Stress dosing AFTER an unexpected (sensory) stressor? - calming effects of music, art - direct effect in ACTH/Pit?

[Guest guest]

How much should one stress-dose *after* a stressor? I'm one of

those people who is (and has *always* been) hyper-responsive to

plenty of unexpected things (sudden sounds, and 'inferred emotions'

of other people 'read' from sound) especially if they are sudden,

loud, sharp, " angfy " (subject to my own interpretation of what angry

constitutes), " impatient " (my mother contantly sighing when she gets

home from the grocery store when I have NO idea what is bothering her

- if anything), or high-frequency (table saws drive me NUTS - loud,

high frequency, and completely unpredictable in their frequency

pattern). This seems to incorporate some of the same things seen in

PTSD, and also possibly indicating a congenitally impaired HPA axis

somehow (or long-standing low-level AF). I was 10 weeks premature,

so.. Both hyper- and hypo-cortisolism are correlated with

prematurity, and the fetal HPA isn't fully functional until the third

trimester, and who knows what goes on with inter-uterine programming

(epigeneics or hormone/neurotransmitter/pollutatant exposure) after

that.

This might explains why I like music and singing so my - with my

auditory eidetic memory (both a blessing AND a curse!) I can remember

and predict music I know well down to the sub-second (and yet always

seem to manage to hear something new). I'm wondering if singing

might also have some direct affect on the pituitary from the

hypothalamus and/or limbic system. Although I find it calming, it

does *not* reduce my response to outside stressors - my mother

walking in the door will make me jump 2 inches. This reduced greatly

with cortisol dosing - and I think will disappear once I find out

what my optimal dose should be when I take the saliva test.

Anyway, the egg custard I was heating in the microwave just

exploded - they do this sometimes , which causes the cup to jump

about an inch and then come crashing down on the glass plate of the

microwave. Same acute over-reaction, essentially a startle reaction

on steroids (or.. umm.. NOT on steroids . I stress dosed 1 pill

IC, although I wonder what it would actually do - I assume that

cortisol has been used up restoring homeostasis to the brain/pit, and

needs to be replaced. This will no doubt get some worse as I

continue to wean-down from the cortisol, although perhaps reducing

the Armour at the same time will dampen metabolism enough that I

simply don't respond the same way.

Anyone else have this situation of needing to stress-dose AFTER

something?

Jim