Need Advice on Adrenal Issues

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Need your help on adrenal issues. 2 years ago cortisol was

significantly below normal over 24 hours, but just barely reached up

to just below the lower boundery of the normal curve in early

evening. This year the same test shows cortisol below normal all

day, but then begins to rise about dinner time and spikes extremely

high overnight, causing me to feel anxiety/butterflies when I wake

up.

So apparently my adrenals can work, just at the wrong times and they

go way overboard when they do. After that they are exhausted and

sink way low until the next evening.

How to treat that? How to get the adrenals back in sync? Actually,

lately the morning anxiety is gone, so I bet a retest which I can't

afford would show my cortisol is again very low all day and night.

That's what it feels like. Nothing Rx or supplements helps my

depression, and I get fatigued very easy.

Licorice didn't agree with me. It felt like I was intolerant of it,

similar to a food intolerance. I tried Isocort on 2 different

afternoons just to sample it and I was surprised how tired, sleepy

and depressed I got. Was it just one pill of Isocort that did that?

My doc said to put over the counter hydrocortisone gel on my buttock

boils to reduce the swelling until our next appointment where he

will take a closer look at them. He said the hyrocortisone gel will

not absorb in the system. I think he was wrong. I got kind of

nervousy with a fast heartbeat and didn't know what was going on,

until I remembered about the cortisone gel on my buttocks. I wonder.

Can you get a dose of cortisol from the gel applied to the skin? It

felt like it. And if so, how would one know what dose they were

getting with each dab from the tube?

Many questions here. I appreciate your help very much.