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Stages of Adrenal Exhaustion

There are three stages of adrenal exhaustion which include:
Stage 1

The first stage, which is called hyper-adrenalism, is characterised by abnormally high cortisol levels and low DHEA levels. High cortisol may cause poor sleep, sugar cravings, confusion, weight gain, hot flushes, water retention, glucose intollerance and muscle wasting. Cortisol also decreases serotonin and melatonin levels which may cause depression and insomnia, respectively. It is also an immunosuppressive which may result in a compromised immune system resulting with frequent infections and illness.

HIgh cortisol also can inhibit the metabolism of T4, a thyroid prohormone produced by the thyroid gland, into its active T3 form. This can create a thyroid hormone imbalance known as reverse T3 dominance which can further exacerabate your adrenal symptoms.
Stage 2

During stage two DHEA remains low while cortisol supplies will hover in the low-normal range leaving you feeling tired and stressed, but functional.
Stage 3

During stage 3 cortisol finally falls to low levels throughout most of the day just like DHEA leaving you with low adrenal function.

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Treatments

Treatment of this condition may include:
(1) Learn to say no! In order to completely heal from this condition you must stop giving your power away to others and to your ideals and beliefs in order to prevent further kidney energy leaking. You need to learn to act according to your truth and by how you feel and not by what you are conditioned into believeing what is expected of you. You also need to stop being in disregard of yourself. Be more self loving and stop doing what you know is bad for you. Techniques such as esoteric healing and chakra puncture can help facilitate this process. This step is most important because if you seek treatment in the form of a pill or supplement without addressing this you will only improve your bodily function but will not truely heal and restore harmony back into your body. Restoring function without addressing the underlying energy will only bury the ill energy deeper in your body which will arise again in the future with a greater force and thus more severe symptoms.

(2) Support your physiology with the use of certain nutrient cofactors which are essential for adrenal hormone production. Mild to moderate cases may benefit from the use of certain nutrients to aid adrenal function. More moderate to severe cases may require bioidentical adrenal hormone supplementation at physiological doses in order to restore optimal adrenal hormone levels. We tend to caution patients from using adapogen herbs such as the Ginsengs which tend to overstimulate the adrenals when they need to rest which provide short term benefits but often result in cortisol levels crashing after long term use. Herbs are not recommended in stage 2 or 3 adrenal fatigue and if used in stage 1 only for short term. For more detailed information on the treatment of adrenal fatigue including bioidentical hormones, doses used and ongoing monitoring of this condition you are required to log into the free members section.
(3) Generally your body will require plenty of relaxation, an adrenal diet (supplied during a consultation) and good quality sleep in order for it to heal and repair any damage done. This is a time of self nurturing and self love to aid the healing process. This process can be facilitated by the gentle breath meditation.

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I think this is basicly what my Dr and my T say is causing my strange symptoms. It make sence to me after reading about it. It does not stop me form wondering how thay can know with out checking for other things like kidney issues, adrenal levels, Addison's, insilan resistance ect. I feel better knowing my heart is nothing serious but the tachicardia is still a causing problems like feeling faint and low energy. My Dr say there really no real way to know how to get threw this its just one step at a time. I have been put on sleeping meds to help my body recover better. The restless leg pain has gotten better since sleeping better. My pain while walking is better as well. Strange thing i noticed today was my pulse rate was more reasonable around 109 while sitting in the car in the heat, when it has been 145 on hot days over the last 2 months. After checking my pulse i noticed I was sweating heaps and that when I realised I have not been sweating much for a long time now. I started at the jym over 6monyth ago and have been curiously looking at people in the gym sweating away and realising how much more thay sweat then me. After I nearly passed out on the way home last month I started taking no changes with the heat and started drinking a sports drink when I felt fatigued speically when I was out. So when I noticed the extra sweat which seemed more normal for the heat I did wonder if there was a link between maybe something in the drink helping my body work better. I took a brack from the jym over xmas after I nearly passed out 3 days in a row after coming home from the gym, 3 day I calapsed on the door step. Went back on monday this week and felt better so maybe sleeping is helping as well but I noticed I also was sweating heap more than normal at the jym I was needing to wipe my head head and behind my neck. So again I'm curious about if the sports drink helping me. My blood test showed electolytes were ok but I'd already been drinking sprots drink for over a week.

Over the last fue years I started eating banana's regularly threw out busy days like shopping to keep the fatigue at bay but just recently a banana was not enough of a boost to my system and turned to sports drink. Both have patassium. Patassium is needed to keep your body hydrated. I've had many symptoms of diabete's but dont have diabetes and adrenal dysfuction can cause sodium and patassium to be effected there fore effecting hydration ect so i dont know if i should be asking for test to be sure my adrenal glad is working properly. My fatigue is so sudden and its make little sence to me and I'm really concerned about how far i can push my body. I dont want to pass out in public, I dont want to wait till I end up hospital before thay find there might be something els going on.

I wonder if I've basicly been treating my self for any deficancys that have been happening with me. I try to eat the right food and not over eat ect, and my diet has been more and more restictive over the last fue years I'm finding I cant avoide eating certain foods with out getting fatiuge. I have to eat regular meals. I cant keep trying to find way to make my body function. i want to loose weight I want to jog on the tredmill, I want to get better.

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Relaxation techniques practiced regularly combat this. By keeping adrenalin levels low through the regular relaxation techniques, when something comes along to raise the adrenalin level it doesn't go so high. The techniques also give us skills to use in the moment when we begin to feel stressed, from focusing on breathing to grounding ourselves to things like walking meditation.
This is a great area to explore.

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thank you.....I feel like I am controling my anxiety on the days I feel the worst..I dont know what els to do. It like my body need the adreniline from panic attack to function.

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Ooh....thanks for this info!!

My old Doctor (medical) tried to tell me that adrenal fatigue didn't exist. He said there is no evidence that it is it's own disorder and that people often get it confused with fibromyalgia. He said that if there is any evidence of adrenal fatigue that it would be categorized as Addison's Disease.

I thought he was NUTZ and that's how he became my old Doctor.

I believe very much in Adrenal Fatigue as I feel I have it as a chronic condition. I think with all my years of trauma that my hormones and glands that secrete them have changed in response to the chronic trauma...and eventually you can't unring a bell and these glands become altered. I don't know if that makes sense or not...but that's the way I see it.

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Originally Posted by Elysium

Ooh....thanks for this info!!

My old Doctor (medical) tried to tell me that adrenal fatigue didn't exist. He said there is no evidence that it is it's own disorder and that people often get it confused with fibromyalgia. He said that if there is any evidence of adrenal fatigue that it would be categorized as Addison's Disease.

I thought he was NUTZ and that's how he became my old Doctor.

I believe very much in Adrenal Fatigue as I feel I have it as a chronic condition. I think with all my years of trauma that my hormones and glands that secrete them have changed in response to the chronic trauma...and eventually you can't unring a bell and these glands become altered. I don't know if that makes sense or not...but that's the way I see it.

I fully understand what your saying....I have no problem with acept the diagnoises of adrenal fatigue ect, but I personaly hope my dr rules everything out first liek addison's.

I can fully understand the diagnoise if you over use some thing like you kidney's ect thay may become sick in some way no matter if it serious ect. I hope I can get better I dont want to feel bad for the rest of my life.