Fighting adrenal fatigue…

Ok… Through Dr James L Bean and his nurse I’ve plugged into the following products from Energetix:  #1 Fields Of Flowers and #2 Rescue Calm.  You have to take them both!  Each week gets better.

The 2-4 wake-ups don’t come and i don’t have to void.  I use Trader Joe’s melatonin tablets to go to sleep and when/if I do wake up (b/c i have children) I have 3 of them by my bed side.  When I use them i put them under my tongue (sublingual) and then go back to sleep.  I feel my adrenals are getting ‘beat down’ back into normal health!

I’ve lost another 15 lbs since my last posting!

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I’m exercising and i’ve lost 20 lbs

I conducted a diabetes test back in late April/early May.  I was nervous b/c at 38 I didn’t want to know what was going to kill me.  I’d rather be surprised at this age!  Test came back negative and I got to enjoy a carb-filled lunch.   After the results I talked to my DRs nurse and she asked what I ate and I said I don’t eat carbs.  Her response was you are eating  too much and yes that WAS true.  After that moment i made an effort to lose weight.  In april 2008 i was a hefty 250 lbs and I now weigh about 231 lbs.  That’s a 20 pound weight loss that includes more muscle, better physique and definitely better fitting clothes.  I’m a 36″ waist instead of the 38″ waist and I know i’m further from diabetes than i was.

I say push away, get hungry, literally, and eat less.  Even Keith Richards mentioned that one of the reasons he felt he was able to live as long as he has was because he didn’t eat too much.  I feel like over-eating is making your body work too hard, taking years off the digestive systems’ value.  Then again i also see a functional medicine doctor.   www.functionalmedicine.org

Fight getting old!

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So here’s what’s working for me if you had adrenal fatigue

good morning.  I have not posted in a long time but i believe i’m getting better.  Work has been crazy…

You have to heal the adrenal fatigue.  I had the symptoms but no longer.  No sugar/caffeine cravings, I sleep through the night (not waking up between 2-4).  With my hypothyroidism it was really bad.  Fatigue, mental dullness (love that term).  You basically become stupid and physically drained.  You feel cold, easily catch colds/can’t get rid of them and your bones can start to break.  Oh the joys of getting old.

I had trouble with what my DR’s nurse calls a syndrome.  Essentially every night around 10 pm my body starts powering up for the evening’s sleep instead of calming down.  We believe it is epinephrine.  An effect from cortisol production.

I take a Nervoheel and a Neurexan 3Xs per day.  It’s wat the directions said to do.  For quite some time I did not and then I decided to follow the directions.  Morning, afternoon, and evening I take 2 little sublingual pills - crunch them a little and let them dissolve.  In the evening I use a product called EndoPlus which contains 5HTP.  You don’t need much.  It comes with a spray, also sublingual, and I let it work.  After that I like these little Trader Joe Melatonin tables.  They are 500 mg and work fast and I’m out.  Around 9 pm i’ll also eat a tablespoon of organic peanut butter.  Sometimes I awake in the am because I’m hungry so this helps.

A bad night for me before this can be described as my brain cycling!  I’m do this to myself I know but I start thinking about my day, a song, some problem at work, whatever.  Next thing I know I can feel myself wide awake and the cortisol is winning the evening.  What i mentioned above works for me and the products are a small amount to pay for a good night’s sleep.  Is it deep sleep?  Maybe but I don’t really know what that is – normal sleep.  It is uneventful sleep.

Hypothyroidism > sleep apnea, bone loss, respitory problems > diabetes?? « “What a drag it is getting old” Weblog

Hypothyroidism > sleep apnea, bone loss, respitory problems > diabetes?? « “What a drag it is getting old” Weblog

Hypothyroidism > sleep apnea, bone loss, respitory problems > diabetes??

My mother had hypothyroidism and had her thyroid removed in her 50s I believe.  She takes synthroid.  This turned out for me to be a huge contributing factor to my bad health.  If you’ve never had hypothyroidism and most people don’t it is an awful thing.  For years in my 30s I would get home from work tired and would decompress and rest on my bed.  I’d then have to get up and help with homework or life maintenance around our house… only to not sleep well.

As far back as my mid-20s I wasn’t sleeping well.  When your body falls apart it can take a long time to get worse which it did.  My father got diagnosed for sleep apnea and did a sleep study.  It helped him so I tried a sleep test as well.  In 2003 I got diagnosed, to me it was mis-diagnosed, with sleep apnea.  I got the breathing machine (cpap) and for about a year it helped some but I continued to wake up, have night sweats, irregular bowel movements and ‘mental dullness’.  The mental dullness got worse as I got older.  And who wouldn’t like to have a BM every day, regularly?

I love my mother and father but everyone has something they are born into or with.  I am not just speaking negatively either.  Some of these things are good and some are bad.  It’s just how it works.  I was born in the USA so even with some biological shortcomings I consider myself very lucky.

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I’m a programmer and couldn’t resist starting off with this.

I copied it from my friend Bob McWhirter – Big Bob b/c he’s so tall.  Sweet and intelligent guy.  Here’s his blog http://www.fnokd.com/

Happy Birthday to my brother John (Aug 3)!

He is 43 yrs young.