed food. I don't eat refined
Sugar because if I did i would feel horrible. I've checked from vitamin deficiencies and I was deficient in vitamin D, coq10, zinc, omega 3s. I take high quality supplements for those.
I also take methylated b vitamin supplement since I have a mthfr gene mutation. I tried
parasite cleansing 3 times, I Candida cleared. I did see works, I saw pinworms, tapeworms, liver flukes, I saw Candida in my stool.
I checked my adrenals a couple weeks ago with a lab. I spit in a tube 4 times a day and they found I had really low cortisol in morning and all throughout the day. They diagnosed me with adrenal inssuficiency. I googled symptoms of addisons disease and I had every symptom! I was happy to know what I had. I went to the doctor today to try and get medication and the doctor didn't believe I had addisons. I showed him the results and he said i had low cortisol because I gave birth 8 months ago. I told him I had it before I got pregnant and he just didn't want to hear it. He told me i don't look sick and that I'm fine. He even said it was just anxiety. I wish it was anxiety but it's not. I obviously have low cortisol and need to be treated. What you guys think?
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