Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Exactly what happens when a persons adrenals crash? people have posted about this happening to them. can one avoid this from happening, and how? kind of dumb questions I know:( thank you , sherie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Keep pills or cream on you at all times in case you run into unexpected stress, so that you can take extra right away. If you run out of HC in your body, you get nauseous and this will progress to actually throwing up if you don't take any HC; you will get really shaky, and extremely nervous/anxious and won't be able to think straight. If you're brilliant like my DH, you'll get in the car and drive home in this condition LOL! Barb " sweetwulfie " wrote: > > Exactly what happens when a persons adrenals crash? people have > posted about this happening to them. can one avoid this from > happening, and how? kind of dumb questions I know:( > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Hi Sherie, Not a dumb question. I think it is different for everyone. As says, everyone is pre-disposed to the amount of stress they can handle. So I would suspect a crash would be different for everyone too. For " me " , I was a competitive athelte so it started with low heart rates in my workout. I coudln't get my heart rate up for anything. Then I had wicked insomnia, being tired from not sleeping, but too WIRED to sleep ever. For a while I couldn't work or even think. I sat on the sofa and watched TV just to chill. I tried reading and doing nothing for weeks (without doing anything nutritionally or with supplements to address the adrenals) and that didn't work. Loud noises, music, bothered me a lot. My body shook a lot. I felt like i was on 10 pots of coffee and 3 bottles of Excederine all the time. (I don't do coffee or excederine.) My skin was sallow and gray. My eyes sunken. I aged really quickly, within a year i looked 10 years older. I went from having a little gray hair to big chunks of gray hair. All my sex hormones dropped too. Estrogen, Testosterone, DHEA, tanked. This was evident as my muscle tone went to nothing. (even tho I had been athletic) I couldn't think. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't make commitments to go out with friends because i wasn't sure if I'd have a melt down (be too tired or overstimulated). And I'm a social person, generally. Most scarry of all, I couldn't sleep, at all. For months i lived on 1-3 hours of sleep/night, even with " sleep aids " . It was hell. I'm sure there are other types of symptoms out there. But that was what my crash was like. And symbolically, I had a bike crash (concussion/broken ribs) that was the straw that broke the camels back in my adrenal crsh. although I was headed for the adrenal crash before the accident, (low heart rate and starting of insomnia), the bike crash sent me into full blow adrenal crash and i just tumbled downhill form there, metaphorically speaking. > > Exactly what happens when a persons adrenals crash? people have > posted about this happening to them. can one avoid this from > happening, and how? kind of dumb questions I know:( > > thank you , sherie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Thanks for posting this, . My husband has had his hopes for competitive x-c skiing dashed year after year, and we've only now realized that he goes through a metabolic crash every winter. (We figured it out by taking his temp.) He has a lot of what you described: can't get his heart rate up, feeling brain-dead even when he has physical energy, can't get to sleep, entering a race and coming in " dead last " even though he's a better skier than almost all of the people ahead of him. He's been banging his head on a wall, and he really appreciated reading your experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Hi , Oh, I could go on and on about adrenal fatigue and being a competitive athlete. For one thing, I do not believe we're designed as humans to be competitive athletes past a certain age (like late 20s early 30s). I'm 39. however, if you enjoy being a competitve athlete, it's probalby MUCH more stressful to not partake in a passion than to partake in it wisely. I hope to go back to bike racing. I hope to be in tune with my body enough to know exactly how much supplmentation i need to give it so i can race w/o overworking the adrenals. Adrenal fatigue people tend to be " addicted " to stress or adrenaline (and racing). When I was going through my mid-phase of the crash or trying to come out of it, any exercise at all, would send me into being wired. It was like a crack high. (I've never done crack, but I guess this is what it'd feel like.) I'd get soooooo high after a ride, at first I'd twitter around the house like a humming bird, doing all sorts of chores, being overly-happy. It was so annoying even to me. I swear I don't know how my husband put up with that " high " person. Then later, i'd shake and couldn't come down from the " high " . Forget sleeping that night! Before the adrenal crash, when i was racing, I'd get that high after races and couldn't come down. While in adrenal crash, simple exercise did it to me. One thing to note that may help your husband... before I found my ND who put me on isocort and iodine, i had already read 's book and for 2 months started the vitmain supplements to the exact dosage of his recommendation (but not the herbs). I bought them separately and took them separatly rather than trying to find a multi which was impossible. THAT ALONE GOT ME BACK ON THE BIKE WITHOUT TOO MUCH OF A FREAK SHOW AT NIGHT. I had to of course, and still have to, keep my heart rate w/in zone 2. i won't allow myself to push past that for a long time until i can sleep on my own (w/o klonopin). I'm now on isocort and iodine and feel a much more stable energy throughout my day. no highs or lows. no shakes...still need the klonopin (.5 mg) but i think and hope as adrenals get better that i won't need it. I remember trying to race my bike after my accident. I was in a race that would have been a " shoe-in " for me. I'm a decent climber and when i was climbing, the girl next to me was working so very hard, looking like she was in zone 4, and I couldn't even work hard enough to get out of zone 1! I knew then something was very wrong. In terms of your husband and racing again, I think its something that will be lifelong in terms of treating and caring for if he's to stay competitive. It may be a while before he can race again. Everybody needs different healing time tables. But I don't believe all is lost in his passion! Hope this helps! Best, > > Thanks for posting this, . My husband has had his hopes for > competitive x-c skiing dashed year after year, and we've only now > realized that he goes through a metabolic crash every winter. (We > figured it out by taking his temp.) > > He has a lot of what you described: can't get his heart rate up, > feeling brain-dead even when he has physical energy, can't get to > sleep, entering a race and coming in " dead last " even though he's a > better skier than almost all of the people ahead of him. > > He's been banging his head on a wall, and he really appreciated > reading your experience. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Hi Rhonda, Ya, Tylonol wired me to even tho it is benydryl with aspirin. I used to take Benydryl for a long time before my adrenal crash. but it doesn't work now. Most sleep aids did not work for me (ambien, rozarem etc). Right now I take .5mg of klonopin to sleep while I pursue fixing my adrenals with an ND. I hope to ween off of it. Sol, on this list, had mentioned possibly a LOWER dose of melatonin rather than the usual 1-3 mg dose could help. I'm intrigued by that and may give it a whirl when i feel like my adrenals are a bit more stable. hope this helps, julie > > > > Exactly what happens when a persons adrenals crash? people have > > posted about this happening to them. can one avoid this from > > happening, and how? kind of dumb questions I know:( > > > > thank you , sherie > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Tylenol (basic tylenol) is acetominophen, I've never seen one with either benedryl or aspirin in it? Tylenol pm is acetominphen with diphenhydramine (benedryl) but I don't see any aspirin in it either? sol wild.dingo wrote: > Hi Rhonda, > Ya, Tylonol wired me to even tho it is benydryl with aspirin. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 What did you do to finally get to sleep? I am going through the sleep thing? I would appreciat any suggestions. I can't keep this schedule up. I know if I take Tylenol p.m. I will probably get wired from it. Re: adrenal crash Hi Sherie, Not a dumb question. I think it is different for everyone. As says, everyone is pre-disposed to the amount of stress they can handle. So I would suspect a crash would be different for everyone too. For " me " , I was a competitive athelte so it started with low heart rates in my workout. I coudln't get my heart rate up for anything. Then I had wicked insomnia, being tired from not sleeping, but too WIRED to sleep ever. For a while I couldn't work or even think. I sat on the sofa and watched TV just to chill. I tried reading and doing nothing for weeks (without doing anything nutritionally or with supplements to address the adrenals) and that didn't work. Loud noises, music, bothered me a lot. My body shook a lot. I felt like i was on 10 pots of coffee and 3 bottles of Excederine all the time. (I don't do coffee or excederine.) My skin was sallow and gray. My eyes sunken. I aged really quickly, within a year i looked 10 years older. I went from having a little gray hair to big chunks of gray hair. All my sex hormones dropped too. Estrogen, Testosterone, DHEA, tanked. This was evident as my muscle tone went to nothing. (even tho I had been athletic) I couldn't think. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't make commitments to go out with friends because i wasn't sure if I'd have a melt down (be too tired or overstimulated). And I'm a social person, generally. Most scarry of all, I couldn't sleep, at all. For months i lived on 1-3 hours of sleep/night, even with " sleep aids " . It was hell. I'm sure there are other types of symptoms out there. But that was what my crash was like. And symbolically, I had a bike crash (concussion/broken ribs) that was the straw that broke the camels back in my adrenal crsh. although I was headed for the adrenal crash before the accident, (low heart rate and starting of insomnia), the bike crash sent me into full blow adrenal crash and i just tumbled downhill form there, metaphorically speaking. > > Exactly what happens when a persons adrenals crash? people have > posted about this happening to them. can one avoid this from > happening, and how? kind of dumb questions I know:( > > thank you , sherie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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