Re: Gatorade was Re: What can I expect from exercise? - to Panacea
From: Anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 7 May 2002 18:55:50 -0500 (CDT)
Pancacea,
There are effective lab tests for adrenal insufficiency those should be
done before any treatment and medication should really be done under the
supervision of a doctor. I hope that is what you are doing.
I just don't think it's responsible to write about adrenal fatigue as if
it were the same as thyroid disease (accepted by the medical community
as a whole). I have never seen anything about it when I've searched
medscape.com or medline.com --that's why I have doubts about it. I
question almost everything regarding when it comes to health (having
learned the hard way).
I've been the victim of quacky doctors and I hate to see situation where
people who have made their own choices (their right) then enlist others
in believing/ pursuing such a diagnosis or treatment or talk about at as
if it were a widely recognized disease when it's not. If it makes you
feel better, great. I just hope that it keeps making you feel better
and you don't have troubles down the road.
Anne
PS
There was a great program on Talk of the Nation Science Friday last week
on "alternative" and "conventional" medicine it's available on their
archive at http://www.npr.org/
At Tue, 7 May 2002, Panacea wrote:
>
>At Tue, 7 May 2002, Anne wrote:
>>
>>I find the whole "adrenal fatigue" theory to be highly questionable.
>
>Well when you meet all the signs/symptoms, have low cortisol readings,
>and improve your life drastically by adding supplementation, there's
>really no question about it.
>
>The only reason you'd find it questionable is if it didn't jive with
>your body at all, in which case your system is probably running pretty
>well and would only feel worse from supplementation. In which case,
>congratulations - you're more normal than I am. :)
>
>>When you have IR stress/cortisol will make it worse, treating "adrenal
>>fatigue" through things that stimulate cortisol seems very unwise to me.
>
>Unless it makes you feel 100% better, able to keep awake, better able to
>deal with stress.... cortisol isn't *stress* it is how your body
>*copes* with stress.
>
>>And isn't one of the treatments DHEA which women with pcos have tend to
>>have too much of?
>
>That is only a treatment if you are low in DHEA. Other treatments
>include cortef, hydrocortisone, prednisode (although it's frowned on, it
>has helped some people). I myself benefit a little from some
>hydrocortisone cream on days I know there's going to be a lot of stress.
>It's helped me keep sharp instead of falling into a brain fog apathetic
>coma, which I tend to do when my reserves are quite low.
>
>>My opinion, for what it's worth, is that it's quackery --- dangerous
>>quackery for women with pcos/ir. But everyone's got to make their own
>>choices.
>
>It's not quackery. It's a science like anything else. It's only
>"quackery" if you're misdiagnosed and therefore feel the worse for an
>unneeded, unncecessary treatment.
>
>Remember please that we are all different people and these things may
>indeed help and benefit some of us. Because of that, I feel it
>necessary to share and educate when I can so that people who may be
>suffering can find some relief.
>
>--
>Panacea
>
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