Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms
Are you suffering from Adrenal Fatigue?
Adrenal fatigue is more common than you might think. Many times throughout my life I have felt incredibly tired, sometimes sleeping for hours on end, sometimes suffering with insomnia. Other issues I battled with, was weight. I couldn’t understand why it was so difficult to lose it even though I was eating very little. I didn’t exercise because I always felt exhausted. A full time job and a baby to look after I just put it down to everyday life. That’s just how it was. I visited my GP to try and find out what was causing me to feel the way I did. I had a couple of blood tests that didn’t show anything apart from my thyroid, which was slightly underactive. Over a period of time my GP decided to give me a metaphorical sticking plaster and prescribed thyroxin to which I’ve been taking for 15 years or more.
If I’d known that I was suffering with Adrenal Fatigue I might have opted to take another route. We’ve now got a better understanding and instead of applying sticking plasters for the problem there are other routes you can take. Adrenal Fatigue is when your adrenal glands are being overworked due to excessive amounts of stress hormones such as adrenalin and cortisol that are dumped in the body.
Our ancestors used a natural system that was developed to use these stress hormones in a more productive way. When they were faced with danger, their bodies would produce stress hormones that were designed to help them escape or fight the danger off. When the danger had passed and they had survived, the stress hormones returned to normal levels and they could go about their daily routine of hunting for food and building shelters.
The problem today is that we use this system not only when we’re faced with a physical danger, but when we’re faced with emotional danger too. The glands are often beaten up, antagonised and injured.
This is because our modern perceived danger comes from changes in circumstances such as: financial problems, worries, job loss, break down in family relationships, kids, teenagers, as well as the need to compete and be the best.
Where are the Adrenal Glands in the Body?
Your adrenal glands are located at the top of your kidneys, they are part of your endocrine system and they are hormone producing organs.
Are you being poisoned by stress hormones?
Adrenal Fatigue is serious and is one of the most important health problems we all face. Stress hurts, and high levels of adrenalin in your body over a period of time can lead to depression. Stress hormones irritate your body.
There can be many times in your life when you can be susceptible to adrenal fatigue. Certain groups such as women who are going through their menopause can cause an imbalance that deposit huge amounts of stress into their system.
When you were younger, your ovaries were producing hormones and everything was evenly balanced. Then all of a sudden all that changed and extra burden is put onto the adrenals when they may already be overworked due to the demands of a modern lifestyle which you may have very little influence over.
We’re all born perfect, with perfect systems. Somewhere along the way the systems are being compromised every day, until they become so compromised that your body starts to break down. Learning to read the signals can prevent this from happening.
We’ll never know how our body works because there are too many variables. We witness the miracle of an unborn child developing in its mother’s womb and all the intricate patterns that that entails to the lack of understanding when someone who has a chronic illness and survives, when another person doesn’t. We still have a lot to learn and our body is always teaching us.
Your body reacts to the signals it is being given. You just need to listen to it more often and by doing so you can often prevent a break down occurring.
What can cause Adrenal Fatigue?
- Divorce or stressful relationships
- Relocation without support
- Job changes – loss of stability
- Stressful job
- Chronic inadequate sleep (example a new parent a new shift pattern)
- Death of a loved one
- Financial problems
- Starting a business
- Chronis illness or major surgery
Five signs that may indicate an adrenal stress problem
- Dizziness
- High cortisol and high blood pressure
- Low cortisol and low blood pressure
- Poor sleep
- Fatigue
I’d like to leave you with this thought.
Using a sticking plaster to stem the flow will stem it to some degree, but doesn’t the real solution to the problem come from finding out where that flow is coming from in the first place. You can then prevent it from happening and remove the sticking plaster altogether?
Natural Supplements and Therapies such as: Regular Massage, Nutritional Health, Acupuncture, Reflexology, Herbal Medicine and Kinesiology can help restore your adrenal functioning.
For more information on how to prevent adrenal fatigue and how you can restore your energy levels
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