Help - Severe ACE Reaction

March 30, 2008

I had a severe reaction from taking ACE last night - around 9:30 lungs

started having really bad bronchospasms, then I crashed and virtually

passed out for about an hour. When I woke up I was completely trashed

and ever since then I've had the totally wiped out feeling like when

your adrenal function is gone - literally felt like I was going check

out this morning! It's noon and I just dragged myself out of bed about

20 minutes ago - not that I wanted to. After this I'm going right

back. I feel like I could sleep for a few days straight at least, just

can't shake this sleepy tiredness. yesterday before all this I was

relatively " normal. "

I was on 6 drops of Adrenal Aide 3x a day for about 2 weeks. To that I

was adding a couple of drops of sub-adrene in between the first two

doses. I was having some neuro symptoms from it, but they were

manageable (I thought). I had the bronchospasms before from Isocort,

but I thought it was from the echinacea or maybe the fillers. I had

some spasms a few days ago from the drops, but they were minor and

passed pretty quickly and didn't come back until last night.

I think my immune system got kicked into overdrive from the ACE drops.

Either that, or is it possible for ACE to turn off your adrenals if

you are really sensitive? That's what it feels like: no adrenal

function. BP is 98/62 though, and 112/64 on standing, and temp was in

the 97s, so right now I'm guessing it's mostly immune.

What should I do? Just try to ride it out and see if it subsides? I

don't want to take anymore of the ACE, but is it okay to go from 18-20

drops a day down to zero? Not sure what to do, this damn " alternative

medicine " has totally screwed me again.

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