Anyone know anything about them? I went to a "kitchen cosmetics" workshop last week and it was awesome. At one point the teacher mentioned
massaging the lower back with a salt scrub because "we women get tired mid-afternoon" and that massaging the adrenal glands are good for us. I always
get tired dead on at 3 pm so I briefly googled adrenal glands. Of course you shouldn't google your health, I know that, and you are not docs. Anyway under
adrenal fatigue I found many of the symptoms I experience. Anyone out there who's been diagnosed with it and what can be done?
I seem to be doing many of the suggestions already, healthy diet, excercise, reduce stress, no alcohol or smoking (not a problem for me), but how can I give up
my one coffee a day?
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In the book "Three Men In A Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome, the narrator "J" goes to the library and just happens to flip open a medical book.
After reading an entry and determining he had THAT disease, he read a few more, and determined that he had those, too. He went to his doctor and told him that
he wouldn't waste the doctor's time telling him what J had. No, J would just tell the doctor what he did NOT suffere from. Housemaid's knee was
the only ailment he was not suffering from. The doctor gave him a prescription. He went to have it filled, and the chemist said he couldn't fill it. The
prescription read, "2 pints bitter, one steak and kidney pie, lots of exercise, and don't go filling your head up with things you know nothing
about."
Wink, wink, Berna Unfortunately adrenal fatigue's symtoms are too general to be useful for anything. Tired, stressed out, weight gain, no sex drive, burnt out. I just blame it on my job.
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All I know about mine is that they don't work right. When I need them to work they don't pump any adrenaline, when I don't need them, they do.
Sometimes I have to be careful when I stand up after sitting for a time, because I start to pass out. I was diagnosed with low functioning adrenals when I was
in my late teens.
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Posts: 672 07/01/09 06:52:23 |
I get dizzy all the time too which is one of the symptoms. I know I have to go to the doc anyway.
But remember docs aren't always that helpful either. I'm sure they get tons of people saying this and that hurts and dismiss most of them. Usually when I say I'm always tired they brush it off. Same with I have to pee all the time. Doc said unless you get up more than twice a night to go to the bathroom you don't have a problem. So I wrote down over a 2-day period how many times I go and showed it to her. She said wow that sure is a lot... and didn't do anything about it. Maybe there isn't, don't know. So I just live with it. But I'm tired of being tired all the time and no doc would take that seriously enough to spend time looking for the cause! Remember, the quicker they can get you out of their office the more money they make. They make money on the number of people they see per day, not on the number of diagnosis they make. Docs offices are becoming more like a business and less like a doctor's office who cares about the welfare of its patients. Yes, I'm cynical, out of experience. W My fond memories of Charlie are his gifts to me for life. |
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Posts: 1189 07/02/09 09:56:28 |
Sometimes you have to go to a specialist. For the pee problem, was that a GP or a urologist who did nothing when you showed them your notes?
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Posts: 674 07/02/09 11:09:34 |
GP, but try to get a referral to a urologist and then an appointment from them. I'm glad and lucky I don't really have any health problems.
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