Posted by KaraS on August 22, 2004, at 15:16:20
In reply to Re: One question on CFS, adrenaline and NE -Larry » KaraS, posted by Larry Hoover on August 22, 2004, at 10:38:50
> > In a post to Ilene on the health board you wrote:
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> > "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...."
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> > 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?
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> Oui.
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> > 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?
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> It begs the question. It's hard to be sure.
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> > The "heat triggering adrenal responses" also ties in with the cholinergic urticaria.
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> Yes, via sympathetic nervous stimulation (mediated, in part, via the HPA).
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> > 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.
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> Yes, they are related.
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> > 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.
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> That is a conclusion I have reached, yes.
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> > (OK, maybe that was a little more than one question.)
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> > Kara
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> I can't count.
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> LarI was "counting" on that!
"One" more question:
I still don't quite understand why stimulant medications or supplements are so bad for you when you have adrenal fatigue. Stimulants effect mostly dopamine, right? Why is that so bad for you with AF? I would think that the noradrenergics would be the ones that would tax your adrenal system????? What am I missing or not getting here?
- Confused in LA
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