Adrenal Fatique: how to fix it

If you go to the doctor with the following symptoms:

• always feeling tired ( waking up already tired, on lighter stage feeling tired after lunch time, feeling sleepy after 3-4 in the afternoon)
• hypoglycemia (it’s when your blood sugar drops all of a sudden and you have to eat something urgently, otherwise you might feel like about to pass out, dark in your eyes, vertigo if you didn’t eat on time)
• low blood pressure 110/60 or 90/60 ( at certain stages of adrenal fatigue the blood pressure can be too high)
• foggy mind ( hard to focus your mind on your tasks for extended period of time, even if it is essential or interesting for you, you might get easily distracted, yawn, unnecessarily move around etc. )
• heightened heart rate ( your pulse increases in normal passive situations like sitting calmly, not only while working out or other active states)
• anxiety or worry( always feeling like you forgot to do something, or expecting that something bad will happen, feeling restless and unable to relax even in relaxing environment)
• «stubborn» weight ( it doesn’t go down when you change your diet or comes back immediately when you stop restrictions)
• insomnia ( you can’t fall asleep at 10PM -11 PM in the evening, toss and turn until 2-3AM, the deepest sleep is just before the dawn and therefore it’s hard to wake up at 7-8 AM in the morning. In the afternoon you feel sleepy after lunch or in the evening. But after 9 PM you feel active and awake. All this shows a broken cortisol cycle which has to help you wake up in the morning, slow down in the evening, giving your nervous system time to calm down and sleep well at night )
• PMS ( bloating before menstrual cycle, feeling irritated, pain in the lower back), amenorrhea, dismenorrhea, no ovulation
• strong cravings for sweet or salty foods( potato chips/crisps, salty snacks for beer like salty cheese, salted nuts, salted dry fish etc)
• lowered thyroid function ( it could be diagnosed hypothyroidism, blood TSH higher than 1, while the allopathic medicine norm would be 0.4-4.0, the holistic medicine would suggest more narrow 0.4-1.0 levels of TSH
• depression ( clinical depression always follows adrenal fatigue on stages 3-5)
• food, supplements or medicine intolerance( often times to the products you’ve been consuming all you life and all of a sudden become intolerant. Sometimes allergic reactions to cleaning products or cosmetics you’ve been using before. I would add all allergies here, including sun allergy)
• low libido ( gradual loss of the sexual needs without trauma. You can explain it with age, lack of a partner or long stable marriage. But sexual interest indicates hormonal status of a person, it can be channelled into a drive for work, career growth, sports etc.)

Your doctor will probably ask you to make tests and will not find anything that needs treatment. Maybe a little bit of inflammation. Maybe lowered thyroid function, heightened blood sugar. ( At the beginning stage it won’t be too visible from tests, at the next level the tests will show more)