Adrenal fatigue/exhaustion?

Oh, wow, this is me to a cow's thumb! Stressors galore!

Good stuff. Wish I'd had this info some time back...sounds a lot like Fibromyalgia symptoms, too. I wonder if there's a connection? Having been diagnosed with the Fibro, I kind of wonder if it's not in my best interests to have my adrenals tested. Something to look into. Thanks, Lady!

Ah, we both owe a debt to Lisa-in-Sweden for sharing what she is learning from MDs in her WAY-medically-advanced part of the world.

Lady Stardust has most recently reported reiki as a pain-reducing treatment for her achy body.

Hi Zer,

I'm not too happy with doctors right now. I had such a terrible reaction to my medication (for the bronchitis and possible asthma) and the doctor was quite nasty about it.

I did get a dx for Dercum's after three and half years, though. I wish I had someone who took an intrest in me and helping me obtain the best quality of life, plus keep an eye on possible problem areas like diabetes, too high sediment levels, and even too high homocysteine levels, but nope ... not such luck. Sorry ... just in a dumpy mood about doctors right now.

On a happier note, I am going for my second Reiki treatment on Monday morning and most of the benefits I felt from the first one I still feel like the pain free ankles and my shoulders having less pain, but the reduced tensions in the neck and shoulders disappeared a few weeks ago.

I am also taking the first level class weekend after next. I am so excited of what I will be able to do for myself and my family.

Have a great one,
Lisa

So glad you are pursuing Reiki. I too shall, as soon as I think I can handle lying on a shaky table (as I recall those massage tables being a thrilling challenge for a hefty person to manage getting aboard). Keep us posted on how your Reiki treatments affect pain signals. I do not understand how it's done, but I have had my own pain signals affected appreciably by a chiro mashing fiercely into my inner knee and thigh. Still have some pain, but not nearly as bad as before the treatment. Not Reiki, but it helps me until I can locate my own Reiki practitioner here.

Sorry about the failure of medical folk. They don't begin to comprehend what true healing is about. Not their fault. It's their training.

Scary stuff. Just called a friend - a sibling - to say I am letting go of the hope that we can reach a place of emotional availability that I have been hoping for so many years we would reach. It's just not going to happen. I'm 64. She is 61. We are pretty much who we can be.

So I am taking steps to let go, to say that I shall not be calling on her (probably a relief to her) and that I shall be looking for support from people who are emotionally available.

Sent her an apology for today's drama and a link explaining just how adrenal exhaustion is related to stress. I hope this will explain that I am really hopeful of mending my body and becoming a less needy person as I do what I need to do to reduce stress. Agh!

Do I feel relieved? Sort of. Also sad. A lot.

Hope dies hard.

I am encouraged to know that she has two healthy daughters who support her and who will always be at hand to help her when she needs help. I can let go. I can. I am. (sob)

Hugs Zer.

I sending you postive thoughts and hoping you get this easily and are better for your decision.

I had my treatment today and it was so great. I'll write it up later when I feel up to it. I feel like a limp noodle right now.

Catch ya later,
Lisa

Ah, yes, and I too must begin to hunt up a Reiki practitioner who might be able to help me lose some aches that stem from old baggage. Nice if I can resolve this hinky hip, get it to set free that tissue that got caught so badly in Aug.2006 and that is now probably being chewed to scar tissue as I do anything that puts weight on that joint. Agh!

I'd also like to find someone to help me address adrenal issues. Meanwhile, I'm on my own here to manage stress. Uh, we all know that stress is not an event, right, but how one reacts to events. I can de-stress myself by stepping back from the firing line, by accepting that Stuff Happens. It's not always (probably hardly ever) up to me how events happen or how they get resolved.

Let go... and let god. Handy 12step mantra.

Food for thought, from a writer who knows a lot about adrenal (dys)function and (dis)repair: Okay, add lavender oil to my list of essential items. Rose oil too. Yummy!

Guess what ... your adrenals are covered under your root chakra. Funny how things go hand in hand.

Where do you want me post about my latest Reiki treatment?

Let's do the Reiki stuff right here, shall we? As comments on ADRENAL RESTORATION as a way of coping with adrenal fatigue/exhaustion.

Reiki addresses chakras? Golly, what a lot for me to learn as I open myself to searching out a circle of people who are emotionally available and who want to know me, as I am.

I went for my Reiki session yesterday and was interesting as expected. Had less tingling and more intense, comforting warmth and I just soaked it in. She worked extra on my sinuses and lungs this time. My coughing had pretty much stopped before seeing her, but after the session my chest felt even lighter and relaxed. She spent some time on my arms and shoulders, too. I told her how much better they felt after she worked them last time and I showed her the mobility I had after the treatment. She worked her way down my body and just happened to touch my lower ribcage and lower abdomen. When her fingertips rested there, she asked me was was going on with my ribcage and first I told her nothing, because I couldn't feel anything, but it came to me that I have a little, pesky tumor there that just gives me fits sometimes when I am bending over at the waist or even getting everything hard in that hard and hurting way without doing anything. I know she couldn't physically feel it, because I would have flown up all the table because of the pain, so that impressed me a little. She felt something in my knees and legs, too, which is quite possible as I do have problems with them sometimes, but she was more concerned that to her I felt like hard, cold steel everywhere, especially my legs. It's so true too, because you bounce a quarter off of me everywhere but my bodacious tahtahs and lower tummy. I'm taunt. I started shivering during the session even though I wasn't cold and felt so weird, because I couldn't stop it. I just had to let it happen. She told me she thought that is was possibly something my body trying release, like the tension. When she got to my ankles, I was saying, "Ah!!!" I told her it was my favorite part. It was so warm and good. My ankles had not started hurting again since the last time, but it was still wonderful and today my feet are even pain free.

When I closed my eyes this time I had a light show again. Starting with green and flecks of purple going mostly over to purple and gold. She asked me how I was seeing the colors, were they pulsating or in tunnel vision. I told her last time it was a big mass of pulsating colors, but now it was tunnel vision with the edges being blurry and dark. She thought that was great. She said her experience has been that most people don't have the tunnel vision until they have become Reiki practioners and the colors I was seeing were highly spiritual of nature, which I already knew from reading. She is quite excited to see what happens over the weekend when I become a practioner. Me, too!

We talked about my goal of wanting to get better, helping myself and others. She herself has overcome Arthritic Psoarsis and thinks I can definitely improve the quality of life. I do, too, just from how I feel after having a session and soon I do them on myself in between. I not setting my heart on a cure ... I just want a better quality of life.

She is also taking a class on past life regression and told me that she needs people to practice on before she starts charging for it. She asked if she could practice on me and I'm like heck yes!

I went to bed after being home for an hour, because I felt tired and I started the shivering again and it would not stop. I went to sleep and slept for five hours. I only woke up because Mats woke me to eat dinner and see if I was living. I was so exhausted, but energized. Crazy, I know.

I told Mats yesterday that I just felt like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders and I felt so good mentally and better physically. It's like this constant pressure pressing down on me was lifted. I'm still feeling pretty good today. My shoulders are complaining, but I still have my mobility there and I'm looking at it a bit like a healing crisis.

Update from today:
I'm really thinking that my Reiki practioner got into deeper levels with me this time around. I'm on my third day of a healing crisis. I've experienced this with herbs and such and it's interesting that something like this can affect a person physically like this. It's all for the good, in with the good and out with the bad.

First day I had the shivers and slept long and hard during the day.

Second day, I got extremely achy in one of my big problem areas, my arms and shoulders. They throbbed, pulsated, and ached. Ouch. I used lots of heat on them, but it didn't stop. I still had mobility though.

Today my arms and shoulders are feeling pretty good. There is a sore point in my left shoulder, but I always can feel it, even on my best after Reiki treatment days. Instead, today I cannot stay out of the bathroom. I'm getting rid of something toxic.

My legs are viritually pain free, my feet and ankles are pain free and some of the hardness in my body seems to be lessening. I notice it most in the backs of my calves.

On top of all this, TOM struck yesterday. I was out on Monday for just a couple minutes, yesterday for 30 minutes and 40 minutes of walking today with hardly any coughing and just a few moments of chest tightness. Much better than last week.

Glorious report. What a wonderful experience this is. I'm eager to hear about regression too.

Thank you for sharing your Reiki with me.

I am too! I hope I can do it. lol I have had a reading where someone told me about past lives and some future things that have come to being, like I was going to have a daughter within 1½ years (even though my husband was sterile) and I was pg with my daughter within that time. Also she said I was going to be mentoring a very spiritual girl and later said she was my daughter. Alexandra has had a meeting of angels in her room right before Christmas and last week she was visited by her deceased relatives, Swedish and American each on their one side of the room speaking in their mother tongue, and one of her angels was there telling her not to be afraid.

I asked if she recognized anybody and she said to me that my little brother was there, my maternal grandparents, my dad and her paternal grandfather was there, plus all the others. I asked how they looked and she said they looked like they did before they passed away. I asked her what they were doing and she said they were talking about her and to her. Interesting, huh!

I've done nothing to get this started. She been seeing things and telling about them since she was two.

I just don't think I can see anything to compare with what I've been told. I guess I'm just afraid I'll draw a blank. I guess we'll see soon.

I hope I didn't hijack your blog entry.

Nope. Comments just sort of 'grow' as we go. I'm so glad you are open to Alexandra's youthful visions, that she can talk about what she sees - and I hope you are transcribing all for her. From what I've read, this ability is a window that may close as a child grows older and realizes that it is not 'normal' to see and hear such things. With support, we may allow a child to experience and to grow into a deeper experience of a world that exists on a different plane.

Adrenals surely will profit from knowing less stress about stuff on this plane - if we can be sure we are Not Alone.

I'm just now reading a bit about Edgar Cayce's use of castor oil packs to activate a body's defenses - lymph and T-11 cells and such - and am not sure if it belongs here at ADRENALS or if I should start a CASTOR OIL topic.

For now, it's about supporting my adrenals, so it's here.

See http://www.baar.com/castoroilinstruct.htm and
http://www.annieappleseedproject.org/castoroiluses.html
http://www.annieappleseedproject.org...roilpacks.html

Maybe I need a NATURAL HEALING topic? We'll see....

Not sure where this comment fits in, but figure it's about adrenal function, so here it is. I'm kind of surprised at how calm I feel on the eve of my 64th b'day. Apparently, I did the right thing in pruning some deadwood from my life - although I wept a lot at giving up the dream of family closeness. Hard to give up a dream. But I sure feel as if I have created space in my life for more viable relationships with people who WANT to spend time with me, know me just as I am, maybe cherish my friendship and support me in becoming more than I am. That's what I hope for now. I hope to build energy and strength and to strike out in a search for positive people, people whose energy can support my growth and who I can support with more enthusiasm than I felt as I sought common ground with people who seemed alien to me in some pretty basic ways. Core values really count for a lot, as people grow older and build common goals. I shall be on the lookout for people who share core values, as I look for friends and build a support system.

So, today is feeling pretty good. I'm stoked with protein - only 20g, but it will have to do until more WPP appears. Meanwhile, I have salmon on hand. That will fuel me today. I am thinking going meat and egg might not be amiss as I prepare for the arrival of my scales in a week or so. Who knows how many pounds I can drop before I must step up to see my true weight?

Not panicking. Just considering some alternatives. Life is full of such choices - and I am feeling COMPETENT just now to make good LC choices. Nice feeling. I like it.

I wonder at how many years I missed knowing this feeling in any aspect of my life except my craft, my career. No wonder I clutched that to my breast. No wonder I felt bereft without a work identity. So much joy in feeling COMPETENT. Nice that I can do it with a chug of WPP to nourish my cells with protein at day's beginning - and wonderful to think that living a truly LC life might be a way to preserve this feeling of COMPETENCE all day long. Chances are I shall find others who live with a sense of being COMPETENT. What a delightful prospect!

Had a chance recently to reply to a thread by a LCFriend asking "Can you unsay something that you said?" as she decided to give up a workfriend who had gone off on her and then said 'no hard feelings' and expects to still be tight friends.

It made me think of my own decision to give up on a relationship that seems doomed to be no more than a frustrating experience. This is what I wrote: As I am finding out, lots of the threads at LCFriends lead me to examine aspects of my life that are related to eating and overeating. Thanks to all who post at LCFriends and who engage in an exchange of ideas that clear the way for a healthier way of thinking and eating. Yay, us!

Note please, how my stats show improved LC activity in the past 3mos. Coincidence? I think not. More like a payoff for taking a stand that supports me, that shows I am my own Best Friend - at last. It's been a long time coming!
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Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/402.4/199
WOE: Atkins+ALGittleman
432.4(2/8); 426.2(3/8); 413.2(4/8) 402.4(5/8)
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