I need some advise

[Markus H.]

Hi,

first I want to thank you for creating this website. I am from Germany and according to my doctor I also suffer from adrenal fatique. I am 23 years old, male.
I have been suffering since my childhood. My father and my sister have similar symptoms so I think it`s genetic. In my whole life I only had like 3-5 days where I felt alive and normal. But I can`t say what I did there so that I felt normal.
I want to list some of my symptoms which are important:

- No energy, lack of motivation
- Underweight (I just can`t gain weight, no matter what I do)
- difficulty feeling happiness or sadness (emotionally numb)
- depression, anxiety, nervous, stress intolerance
- light sensivity, can`t concentrate, brain fog
- sensivity to cold and warm temperature
- allergies
- can`t sweat, dry skin, frequent urinationdysbiosis

I made a Cortisol-DHEA-Salvia test before (3 months ago), the results are:

Cortisol-Morning (8:15am): 16.20 + ng/ml (reference range 1.00 - 11.30)
Cortisol-Midday (2:45pm): 2.54 ng/ml (reference range 0.30 - 5.70)
Cortisol-Evening (6:45pm): 1.54 ng/ml (reference range 0.30 -3.30)
DHEA-Evening (6:45pm): 639.0 + pg/ml (reference range 104.0-578.0)

Cortisol is high in the morning, which means there`s stress in the night.

At the moment I take Novothyral (T4 and T3) for my hypothyroidism (which doesnt make me feel any better, my diagnosis: TSH 2.4mE/l, FT3 4.3ng/l, FT4 1.2ng/dl) and Hydrocortison 10mg/a day (I began taking Hydrocortison 3 days ago). I don`t see any improvement with my symptoms by taking Hydrocortison so far, nothing noticable that much. My doctor also gave me Prednisolon 5mg in case Hydrocortison doesn`t make me feel better after 1 month.

So my questions are:

Is it okay that I take Hydrocortison, even though I have high Cortisol in the moring?
One of the most intresting thing is that I dont`t sweat! My skin is dry. By searching in your website I learned it is because of lack of Aldosteron. What can I do about it ?
I was looking forward to order Pregnenolon (which is the mother of all hormones). What do you think about it? Will it fix the Aldosteron problem (lack of sweat) too ?
My Doctor also recommended L-Lysin 500mg along other things and I was going to order another Salvia test for Estradiol, Progesteron and Testosteron. Should I go for it?

My diagnosis:

- chronic lyme disease
- chlamydia infection
- Vitamin-receptor-D blockade (chronic active infections)
- dysbiosis of the gut
- food allergies
- problem with spine
- Adynamia

I would be happy if you can answer my questions and help me

Have a nice day.

[leona]

Hi Markus,

There's not a lot on activity on the forum but I'll try and help answer your questions, I too have had adrenal fatigue for decades.  It's great you found Feo's blog as well.  Here's a link to the nutritional balancing introduction www.adrenaladvice.com/nutritional-balancing-intro.shtml   I believe rebalancing the minerals in the body would go a long way to healing many if not all of your issues.   Also read Dr  Wilsons article on remineralizing the body drlwilson.com/Articles/REMINERALIZE.htm

The things you're trying I've tried myself, Thyroid, natural hormones, cortisol and all helped a little at the time but never really got me that far.  Nutrional balancing has several components like a clean simple diet, life style, detox methods etc.  Until you incorporate all of these things I believe it's hard to heal.  But I do believe YOUR body absolutely has the ability to heal if you give if the nutrition and environment it needs.  It's a long process so think of it as a different way to live. 

Read the two articles and see if you can connect with any of the concepts.

 

[adrenalhealing]

Sorry you are having problems and they started very early for you.

But its good that you are still only 23 and have many young years to enjoy if you recover.

I only wished I found out about adrenal fatigue when I was your age.

I would not recommend preg as hormones, herbs and glandulars tend to bring on stimulation in those with severe adrenal fatigue.

It is better to use gentle vitamins and minerals to replenish the body rather than stimulants.

Also toxins could very well explain many symptoms such as anxiety insomnia. But trying to release toxins without ways to expel them only leaves toxins circulating in your blood and could worsen symptoms.

Something least invasive to try first would be an infrared sauna lamp and then see if that helps you. It should help you sweat.

[Adrenal Sufferrer]

Ashwagandha has been known to be a great supplement for adrenal fatigue (lowering cortisol etc). However, when I took it, together with B5, B3, Vitamin C, B12 (had to lower the dosage from 100 to 50ug), I developed depression. After getting off the Ashwaghanda, the depression subsided (after a few weeks). Any idea why this might happen? 

I did experience depression when taking Rhodiola and L-Theanine but I understand these can be stimulants and adversely affect you depending on the stage of adrenal fatigue. Any help or similar experience will be greatly appreciated.