The anxiety gets worse when you don't eat or when you eat the wrong things. Why? Blood sugar. As a result of the chronic stress you've taxed your adrenals. Adrenals help regulate blood sugar. You need to stop eating sugar and simple carbs/junk... Don't drink coffee or alcohol. This will make your anxiety worse. Instead, eat protein and vegetables like a champ. You'll feel better anxious-wise gradually. The heart palpitations are the last thing to get resolved.
If you're like me and continue to drink alcohol and sugar, thinking how worse could it get? You'll end up twitching from anxiety and will need anti-depressants to gain an edge. Then, you'll have to eat healthy anyways, so start now. Vegetables and meat. The only bread you should eat for a few months should be absolute "multiple-grain" ie. Ad complex carbohydrate as it gets. Don't do Adkins/Ketogenic but eat tons of proteins. You should be eating enough that you gain weight!
Acupuncture is the best "doctor" help that exists for adrenal fatigue. Trust me, I've tried all doctors/every quick fix imaginable. Do acupuncture and try licorice root supplementation in the meantime.
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You will see improvement slowly but surely--after about three weeks.
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Just like you i've been suffering from adrenal fatigue since i was 18, i'm now 34. However, since the beginning of this year i've been healing. I finally realised what was wrong with me for the first time in my life. WHen i was 18 just before the fatigue started, i used to do lots of sport and i was not eating properly. I didn't think it would affect my health. These 2 things plus the fact that i had a lot of emotional stress kicked started my fatigue. For the first time in seventeen years i've started to have my energy back and feel stronger and stronger each day. These are the things that i've done to see these changes : i eat better, that means lots of everything apart from sugar, caffeine, starchy food, i've also cut out the emotional stress by getting rid of certain people from my life and i've stopped pushing myself on the exercise. I do yoga now and it's fantastic. I notice that even the smallest about of sugar makes me tired especially if eaten in the morning. Also i sleep as much as possible. But the thing that makes the biggest difference to me in improving my energy has been reducing the sugar and starchy food in my diet !!
I think it's basically about REMOVING STRESS elements form your life. Whatever you thing causes you to feel tired, stop it !!!!! do this and you'll see improvements.
I don't take supplements and i've fine, I think the body has a natural ability to repair itself only if you stop bombarding it with stress and work to do. I drink chamimile tea instead of coffee. Yoga instead of aerobics. healthy a balanced diet instead of c**p. You will feel it in your body when you've done or eaten something it doesn't like. just listen to your body and remove every form of stress, and you'll start to see changes like i did. hope this helps
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I'm an 18-year old freshman college student dealing with adrenal fatigue. So far, my first semester in college as been awful; I haven't made any friends because I'm always tired/depressed, and I can hardly concentrate on my studies. I used to be normal kid, but now I feel like I'm sort of freak because I have this condition and my complete absence of friends. What did I do to deserve this? I just want to be normal again...
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SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU HAVE HYPOTHYROIDISM AND POSSIBLY ADRENAL FATIGUE. GO TO STOPTHETHYROIDMADNESS.COM FOR GREAT INFO ON THIS SUBJECT, I KNOW YOUR POST IS OLD, BIT MAYBE IT WILL HELP SOMEONE ELSE.
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I just came across this while researching online and I just have to reply to guest above (even though it was written 7 years ago) that is completely wrong! Emotional stress does affect the adrenal system and the entire body, for example Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is diagnosed, recognized and treated by even Western/Mainstream medical community.
Oh that's just so inaccurate I really hope no one actually believes that. And adrenal functioning is more closely related to cortisol (not adrenalin, which is actually called epinephrine) a main hormone involved with regulating many body systems and is produced in response to stress (including mental or emotional, because that has a direction physical effect on the body-- increased heart rate, shallower respirations, etc.).
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I am recovering slowly by getting off all drugs very very slowly, but steadily. My adrenal break down was caused by steroids prescribed for allergies. Read the Silent Epidemic
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Yes! I got adrenal fatigue by doctor prescribed hydrocortisone every year for allergies. It took slow crawling months of reducing the drug and hoping my adrenals would start producing cortisol. I am now starting to be energetic again. But, yes yes stress is harmful.
I had no natural cortisol. As I began to produce my own, I noticed immediately that even thinking stressful thoughts brought about obvious physical weakness.
I am willing to help anyone with my program of getting away from these drugs, but you must do it with a doctor's help and knowledge in case anything else is involved. It is so serious. Now that I have got away from the drugs, I avoid any more pharmacueticals. They caused this! My doctor used to push what he thought were marvelous new drugs. Now I will not take anything. I can say that though because I think I am recovering.
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Hi, You may have Hyperthyroidism .. If you haven't done it already, get your thyroid hormones checked..
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How are you doing now? Any changes? I also work in health industry (a typical care giver, perhaps giving too much, and always active walking every where etc).
I feel like I pinched a nerve in my upper neck near brain stem that has drained my arms and lungs and legs and passion for learning. Or like I have intermittent claudication to my limbs and organs. Or a massive deficiency from doing too much and being vegan.
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