Less endurance for exercise, any exertion after starting HC

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..... I wondered the same thing when I first started on HC. I

was in an advanced stage of AF. Dirt low cortisol and DHEAS.

Strenuous workouts contributed to my AF. This and the wrong diet. Not

a bad diet, but not one that supported the adrenals. Prior to halting

excessive exercise I was pushing to exhaustion at Gold's gym and cross

training 5-6 days a week. When I started to work with the adrenals and

thyroid I couldn't do much more than walk with mild Reformer Pilates.

And I could only do these slowly. I had little for walking up a hill.

After one solid year of gut healing, BHRT, eating gluten free,

eliminating dairy, bringing up ferritin levels, B 12 levels, adding HC,

armour and T3, etc., I have just started weight training again. I'm no

dynamo, but I'm getting better. I find that with awareness I am able

to compensate with rest and good sleep with no detriment to my

adrenals. Right now my maintenance dose of HC is 20 mg. I do think

that my nightly injections of GH contribute significantly in my fast

muscle recovery. I won't weight train back to back anymore, but will

train for an hour and then walk 5 miles later in the day. No problem at

all. But occasionally there is a day or two back to back that I might

be tried. I don't make myself workout when I am tried. That kind of

thinking is what exacerbated the whole thing in the first place. So I

work with myself and try not to make anything worse.

AG

> Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:16 pm (PST)

> I understand that strenuous exercise is not advisable when trying to

> heal the adrenals, so I haven't been to the gym in weeks. I'm really

> missing it and I can almost see the muscle dissolving off of my body.

> I've actually lost several pounds since beginning Isocort over two

> months ago, but I'm afraid that most has been muscle as the belly fat

> has not decreased proportionally.

>

> My question is about endurance - I am finding that it is even more

> difficult, for example, to complete a longish walk with my dog. Less

> than three months ago I was walking every day and working out three

> days/week for around an hour with virtually no rest in between

> exercises. Granted I usually felt like hell the next day, but I felt

> pretty good while I was there and was able to get through most

> workouts. Do I understand correctly that what was probably happening

> is

> that I was living off of adrenaline b/c my adrenals were no longer

> able

> to keep up with enough cortisol? At some point does the endurance come

> back, or not as long as we're on the HC? I am really struggling to

> understand this.

>

>

>

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