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Severe Adrenaline Spikes every morning - please help
Hello! I am absolutely desperate, so I decided to write on here, hoping anyone else has had a similar experience or has answers. For years, I have been struggling with what feels like intense spikes in adrenaline every morning. I have more severe and less severe months, but the more severe ones become so debilitating that I can’t function in life, and have become passively suicidal just to escape my physical experience. I’ve been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, but the weird part is that it feels so physical, it wakes me up from sleep, and no matter what I try to counter it (breathing, meditations, leaning into it, movement, medications, etc.), it persists until my body caps out on enduring the discomfort, and I fall into anxiety attacks and depression.
For some context, I have tried so many things. I have a history of EBV, HHV-6, SIBO, trauma, and PTSD. I’ve done tons of blood ozone and SOT for the first 3, and I’ve done/am still doing EMDR trauma therapy, regular therapy, ketamine infusions and lozenges, Neurofeedback, medications, I even exercise consistently, meditate, eat well, etc. I’ve been to an endocrinologist, who said tests looked good. I’ve gotten so much blood work over the years, and even my trauma therapist has said she hasn’t seen anything quite like this. She says it seems like my trauma is being processed and coming down, but that this physical experience will still spike and seem out of my control, making her concerned it’s a medical problem. I am desperate for help and answers. I don’t know how to fix this without knowing what’s wrong. Has anyone experienced or seen anything like this?
It wakes me up like clockwork at 7:30am, and even if I just lay there, I can feel it spike through my body, until it feels like my skin is burning sometimes, my stomach is dropping out, and I’m eventually squirming around in pain just hoping it goes away. I don’t know what else to do, please let me know if you’ve had or heard of anything like this, I will owe you my life.
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Lasting from morning till bedtime when I take a remeron. I have a helpful and caring doctor. There must be something that can quickly break the cycle so we can learn to live again. At 85 this is no way to celebrate aging. I will begin looking for an endocrinologist NOW !
This is a long thread already but I'll try adding a little. I've experienced a bit of this, probably a cortisol morning rush thing, wake up too early, can't go back to sleep, negative thoughts and some kind of unfocused panic.
I found there's a simple behavioral response - take the hint! Get out of bed even if it's still 5AM, go to the bathroom, walk around a bit, watch some awful 5AM tv, fall back asleep on the couch, or after 30 minutes or so, turn it off again and go back to bed for another hour, whatever your schedule allows. Seems to work.
Also avoid any late night snacks, try a little magnesium before bed.
(I was going to say some warm milk but that kind of cancels the no snack rule!)
There seems to be an increasing trend for people to have smaller dinner or even no dinner to help with general metabolism, too. Something else to try.
Actually saw a YouTube video just the other day that in the Middle Ages and earlier, back to Roman times, long before electricity, the standard sleeping cycle for most people was First Sleep and Second Sleep. The first one started soon after sundown, last about four hours, and then people would wake up for an hour, maybe stir the fire, check around the house, then after an hour or so go to bed again until dawn. It was the first sleep that was supposed to be most restful. FWIW
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1 ReactionMake an account to say the SAME thing. This has to be connected to post Covid dysautonomia that we all have. The last time I had this was closer to a Covid infection, and now it cropped up about 8 weeks after my latest one. I found relief with hydroxyzine 10mg at bedtime, steroids, IVIG, and focus on radical stress reduction (I had a huge amount).
@athenasfury and no it’s not an adrenal tumor or phro, it’s either the HPA axis coming back online with overbursts of cortisol perhaps or the opposite, it’s kicking the bucket and sputtering out.
@hopscotch I know this is an old post, but I am experiencing the exact same thing and wanted to see if you ever found out what was causing your spikes and how you are feeling now. I’m having to increase my beta blocker dose to deal with this. I do have POTS, but this is worse than it’s ever been. I am thinking it’s perimenopause in my case, and I’m hoping the progesterone cream I just got will start to help soon.
Hello I don't know how long it's been happening. I've definitely overlooked it and just tried box breathing. It helps keep me going but it still happens. I haven't been to the doctor for it because of lack of insurance. But weed seems to help.
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Hello I am the same and it's been going on for several years can't do a thing.
Do you work? I can't work and sometimes can't even get up out of bed. Exhausted all the time and not able to drive or do things I once did.
What is your day like? Do you work? I live alone and it's just awful so alone with it all day and used to be able to do anything and go anywhere now I just have to lay down to get relief. Had dozens of blood tests and saw endocrinology and they collected the urine sample and said it's fine and then didn't investigate any further , it cost lots of money as I paid privately for many things. Being in UK have got NHS but wait time is often a year or two depending on what it is so I've paid out thousands already. It's affecting my heart too and so I'm scared I will have heart attack soon. Heart rate is high all the time. Please share with me your daytime routine and if you work or live alone etc. Julie in UK xx
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