Posted by bleauberry on December 22, 2007, at 19:55:29
In reply to Re: Things turn 'on' around 7:00...Adrenal Fatigue » bleauberry, posted by clipper40 on December 21, 2007, at 19:04:08
Clipper, the previous post was for you. Forgot to put your name on it.
A few other thoughts after I posted...
Salt...real important for adrenal fatigue. It is desirable to increase your intake of salt. Most especially an hour or so prior to the time of day you feel the worst sinking. It is common for people to take a 1/2 or 1 tsp of salt in water at that time. Getting electrolytes up is important. Use both regualar salt as well as the lite salt (electrolytes are potassium, sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate). Sodium and chloride from salt. Potassium and chloride from lite salt. Magnesium from any form you like. Basically, just take more salt.
On the alternative board there has been talk of the herb Vitex having motivational anti-anhdedonia qualities. I am about to try it. No mention of it in the underground though.
The single best supplements I've ever tried for symptoms like yours were: adrafinil; folate; SAMe. The folate and SAMe were on their own, while the adrafinil was in combo with prozac. Actually St Johns Wort worked real well too, though it lost its effect after a couple months. I did not know better at the time, but a popular strategy at sjwinfo.org (a st johns wort forum) is to do the illogical...reduce the dose to restore effectiveness.
Just some more ideas. One of the things I've mentioned is bound to help you feel better quickly. Cure takes longer. But you deserve to feel better fast so you can get on with daily life and healing.
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