Nick's addison's article got me thinking

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The article is interesting; thanks for sharing it.

It got me thinking: a few years ago I was hospitalized for an out-patient

procedure which could have been done with local anesthesia but the

anesthesiologist convinced me to do it with general anesthesia.

I was unable to wake up after the procedure. I was in an utterly deep sleep; I

heard the nurses talking among themselves that I seem to have fallen into a

coma. It took them a few hours and if I wasn't fighting to crawl out of that

deeeeeep sleep I may have remained in it. The nurses sat me up, while I was

sleeping, they moved me, they tried anything and everything to get me to wake

up, but I was so thoroughly exhausted and drained and though I tried soooo hard

to open my eyes, I wasn't able to. Until much later.

I am beginning to think my adrenals may have tanked out due to the general

anesthesia or the procedure itself. I tend to think the anesthesia played a

number on my adrenals.

I finally hobbled out of that place, came home, fell into bed, and slept

eighteen hours straight. From then on it's been an uphill battle to regain

stamina and energy. for a number of months I had no muscle tone in my arms,

tongue, legs, etc. They called it 'fibroyalgia'.

I now think it was adrenal fatigue.

Anyhow, the article about the dog helping his owner avoid falling into a coma

reminded me of my personal story about coma/adrenals.