Re: Awake again at night--too little or too much nutri-meds adrenals?

March 11, 2005

I was going to say it could be either scenario. But, when you said

that your temps dropped to 97.0, that is more of an indication that

your cortisol is too low. My own experience has been that I got hot

flashes at night every time I got overstressed or did too much

activity the day before. The severity depended on how stressed I got

or how much too much activity I did. For me, it would sometimes take

several days up to a week to recover from an overstress that

happened on just on one day or even on one hour of one day.

I have found that taking extra adrenal support after the main stress

event doesn't seem to fix the later crash or bad sleep. It's like I

have to do extra adrenal support at the same time as the stress or

just before it. Doing extra adrenal support after seemed to help me

recover faster, but didn't avert the consequences - night sweats and

fatigue.

Also, I have found that adrenal support itself seems to make me much

more limited in the amount of stress I can take and that my attempts

to medicate for stresses usually resulted in missing the mark or

either overshooting what I needed or undershooting. They talk about

this problem in 's patients and how trying to medicate for

extra stresses is basically just guesswork as there is no good way

at all to know how much you need for each event.

I think sometimes that extra adrenal support can also disturb your

circadian rythem and maybe make your sleep less deep and

restorative, since the body requires a definite cortisol pattern of

high in the morning and tapering down all day to the lowest point at

the middle of the night sometime to get a proper sleep cycle.

Anyway, with me, I usually recover within 3 days to a week.

Tish

March 11, 2005

Thanks, Tish. I do feel like I'm just doing a guessing game right now

with the adrenal support. I know my adrenals aren't recovered enough

from my health problems of the last few years to deal adequately with

the stress from my hubby, but I just don't know how much I need right

now.

I did feel pretty calm during the actual trauma and at the hospital,

but perhaps I am crashing from that. And then add the constant stress

of the rest of the week with him, it might take a while to recover.

Hopefully, things will calm down back into boring soon.

Just when you're starting to feel better and think you're getting

close to figuring it out, something new changes the game!

Thanks again

Debbie

>

> I was going to say it could be either scenario. But, when you said

> that your temps dropped to 97.0, that is more of an indication that

> your cortisol is too low. My own experience has been that I got hot

> flashes at night every time I got overstressed or did too much

> activity the day before. The severity depended on how stressed I got

> or how much too much activity I did. For me, it would sometimes take

> several days up to a week to recover from an overstress that

> happened on just on one day or even on one hour of one day.

>

> I have found that taking extra adrenal support after the main stress

> event doesn't seem to fix the later crash or bad sleep. It's like I

> have to do extra adrenal support at the same time as the stress or

> just before it. Doing extra adrenal support after seemed to help me

> recover faster, but didn't avert the consequences - night sweats and

> fatigue.

>

> Also, I have found that adrenal support itself seems to make me much

> more limited in the amount of stress I can take and that my attempts

> to medicate for stresses usually resulted in missing the mark or

> either overshooting what I needed or undershooting. They talk about

> this problem in 's patients and how trying to medicate for

> extra stresses is basically just guesswork as there is no good way

> at all to know how much you need for each event.

>

> I think sometimes that extra adrenal support can also disturb your

> circadian rythem and maybe make your sleep less deep and

> restorative, since the body requires a definite cortisol pattern of

> high in the morning and tapering down all day to the lowest point at

> the middle of the night sometime to get a proper sleep cycle.

>

> Anyway, with me, I usually recover within 3 days to a week.

>

> Tish

March 11, 2005