Posted by viper1431 on September 28, 2009, at 22:06:22
In reply to Re: SSRI's and body weakness, posted by bleauberry on September 28, 2009, at 17:05:02
> I mentioned the Integrative MDs because you would want to be tested for cortisol (4 saliva samples in a day in order to see the entire curve over a 24 hour period). Any other cortisol tests are worthless, as they only tell you if your adrenals are dead or alive. Would you want a heart test that only says your heart is dead or alive at the moment you take a single test? This would identify adrenal hypofunction commonly called adrenal fatigue. The primary symptoms are weakness, fatigue, and depression, worsened by a wide variety of meds and supplements.
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> If the adrenals are weak, thyroid is too, regardless of what your blood tests say. Those numbers are a very broad scale...people who are actually hypothyroid may appear normal on a test and yet have their symptoms resolve completely with thyroid treatment.
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> If you have ever had any exposure to ticks, that opens a whole new chapter that is a possible explanation of your entire journey since day 1.I have actually asked a few doctors about a cortisol test but it seems no one wants to let me have one. You have to stay in hospital overnight here to get one done and it has to be by an endocsomething which takes months to see because of our awesome waiting periods and our hospital is already running over 100% capacity. It's a pain in the backside trying to get much done here.
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