Re: Woohoo! 2 Things that have really helped me with adrenal fatigue.

I take 20mg of hydrocortisone per day. The bottle says take 1 10mg pill 2x a day, so I did that. Don't trust bottles. The stopthethyroidmadness site said the adrenals need to be fed at least every 8 hours, so now I take four 5mg doses per day, 1 on arising, 1 before bed, & 2 during the day.

I had to diagnose myself about the adrenals, with I did from the sttm site. The first doctor I saw would only give me a blood test, which said I was fine. He said urine tests, which the sttm site recommended, were "worthless." I did find a doctor who is better than that - though I have to make a 5 hour round trip to see him. He let me do the urine testing & put me on the medicine. Even he was recently thinking of "trying someting else" re the adrenals, i.e. some supplements. Dr. Lam says this is one time you need the prescription & having tried just about everything else I for one surely believe him.

You truly have to be your own advocate & research even, if necessary, get your meds apart from them if they won't take you seriously, thru online foreign countries. (That's if you get really desperare only. Pretty pricey.)