In your research, I'm sure you came across the womentowomen.com/adrenalfatigue. I know for me, I have had fatigue issues all my life, but I always pushed myself, so it seemed natural to be fatigued because of it.

I know also when anxiety attacks sat in at the age of 42, when I lost my career (the only thing that meant anything to me in my life), the fatigue got even worse & I wasn't doing anything at that time, so I blamed it on the anxiety. I know that our mental issues do have a huge effect on the physical, but I think it is even worse when there is a fatigue issue underlying it.

Every test I have ever had for CFS, or other issues has always come back negative, so have never been Dx'ed with the anything physical causing the fatigue.

I will be interested to see what responses you get to your post. The internet does have a lot of information on the adrenal fatigue & how it is related to the cortisol level & how stress playes a role in that. I have a weight loss, not a weight gain problem. I know that when I was in the hospital for IV nutrition after my Mother died & I went through a horrible ID theft trauma with that, my Dr said that the blood test came back with my cortisol way out of balance (guess what...it's related to stress so why wouldn't it be out of balance after what I had gone through....duh).

Hope you get some answers to very evasive syndrome,
Debbie