Posted by KaraS on August 21, 2004, at 17:26:06
In a post to Ilene on the health board you wrote:
"One of your links connected the specific effect to a parodoxical response to adrenaline. The key disruption in CFS is, IMHO, adrenal. Heat and psychological stressors can both trigger adrenal responses...."
I think this ties in to what you were trying to tell me in an earlier post. My CFS and adrenal fatigue are perhaps more related than I realized. They would also explain the paradoxical responses I've had to noradrenergic supplements and medications, no? Am I correct in thinking that the CFS/AF is probably the reason that I take supplements and meds that are stimulating for most people, yet for me I become groggy and exhausted? The "heat triggering adrenal responses" also ties in with the cholinergic urticaria.
Sometimes I think why do I have so many of these strange conditions. Maybe I'm just a hypochondriac but the truth is that they're all related. You start with one of them and they can easily lead to all of the others. If I'm interpreting you correctly, they even lead to how you react to alternative and pharmaceutical antidepressants.
(OK, maybe that was a little more than one question.)
Kara
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