adrenal exhaustion-narcolepsy

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Hello group,

I have a very challenging case. This woman is 34 with severe exhaustion X 3 years. The MD's have done a test for addison's and she doesn't have it(Also she has had many test otherwise to locate the problem). However, when she taken prednisone, she feels like her teenage self again, 8 hours of sleep and energy all day.. She has done this twice. Once for an allergic reaction and then did a 'retry' challenge and same results.

She has a workaholic history and a high stress childhood. She will do very distructive things like get a breath of energy and work the entire day at shoveling dirt all over her garden. I have had a lenghty discussion concerning activity reality. Her symptoms now are "they say I am allergic to everything" through allergy testing with the MDs. She really rarely has a reaction to anything as she is so exhausted now. All she can do is sleep, often 18 hours a day, sometimes she is awake about 3 hours on the weekends when her husband is home with the 2 kids. One child is still home during the day at age 4. All this severe fatigue did start after childbirth.but careful histories shows it was coming on before.

I have finally forced her to have a natural foods diet (fruits, veggies, beans, legumes, rice and broiled protien) with no refined foods, soda, juices or spice mixes. This has been for a month now. Of course the progress is very slow-she doesn't see a difference. I am giving her adrenal glandular TID. I have given her homeopathic adrenalinum and nothing.

I am about to start 1 drop of UNDA if we can decide what might be the best choices.

Yesterday I gave her Nux M which is well indicated because she finally told me she has a lifelong history of constipation with no urging. That she has to manually extract her stool often and then during her periods she has diarrhea. One would think I could have gotten this information before but it is amazing what patients forget, don't think it matters, or are too embarassed to tell you.

Your thoughts are most welsome here.

Whittaker, RN, ND