Re: (unknown)

October 16, 2007

I also had great trouble just taking a shower and

getting ready for work before I began HC. That's when

I knew something was really wrong and I went and had

adrenal testing. I also thought I had AIDS too!! What

a mess this has caused you. Even when I felt well, I

could never function on 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

Although you weren't doing this for a long exteneded

time were you?

--- rock_sexton wrote:

>

> Hey everyone. This is my first post over here since

> everyone migrated

> over from Stopthethyroidmadness. At any rate, I

> just got done reading

> an interesting website about adrenal fatigue and

> after having read it, I

> really need my adrenals tested badly. At one point

> in the write-up it

> said, " If you've ever made the statement 'after___I

> was never the same'

> then you are a suspect for adrenal issues. Let me

> know if after having

> read this, you agree or disagree......and big thanks

> to whomever takes

> the time to read this.

>

> Quick background, I'm a 28 year old male, 185lbs.

> Up until the age of

> 20, I had always lived with a little bit of

> depression/anxiety. Nothing

> debilitating, but just enough to remind me that I

> wasn't at ease with

> the way my life was going. During my sophomore year

> in college, I came

> down with mono (Epstein Barr). It took me about 4

> or 5 months to

> recover. I have to admit, I probably didn't take

> the rest as serious as

> I should've, which wasn't good considering I was

> taking 5 classes and

> was a the pledge class of a fraternity not to

> mention trying to have a

> social life. I noticed after having mono that I

> didn't quite have the

> energy levels I used to and I also developed a

> sweating problem. I

> would literally sweat when I was doing nothing or

> even when it was cold.

>

> After graduating college in 2002, I didn't know what

> to do with my life

> so I got into the restaurant biz and began waiting

> tables. For thos

> unfamiliar with the line of work, it's extremely

> taxing. You're on your

> feet all day long, high amounts of stress because

> you're looking after

> 10 or 20 people at anyone time and trying to

> maintain control when the

> reality of it is alot of things are out of your

> control. Stimulants are

> commonplace for servers, I never dabbled in coffee

> or drugs or anything

> like that, but I will attest my caffeine consumption

> from soda increased

> alot while working in my first restaurant. Once

> again, I noticed my

> energy levels were severely lacking. At one point I

> even gave up

> working out, which was odd for me having always been

> a 4 to 5 days at

> the gym kind of guy.

>

> That particular restaurant decided to promote me to

> a Developer, which

> meant I was to fly around the country opening up new

> restaurants and

> training their front of house staff with usually 6

> others and we're

> talking about anywhere between 60 to 120 people

> being trained. Usually

> the trips lasted 3 or 4 weeks, 13 hour days. After

> working all those

> hours, since we were in new cities we'd almost

> always go out at night

> for drinks and to decompress, yet we'd have to be

> right back up at 7am

> to do it all over again. It was during these trips

> that I noticed my

> stimulants habits formed. All of the sudden I was

> drinking lots of

> Starbucks and various energy drinks to keep going.

> I literally had to

> have them or I wasn't going to make it through the

> day. I did a West

> Coast swing, where I started in the City of Industry

> near Los Angeles

> and then all the way up into Oregon and then

> Seattle, Washington. The

> timeframe was about 4 months. When I got to

> Seattle, I noticed around

> the 4th day that I wasn't feeling very good. It

> started as a low-grade

> fever then eventually worked it's way up to a full

> blown fever, body

> aches, and a massive infection in my gumline to the

> point where my gums

> were bleeding/inflamed and I could barely eat.

> Unfortunately I made the

> mistake of trying to tough it out because we didn't

> get paid unless we

> worked our hours.

>

> I also made the mistake of going out one of the

> nights with the training

> crew. I was feeling leftout because I had been

> feeling so crappy and

> staying in the hotel when we weren't working. Of

> course we had drinks

> that night, I kind of hoped the " whiskey sweats "

> might help, it was very

> naive of me. Well that night put me over the top.

> I literally got 3

> hours of sleep and had to be ready to rock for

> another day of training

> at 7am. By midday I was ready to topple over. I

> told the head trainer

> I had to go check myself into the hospital. The

> doctor their didn't

> seem too concerned. He just prescribed me some

> Penicillin 500V tablets

> for my infection and told me I needed to rest up. I

> took the next two

> days of work and rested up, but I had to get back to

> work to make money.

> The prescription was helping, just slowly, although

> my fever had gone

> away. I flew back home about a week later and

> all-in-all it took about

> 3 weeks total to recover......however, I swear after

> that trip I haven't

> been the same.

>

> About a month or two later, started noticing that I

> felt bloated all the

> darned time, not to mention burping alot. My nose

> constantly felt

> congested. I noticed that if I was ever out late,

> the very next day I

> would sickly. This was a stark contrast from how I

> used to be. I

> switched to a new restaurant where I could make more

> money working less

> days because I was going to attempt to take the

> LSAT's in order to get

> into law school. Didn't work out quite like I had

> planned as the

> restaurant was even more hectic. It was around this

> time that I started

> noticing blood in my stool. I went to the doc and

> he informed me I had

> an internal hemorrhoid. My fatigue levels started

> hitting all-time

> highs. I would literally be driving and nearly

> passing out on the road.

>

> Unforunately for me life-events were downward

> spiraling at a ridiculous

> rate. I was taxed from waiting tables 50 hours a

> week, while also

> taking classes for my LSAT's. I was torn and

> juggling mixed emotions

> over two girls. An error in judgement one night got

> me a DUI. My

> family life was falling apart as my father's

> gambling addiction and

> introverted nature were taking over. I was stressed

> out over the

> expectations my family all had of me being this top

> flight lawyer. I

> was living paycheck to paycheck, which only got

> worse when I left the

> restaurant industry to take a stab at working for a

> retail call center

> for a mortgage company (think glorified

> telemarketing sweatshop). My

> creditors were calling me nonstop as I fell behind

> on bills, I mean

> we're talking 25+ calls a day. They were literally

> the only ones

> calling me because at this stage I was hiding myself

> from people. I

> barely had enough energy to get through the day and

> when I got home from

> work, I just hid myself in my room, often times

> scouring the net for

> answers to what I was going through.

>

> I noticed many nights where I started feeling shaky.

> I was constantly

> craving sweets after meals. I noticed that when I

> got up from sitting

> down I'd often times feel a brief moment of

> lightheadedness, sometimes

> followed by this strange pinching/aching sensation

> in my upperback near

> my kidneys. I awoke one Sunday morning feeling kind

> of nauseas and it

> persisted for nearly 3 months straight. I was

> feeling malaised all the

>

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October 16, 2007

I have a good friend with AIDS, for 10 years now, and he is healthier and

has more energy than me! For awhile there, we were taking bets on who would

kick the bucket first. Yeah, the bruising thing can really throw a person

off. I looked like a severely battered wife for years with all my bruises.

Cheri

Re: (unknown)

I also had great trouble just taking a shower and

getting ready for work before I began HC. That's when

I knew something was really wrong and I went and had

adrenal testing. I also thought I had AIDS too!! What

a mess this has caused you. Even when I felt well, I

could never function on 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

Although you weren't doing this for a long exteneded

time were you?

---

October 16, 2007

hi there, sorry you feel so yuck. your genral fatigue sounds like

adrenals to me- get a home saliva test to check. also your gastro

symptoms sound alot like mine, drove me crazy for three years and

wasnot attributed to my hyperthyroid. an endo finally ordered a gastic

delay emptying test- usually an internist does this i believe- and lo

and behold, my stomach nerves are partially paralyzed...resulting in

extreme fatigue from malnutrion and metabolic starvation, nausea from

food just sitting around fermenting, hair thining from lack of protein

absorption and easily bruised poorly healing skin. i spent alot of

time insisting it was just my adrenals and thyroid but i learned

theres such a thing as multiple disorders mimicking and compounding

one another. hope this helps and good luck!

October 16, 2007

Adrenal issues mess up your digestive system and it is a common symptom of

adrenal disease to have malnutrition and a hard time metabolizing protein

(why enzymes are so important) and it also puts a person at higher risk of

parasites.

How did you address your gastro issues once you knew you have the nerve

damage? I am curious about what helped you since so many of us have

digestive issues. I have the poor healing skin and hair loss too.

Thanks,