Re: Adrenal Obsessed... a few more A-Ha!s

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LOL!

Before i started " really " understanding all of this, and i wasn't

sleeping--even on every type of sleeping pill--(classic adrenal shut

down)--I WISHED someone would drop an anvil or piano on my head. I'm

a happy person. but 7 days of no sleep--well--that can do something

to your psychology. The Heath Ledger thing really puts a knot in my

stomach when i think of how many times i mixed in stuff just to sleep

(nyquil mixed with ativan or benydryl mixed with ambien...) sick

huh? Poor guy was probably suffering something very similar to burn

out.

but when you're desperate, you'll do anything to sleep ... i'm

sleeping better now--not great, i still need w/a wee bit of

klonpin .5 mg-- but i think because of all the vitamins (b, c and

mag). i think even tho my cortisol today is low, i'm afraid it was

probably off the charts low months ago. i notice too if i do too much

during a day or if i drink a drink with " electrolytes " (like the

other day i drank electrolyte water), it will keep m up all night.

I'm assuming because the electrolyte water has way too much potassium

for me! (stupid me) I can't wait to get started on isocort and meet

with the ND on wed. and if i have to, i'll order cortef over seas...

(tired of being wired--hey, it ain't what it's cracked up to

be!)

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> >> Check this one out, too:

> >> http://www.umanitoba.ca/dnalab/med/adrp3.htm

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> >> Sam

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> >> > I was surfing around to find a less expensive place to buy

> > Jeffries

> >> > book (I only have one of his studies) and I came across 2

pages on

> >> > this site:

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> >> > http://www.usdoctor.com/cortisol.htm

> >> > http://www.usdoctor.com/insomnia.htm

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> >> > the aha! for me was:

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> >> > 1. " SYMPTOMS: The degree of insomnia varies from mild:

awakening

> > and

> >> > falls back to sleep; moderate, cannot fall asleep or cannot

fall

> > back

> >> > to sleep; to severe, cannot sleep without over-the-counter to

> >> > prescription medications. The worse of the worse individuals

> > cannot

> >> > sleep even with prescription medications. " (I WAS THIS LAST

ONE)

> >> >

> >> > 2. Prozac™ and anti-depressants, Ambien™ and other sleeping

> > agents

> >> > fail to address the underlying physiology of too much

epinephrine

> > and

> >> > too little cortisol, DHEA, Calciferol, magnesium, zinc and

> >> > gabapentin. Small doses of Ativen™, Xanax™ or Klonipin™ many

be

> >> > incorporated acutely, because the individuals are 'panicked'

> >> > not 'depressed.' (Ambien and regular sleep aids didn't touch

me

> > but

> >> > i had done ativan and liked it last year except that i

eventually

> >> > went up in dose over time and this year, i'm hanging low on

teeny

> >> > weeny klonopin. probably because my vitamins are now up.)

> >> >

> >> > 3. The adrenal cortex releases CORTISOL (prescription CORTEF™)

in

> >> > response to the pituitary hormone ACTH's signal. The problem is

> > that

> >> > ACTH can only be turned down by Cortisol yet it triggers

increased

> >> > release of adrenaline. The absence of the Vitamin B's and C's

> > that

> >> > are necessary for the adrenal cortex to manufacture Cortisol

from

> >> > being produced, aggravate and accelerate the problem of

adrenaline

> >> > (epinephrine) overload. The cycle continues until intervention

> >> > breaks the cycle. That break can be a 3-month hiatus

(vacation or

> >> > mental breakdown) or the modified Jeffries protocol that we

> >> > incorporate in our office. (PROBABLY WHY CORTEF DIDN'T DO MUCH

> > FOR ME

> >> > THE FIRST TIME. I WAS NEVER ON ANY RIGHT DOSES OF B'S AND

C'S...)

> >> >

> >> > 4. This page talks about d3 in relation to sleep:

> >> > http://www.usdoctor.com/insomnia.htm mine is very low...

> >> >

> >> > anyway, don't know about this web site or doctor on it, but was

> > able

> >> > to identify my insomnia with this very quickly... i just don't

get

> >> > why docs don't think like this. I told my doctor, i'm not

tired.

> > I'm

> >> > wired and can't sleep. and she tells me i'm hypothroid and

treats

> > me

> >> > for fatigue. to bad there isn't a course in listening to

patients

> >> > symptoms 101 for med students...

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