I've been taking the Adrenal supplements for over 6 months now and still having problems with feeling lightheaded, and that half-dizzy disconnected feeling in my head. After my yearly physical with Dr. Tipton in January, he thought I should see an endocrinologist, so I made the appointment. It took a couple of months to get in to see her, but I had my visit finally on Tuesday. I had been very prayerful and hopeful that she would be able to help me. I was more than disappointed in my visit with her. I felt like she wasn't really listening to me and she never really gave me a chance to talk much. When I told her what my naturopathic doctor said, she said she would not acknowledge anything he said because she didn't feel he was a "real" doctor. I took my adrenal supplements to show her and she did not like me taking the Adrenal Rebuilder. She said the other vitamins were okay, but wanted me to get off the Adrenal Rebuilder (the porcine glandular extracts). She kept saying, why would anyone want to take pig hormones when they could have the real thing. I wanted to explain that if she read the ingredients closer she would see that the hormones have been removed -- but she didn't give me the chance.
After I showed her my tilt-table test that stated I had vaso-depressor syncope, she said, "Well, you have a diagnosis here!" as if to say, "Why are you here then". She also wondered why they would give me a beta blocker and thought they should have given me Proamatine (which raises blood pressure) and I told her they didn't because sometimes my blood pressure is a little high -- it just drops a lot when I stand sometimes. I tried to explain that it's been more than just feeling dizzy and lightheaded and faint, but that I was having all these other symptoms. I gave her a list I typed up of all the symptoms I had been having, but I don't think she even gave it a second glance. I was getting so frustrated by all this, and after my high hopes, I started crying and then she said, "Well, it looks like you may have some depression too since you are crying." After she said that I started getting kind of upset. At any rate, she did order a bunch of tests for me to have done that I'll be having done next week. An MRI, MRA, and a Cortisol test among many other blood tests. So, I suppose I got what I was looking for as far as having some more in-depth tests done to determine a possible underlying cause of my symptoms, but was certainly left disenchanted with the doctor. Do they not teach people skills in medical school? They should!
Right now, I'm feeling confused. All of my symptoms seem to fit with the adrenal fatigue diagnosis, but everything I've been trying to do to help that from changing my diet, lifestyle, and taking all these supplements, hasn't helped much. I'm still on this rollercoaster where I feel okay some days, and pretty lousy others. The only thing I know for certain is that taking Threelac helps me feel a little better. I pretty much eat a candida-free diet, so I don't know why yeast problems keep popping up if I don't take it. So, until I have these tests done next week, I'm just going to keep taking a daily multivitamin, extra vitamin C, and my Threelac. I've also decided to try getting off the beta blocker I've been on (Toprol XL) by taking half a tablet a day for a few more days, then going off it entirely. I've been scared to do that, but I'm going to try. I hope any of you that have had similar problems with feeling faint, dizzy, lightheaded, disconnected, etc. have more success than I have in determining the cause and solution. I will post again after I get the test results next week.
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