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Adrenaline spikes: Med detective needed, award given
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Apr 17 9:19am | Replies (210)Comment receiving replies
I joined this forum because I found your post while looking up possible adrenal problems. Our situation is quite similar. The only way to describe it is an adrenaline attack. And getting to sleep became impossible. My body gets this internal vibration, hot flashes, heart rate elevated, blood pressure suddenly all over the map and sometimes I get chest pains. I was having these episodes many times a day. Recently they have slowed thankfully. I wasn't sure how much more my body could take.
I have ended up in the ER multiple times and the only thing they found repeatedly is that my potassium keeps falling below normal levels. The first time it was so low they put me on IV potassium. And hypoglycemia even though I had eaten and orthostatic hypotension. None of which I have had issues with prior.
My GP says it's anxiety but I am not convinced. I started to think it might be hormonal and begged to see an endocrinologist. He reluctantly approved but he insisted this was all in my head. It's been frustrating. He put me on an antidepressant that I had a bad reaction to. It made my symptoms so much worse:(
Now I need 1mg of Ativan and one muscle relaxer just to get to sleep.
Edit: I did have an MRI done and they noted my pituitary glad was larger than it was on my previous MRI from 2015.
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Hi! I found an anxiety centre in London, Ontario that specializes in treating these horrible cortisol surges. It is anxietycentre.com. They call what we have hyperstimulation. They know how to completely cure it.
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@bumble81 I agree with you that my symptoms seem to be hormonal as well! But doctors seem to think middle aged women are depressed or anxious when their endocrine systems seem to be off! I’m 45, and 5 years ago I had my uterus and both ovaries removed due to endometriosis, and then about a year after that my thyroid stopped working properly, so I’m Synthroid now, as well as estrogen and progesterone. When the doses of either the thyroid or estrogen change, they affect these hot flash adrenaline rushes that always hit me at 3:30am like clockwork!
My body is telling me it is related to hormones, but I haven’t seen an endocrinologist (and from reading this thread, I’m not sure how much help they may be either). It’s frustrating to have mental health conflated with physical health! I don’t get it? I wonder if it is a lack of knowledge in the field? Or lack of focus on women’s health? It’s super irritating to have to search the web to get any kind of understanding of what is going on, though...