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Adrenal fatigu, exhaustion. Please help!

For the past year I've suffered from physical exhaustion, mental confusion and inability to focus. No matter how much I rest these symptoms don't get any better, they've been steadily getting worse. I also have incredibly debilitating anxiety at times, and irritability that is irrational and unjustified. I have a quite a few health problems and the main issues I just listed seem to be symptoms of most of my health problems.

I feel restless and easily startled. I have Hypoglycemia, and if I don't eat every three or four hours I start to feel my energy steadily draining away as I get weaker. If I go for five hours without eating I'll be shaky and unsteady if I move at all.

I have had a vaginal Candida infection for four years. I don't have the usual profuse coating and discharge of mucous, just a bit of white coating - like in thrush - and clear discharge at times, but only in small amounts. The main sympoems are itching and excessive moistness. It itches almost constantly, even after a shower. I tried baby powder with cornstarch to combat the moistness, which it helped, but the cornstarch fed the candida and made me itch even more. I tried talc baby powder and it takes care of the moistness and doesn't aggravate the itching further.

I have thrush on my tongue, and a horrible taste in my mouth if I miss brushing my teeth. The essence of the taste is always there whether I brush them or not. I feet tired and always have a runny nose and and slightly congested lungs, as if I always have a cold. In the past couple of months I've tried dropping Tea Tree oil down my throat and brushing with it on my tooth brush every night. It did kill some of the thrush, but it was almost as healthy the next morning. I quit using the Tea Tree oil eventually because as I was fighting it the thrush started causing me to be even more tired, and my lungs became so congested it was like having bronchitis. The congestion went down a little after I stopped fighting the thrush, but I'm still congested. I can't do anything physically strenuous without being almost completely out of breath, which is unusual for me. Even though I'm overweight I've always had a reasonably good lung capacity, until now.

I have Candida overgrowth in my stomach and intestines. Whenever I eat white sugar, white bread, anything made with white flour, like donuts or pasta, I immediately have gas, and eventually I get diarrhea. The odor is very strong and putrid.

I'm dangerously overweight, especially carrying a lot of abdominal fat that I've gained in the past stressful year. I've been overweight since I was about 5, but at 18 I lost almost one hundred pounds and was down to 235. Over the past year I've gained that hundred back. I've felt very weak and tired because of my hypoglycemia, and have been eating more proteins and vegetables. But the vegetables have been inorganic and probably void of nutrition, and the proteins have been high in fat (eggs fried in oil, cheeses and meats.) I'm still learning, obviously.

Whenever I eat a lot of cheese and oil I get diarrhea, so I think my gall bladder might be out of sorts.

I have more than 100 warts on the back of my left hand. They're smooth, raised little patches. They started as just a few, and the more stressed I've been and the worse my health has gotten in the past five or six years, the faster they've spread. I've tried a salicylic acid gel to burn them off, but it was never effective enough to get rid of the warts, and it was too painful and damaging to my skin to keep using it. I've tried putting vitamin E on the warts and it didn't work, but I didn't leave it on for more than two days.

I've given up on trying to exercise at all, because when I do it makes me exhausted and anxious.

My skin is dry all the time. If I wash my hands more than a few times without putting on lotion afterward my hands will start to get chapped, and will easily crack and bleed.

I have thin finger nails, but not really brittle. In the few times that I've been on vitamin supplements I've noticed that my nails were stronger and grew much faster. When I went off the vitamins my nails went back to being thinner and a bit weaker.

When I'm especially tired my vision goes blurry, and my eyes become hard to focus.

since I got my ears pierced my earring holes have been prone to infection.

I have trouble focusing on most things for more than a few minutes, unless it's something that's incredibly simple or passive, like watching tv. I quickly forget things I heard just a minute before, I find it hard to finish sentences when I'm really stressed, and hard to pronounce words sometimes. Sometimes when I try to think my mind goes blank, and trying to force an idea makes it even more impossible to think. I can't stand a lot of distractions because they derail my train of thought and it's hard to get back on track. All of this goes along with mental exhaustion. I can no longer focus long enough and well enough to write stories and songs, which I love to do.

Sometimes I can be in the middle of doing something and suddenly have a wave of unreality wash over me, as if I'm not real and what I'm seeing and doing aren't real. Everything starts to seem hazy around the edges of my vision, and dreamlike. I've had this happen along with symptoms of hypoglycemia, so I know it could be related to blood sugar levels.

Sometimes I feel depressed because it's hard to even continue existing when you have no quality of life. I don't believe that there is dignity in defeat, and I'm not clinically depressed, so usually I can overcome my depression by talking myself out of it, or distracting myself with an interesting book or a movie. When I can't distract myself I feel awful for awhile, but I eventually naturally get over it.

When I'm overcome with discouragement and depression I start to feel like I'm grieving.

I don't cry often, but when I do I cry long and hard. Oddly, it's usually crying like someone who's grief stricken.


I feel hopeless at my lowest point. I want to accomplish something every minute of the day, and it feels like a horrible waste to be so helpless and immobile. I feel lowly and unable to change my circumstances. I feel useless and exhausted, but it's not so bad that it makes me resign myself to quit trying to get better.

I've been able to trace the main cause. It all started when I was 17 years old and I started exercising to lose weight. I did eventually lose 100 pounds, but I did it by ignoring the effects of my unhealthy diet and pushing myself to overexercise. By the time I was 19 I'd worked my body too hard without replenishing it, and I started to see major consequences of that. Also, around that time my family had taken in several very disturbed and disturbing children that I didn't get along with. They always made too much noise and were very intrusive in our lives. From this and the overexercising I became anxious and stressed. My stomach knotted up and it started knotting up my intestines, until my digestion was slowed almost to a grinding halt, and my adrenal glands were overworked. I was constipated all the time, passing stool maybe only twice a week, which was unusual for me. It tended to be round and hard and compacted. I also felt nauseous all the time, and exhausted. And always anxious and jittery. I spent a year and a half like that with no improvement. I've had issues with anxiety ever since.

Things did improve quite a bit. It took me another year and a half to effect something close to a recovery. I started to learn how to relax and deal better with stress, and how to resolve personal issues in a more peaceful and constructive way. I started trying to be more careful of what I ate and what I did. I was able to slowly loosen the tension in my stomach, return my digestion to normal and quit having anxiety attacks all the time. I still had tightness in the stomach when I became nervous, but I eventually relaxed the tightness away. I continued a slow, steady recovery, gaining more peace of mind and health, taking interests in new things and developing new talents.

A year ago I experienced a reversal in recovery. I was experiencing a very stressful environment at work and a very stressful move. I found that increasingly, no matter how I tried to relax and recover from the stress and anxiety of the day, I couldn't. I couldn't focus, I was more and more impatient and irritable. I was anxious and fearful of facing the petty tyrant of a boss at work. I started feeling so exhausted, because no matter how much I slept I couldn't take the edge off of that exhaustion. I found that being in large gatherings of people was overwhelming to me because of the noise and the confusion. I started limiting what I could do and where I could go to avoid aggravating my symptoms. But the more I limited what I did, the less and less I could face doing. I'm now to the point where I can't comfortably leave my home, and I spend most of my time alone to avoid the complication of dealing with other people.

I wake up tired, rest doesn't take the edge off of exhaustion. I am sometimes anxious in the mid to late morning and early afternoon. A lot of noise or a lot of people around me will make me nervous, and effects me most in the early part of the day. I feel tired in the afternoon, but as it gets later into the day I feel more awake and less anxious. I'm most settled in the evening and night, but around midnight I start feeling overwhelmed from what's happened all day and having low energy. I sometimes become anxious again, and with tiredness comes the rigidity of thinking that rules out rationality, and can lead to paranoia if I'm tired enough.

Heat generally makes me feel more irritable. Loud noises and conversation going on around me make it difficult to concentrate or think. I can't read if I'm in a room of people. Being alone makes it easier to function mentally, and more harmonious emotionally. I usually can't relax unless I'm alone or with people I trust not to do anything to upset or startle me.

Loud noises, especially unexpected noises, and things that are out of the ordinary can make me nervous. When I'm nervous I find that rocking in a rhythmically can calm me. Doing heavy lifting when I'm angry or restless can give me a feeling of being grounded that makes it easier to deal with my feelings.

There are a few certain people who I become anxious around. It's usually because I've felt that way in stressful situations when I was helpless to protect myself from their cruel comments, bullying, careless and destructive behavior, and that seems to have programed an anxious response in me.

When I go into my period the hormonal adjustment and PMS I experience make me even more irritable and prone to anxiety.

I don't like cold or dry weather, but I especially hate hot, humid weather. I find it oppressive, it makes me more irritable and impatient. I like it when it rains, when there's cloud cover, and I love the cooler temperatures of mid to late spring and mid to late fall. I prefer a cool to moderate climate.

I tend to be compassionate and empathetic, which is counterbalanced by my being easily offended and suspicious and critical of others every step of the way in most of my relationships. I am moody and often regrettably waste a lot of time worrying needlessly about nothing. I'm committed to whatever I undertake and loyal to those that I love and respect. I tend to be unrealistically perfectionistic and demanding of others. I prize sincerity and a sense of purpose, and the tenacious ability to achieve and produce worthwhile things. And I have an unerring tendency to be self-righteous.

I feel calm around the time of a thunder storm. I like the cool from the cloud cover and the glare of the sun being muted. I feel safely isolated by the clouds being so close and dark that they wall out everything upward. But I don't like the noise of thunder, or the danger of it.

I like to be consoled during my difficult times because it gives me hope. I usually downplay what the person is saying or doing for me, but I remember for a long time what they said and did and it cheers me up and reassures me.

I'm very sensitive to light touch, especially when it's unexpected. I don't like for things or people to brush up against me. I dislike lights that are very bright, they hurt my eyes and make it hard for them to focus. I'm extremely sensitive to noise, even moderate noise. But I'm especially sensitive to shrill noises. Few things bother me more or make me feel more helpless than hearing a shrill bark from an excited dog. (I hate Beagles!)

I drum with my fingers (or a pen or pencil if it's in my hand at the time) in rhythmic patterns when I'm bored, and it distracts me. I like to sing when I'm alone at night. I like to whistle when I'm alone and relaxed.

I periodically ate dirt as a child, the taste of wet dirt reminded me of the moist, earth smell of rain. I also used to chew on bits of cardboard or paper to have something to do with my mouth.

I don't have many friends, certainly not many close friends. I've always been close to my immediate family in a lot of ways. I love them and believe highly in their individual potential

I don't get along well with my extended family and have little contact with them.

I'm afraid of heights. It makes me nervous to climb stairs that go even one story high, especially if there are flimsy railings, or no railings, and spaces between the steps where you can see the ground when you look down. I feel unstable on my feet when I'm above ground level.

I have fears and concerns about my future. I fear being limited by the choices and ignorance of others.

I fear having to face the people that make me anxious, that I've never been able to confront. I usually avoid them, when I can't I try to stay in the background away from their attention. Hidingg makes me feel helpless, which makes me immobile and more afraid. It becomes a vicious cycle.

I fear being the center of attention of a large crowd, in giving a speech or being pointed out for something I've done that was good.

I love Mexican food! I sometimes crave mozzarella cheese and cottage cheese. I crave salt when I'm stressed, and when I go into my period.

I find the rubbery texture of mushrooms disgusting, and will pick them out of food. I don't hate the taste, though I don't really like it.

I'm usually not thirsty, even when I need water. I have to remind myself to drink it. When I get preoccupied and forgetful from stress I can easily forget to drink what I need for a day or two. I've probably been at least mildly dehydrated for most of my life. When I get to be extremely dehydrated I get a headache with tremendous pressure in the front of my head and throbbing cramps in the calves of my legs. If the cramps don't go away after taking in the calcium from a pickle (learned from my grandpa) I know that it's all from dehydration.

I eat a lot because if I don't eat every three to four hours I'll start feeling weak from hypoglycemia. I naturally have a good appetite, anyway. I find that eating several medium sized meals spaced out makes me feel more stable, I have less chance of experiencing loss of physical strength.

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
I don't know that I have any food allergies. I don't have a broad variety in my diet, and have never been exposed to a lot of foods that are foreign to America. I know that tomato sauce gives me heartburn. I know I'm allergic to Penicillin.

I inherited from my mother's family the tendency to sweat profusely and easily. I sweat most from my forehead, my legs and especially the inside of my thighs.

My bowel movements are frequent, usually one a day, sometimes more. Stool is large and firm, and generally easy to pass. When I eat too many meats and fats or sugar and white flour products I get diarrhea, but it usually doesn't last long.

Most nights I'm so tired that I fall asleep easily and sleep all the way through to morning. I wake up tired. Being asleep is usually merely being unconscious for a period of time, and is not restful.

I sleep on my sides, sometimes on my back. I can't stand to sleep on my stomach. I don't use a pillow because it's too much elevation and makes my neck stiff. I sleep with a small blanket under my neck, or nothing at all between my head and the mattress.

When I'm unusually stressed I have trouble falling asleep, I toss and turn restlessly, and in the middle of the night realize that I'm awake. Sometimes extreme unresolved and unexpressed issues will manifest themselves in my dreams, where I'll dream about angrily confronting someone, or I'll dream that a scary situation I've been afraid of will finally happen. These dreams might be self-therapy, a way of exploring what would happen if I really confronted and experienced what I was afraid of. I always feel better emotionally after having one of these dreams. I don't have many therapy dreams, and, generally, I don't dream often. When I do dream, I don't rest as well, and I forget most of my dreams right after waking up.

To my recollection the closest that I've come to ever having the same dream twice was having a dream and in the same night having a second dream with a totally different setting and theme where portions and themes of the first dream are viewed and discussed, especially at the end of the second dream.

I'm definitely an individual. I'm intuitive about people. I can pick things out about their personalities that most people can't. I have a natural generosity and graciousness, and a desire for refined and elegant surroundings. I'm also sensitive to criticism despite being critical myself.

When I was 12 I was on Wellbutrine, Buspar and Celexa for depression and agression for about a year. I felt more level emotionally on them, but I felt sedated. Their side-effect was drowsiness, which I hated. After I got off of them there were no long-lasting effects. Other than the three listed before I haven't been on many medications, no more than antibiotics and painkillers, as far as I can remember.


On my father's side there is Altzheimer's Disease, and Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), and dementia.

On my mother's side there is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Quite a few of my female cousins have it, or signs of it, and many of my maternal aunts have symptoms of it.
There is also a biological disposition to cancer, heart attacks, strokes and depression and anxiety attack.

'm a 23-year-old woman.I'm about five feet, six inches tall, and way about three hundred pounds. I have light golden brown hair and light green eyes.

My periods have usually been regular, but under stress they can be extremely late. For the past year all of my periods have been late by at least a week. There have been several months where I have skipped a period, once I skipped two in a row. my next period after that was very painful and brought incapacitating physical exhaustion and brain fog. My periods last for about four or five days. Flow starts halfway into the first day, is heavy and continues for the next day and a half. On the third day the flow slows and stops. On the fourth day it starts again heavily and painfully. It usually stops on the fifth day.

I retain fluid the week before my period, my legs swell, but not painfully. I release the fluid the week of my period. I have PMS on the week before my period and it is worst on the first day of my period. After that there is a short let up where I feel better, but toward the end of my period the PMS gets worse again. The slightest annoyance can set me off. I'm extremely irritable and irrational, and get angry at things for no justifiable reason. When something happens, even if it's minor, to me it feels like a disaster. I cry easily and feel as if I'm grieving. I feel like I can't concentrate or think clearly. I have menstrual cramps that run down into my thighs. They are relieved by movement, massage, pressure and heat.

The menstrual discharge is mostly clots,, the color is dark maroon, sometimes almost black. It smells metallic and old.

I've never tried any homeopathic remedies before, but the more I know about it the more sense it makes to me. Recently I've been learning a lot about it and I find it fascinating.
 
  chrysalis on 2010-08-04
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
to me, my guess is you sound like Nat Mur 200c can help you greatly.

but please wait for other qualified person to say so.
 
dragonfly1976 last decade
Thank you for your suggestion, I'll research it.
 
chrysalis last decade

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