Suddenly I don't need cortisol anymore? Extreme fatigue and AGS cured?

So last year I had a lot of health problems, I had a serious case of candida in my intestines, I had low cortisol and was having adrenal crisises. I also suffered from low iron anemia.

My endocinrologist sorted me out by having tests done (way better than the GP, who said it was probably low vitamine D).

I was diagnosed with AGS (Adreno Genital Syndrome) because I had very low cortisol and very high DHEA (a type of natural steroid hormone) which was weird because that's when children are born with defected adrenals causing to look more masculine or feminine than they should. It also causes very low energy due to the lack of cortisol or stress hormone. I kept asking the endo whether I really had AGS, because it was kinda late to be born with "defected adrenals". How could they know my adrenals were broken?

I knew what I had been through: extreme stress from university, medication, heart breaks, depression, agression, poor diet along some period in uni, the stress from being in a city, and in the end a lot of infections such as gastritis, costochondritis, even bursitis.

One year long I needed a lot of cortisol to take away the vomit inducing fatigue that had me crippled. I was falling asleep behind the wheel and on my bike, it wasn't normal. I increased my iron intake, I moved back home full time, stopped taking public transport, started adding more nutrients to my diet, had regular tests done, took harmless medication for the candida, started to learn drinking quality filtered water, took more vitamins in as often as possible and finally I had an intolerance test done and reoved wheat and dairy from my diet as much as I could.

The result? I don't need to take cortisol anymore! This has been going on for three weeks and I'm extatic about it! Taking cortisol is annoying because well it's hard to regulate your own cortisol, it's much nicer to have good functioning adrenals. It's also not practical to take it on time. I also needed more when I had a crisis and felt like the doctor wasn't prescribing enough. In the end I also felt like the lack of adrenaline that I was getting was making me fat. I wasn't feeling stress anymore. Now I enjoy that light rush again when I get out of a car or on a bicycle. It doesn't make me sick anymore. Lord what had happened to me that it had gotten so far.

There is only one explenation, my lifestyle did cure my adrenal fatigue. I think I was somewhere in stage 13 of 15 and at some point I was in complete shock and got seizures. I'm not getting any of that anymore, I have good energy for this time of year even though I haven't gotten a lot of sun. It's cool outside to keep my head cool and I'm avoiding as much stress as a can to not ruin this very important change in my life: having my health back.

Apart from these remedies I mentioned, I would like to warn people for certain apects in life that can destroy your health and adrenals: don't move somewhere that you don't really know, if you're in uni, spread the stress and don't keep it all for during exams (I know that spread stress feels like multiplied stress but it isn't!), surround yourself with family, stop thinking of the past, don't take medication for infection but actually heal the infections as much as you can, change your diet so your body can repair itself, avoid stresses by which I also mean nasty household products, city noise, oxidants from polution, pesticides, plastic,... artificial foods... And most of all... get over those broken hearts...

A lot of things in life are not good for us... but if we want we can avoid them and become better. Also a good visit to the right specialist might save you from taking (the wrong) medication.

x

Helena