I believe that I have figured out the source of all those health problems. Thank you to everyone who was praying for me! Especially my Sunshine girls Brittany and Jackie! Your prayers availed!
Here is a list of what my problems were:
frequent and chronic infections
joint/muscle pain, weakness and stiffness
hair loss
fatigue
I went to the doctor the other day to get things figured out. They prescribed me an anti-infective, but they didn't know why I was losing my hair. She asked me if I had been stressed out lately. I said no because I wasn't really. I'm out of school and don't have many demands on my life. Then I went home and remembered. I had the infections for a while, but the other symptoms didn't start until the middle of my last semester at MBI. The last semester was very stressful. And not only was there stress at school, but there was stress at home. So I was kind of bathing in stress for a while.
Now let's go back to my original condition: late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia (LOCAH). This condition is a disorder in my adrenal glands. My adrenal glands don't produce enough cortisol. Cortisol is also called the stress hormone. In someone normal, more of this hormone is released when the body is going through stress so that you can adapt/handle it properly.
This is when it hit me. I stopped taking steroids (which contains cortisol) because of the nasty side- effects. So I was going through all this stress with no physiological way to handle it all. My body wasn't producing enough cortisol for all of the stress I was going through so my body went haywire.
I googled my symptoms and found that the term for this is adrenal insufficiency which is not as sever as an adrenal crisis (which can be fatal), but can cause lowered immune system (frequent infections), fatigue, hair loss, and muscle/joint problems. Here is a link to an informative web site
http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/hormonal-disorders/adrenal-insufficiency-00160.html
Man was I relieved to figure this out. I've been taking some of my emergency steroids and my hair has stopped falling out. I may have to get back on steroids. I really don't want to do that so maybe there is a way that I can maintain myself on either a lower dose or just occasional doses when I am sick or stressed out.
Here is a list of what my problems were:
frequent and chronic infections
joint/muscle pain, weakness and stiffness
hair loss
fatigue
I went to the doctor the other day to get things figured out. They prescribed me an anti-infective, but they didn't know why I was losing my hair. She asked me if I had been stressed out lately. I said no because I wasn't really. I'm out of school and don't have many demands on my life. Then I went home and remembered. I had the infections for a while, but the other symptoms didn't start until the middle of my last semester at MBI. The last semester was very stressful. And not only was there stress at school, but there was stress at home. So I was kind of bathing in stress for a while.
Now let's go back to my original condition: late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia (LOCAH). This condition is a disorder in my adrenal glands. My adrenal glands don't produce enough cortisol. Cortisol is also called the stress hormone. In someone normal, more of this hormone is released when the body is going through stress so that you can adapt/handle it properly.
This is when it hit me. I stopped taking steroids (which contains cortisol) because of the nasty side- effects. So I was going through all this stress with no physiological way to handle it all. My body wasn't producing enough cortisol for all of the stress I was going through so my body went haywire.
I googled my symptoms and found that the term for this is adrenal insufficiency which is not as sever as an adrenal crisis (which can be fatal), but can cause lowered immune system (frequent infections), fatigue, hair loss, and muscle/joint problems. Here is a link to an informative web site
http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/hormonal-disorders/adrenal-insufficiency-00160.html
Man was I relieved to figure this out. I've been taking some of my emergency steroids and my hair has stopped falling out. I may have to get back on steroids. I really don't want to do that so maybe there is a way that I can maintain myself on either a lower dose or just occasional doses when I am sick or stressed out.
Oh man, I'm so glad you were able to figure that out! I hope you'll find a good way to balance stuff out when you're stressed. Feel free to escape to our apartment!
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