Could this be adrenal insufficiency?

[75458854]

Is it common to feel faint and like you're going to pass out and shaky with hypo, i have passed out from my parent arguing once and always feel like this when in moments of stress like that I feel like my adrenals are failing and I've got Addisons or something I keep thinking I'm dying but I dont know if it's common or if it is bad

Any help?

Edit: also I got up at 3am last night as I had to take a wee and after it I felt really nauseous and then my ears starting ringing and I couldn't hear my parents asking me if I was alright so they carried me to my bed and when I lied down I felt better, feel like it was blood pressure, sugar related?

Another 2 nights later and I've just been feeling weak so I've lied on me bed and been shaking for about half an hour until I've had some milk and now I'm fine, same thing happened this morning where I had a bacon egg butty after I was shaking and I was fine

Could this be addisons? Or diabetes or may be even just low blood sugar. The reason why im junping straight to addisons is i think ive got low blood sugar, i do have low blood pressure 90/60 and my heart rate has been down to 43 I've already done a cortisol test for regenerus just waiting for the results

[greygoose]

The only way you're going to find an answer to that problem is to get your cortisol and DHEA tested. It could be due to adrenal insufficiency, or it could be due to something else. What you need is a 24 hour saliva cortisol test, with DHEA.

[75458854 in reply to greygoose]

I have done I ordered a regenerus labs adrenal hormone saliva kit just waiting on the results now, they said it will be done on the 18th September

[greygoose in reply to 75458854]

Well, that's good.

[75458854 in reply to greygoose]

Yeah I'm not feeling too great though I dont know what to do in the time being

[75458854 in reply to greygoose]

Im getting tested for adrenal insufficiency now, my blood cortisol came back low too and about 5 people on an adrenal page on facebook said it looks like seconrary adrenal insufficiency

[greygoose in reply to 75458854]

I never trust facebook pages. Write a new post when you get the results.

[75458854 in reply to greygoose]

I have its on my recent post

[serenfach]

Have you ever had your iron tested? Anemia can give you symptoms like you describe.

[75458854 in reply to serenfach]

Yeah all my nutrients are fine I'm slowly starting to feel better now but I felt like I was dying, I could have just been anxious

[humanbean]

Be aware that doctors and endocrinologists will often ignore the results of an adrenal saliva test, even though it is a much better test than a single 9am blood test. Saliva testing gives you a very good idea of what your cortisol is doing at four times in the day. A 9am blood test tells you what your cortisol is at 9am only.

The other difference between blood and saliva testing is that they don't test exactly the same thing. Cortisol can be found in the body as just cortisol, or it can be found as cortisol and a transport protein combined which is how the body moves it around the blood stream.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans...

In saliva it is cortisol alone that is found and measured (referred to sometimes as unbound cortisol). In the blood a cortisol measurement will show the total of bound and unbound cortisol.

The body can only make immediate use of unbound cortisol. If it is attached to a transport protein the body has to separate it before the cortisol can be used. All sorts of things can go wrong with measuring bound and unbound cortisol together. It introduces another variable into testing that muddies the waters, so to speak. People can have the wrong amount of transport protein. The body may be unable to separate the transport proteins and cortisol as well as it should do when necessary.

So, by measuring unbound cortisol you bypass all the conflicting variables about binding proteins and everything associated with it.

Going back to saliva testing, some members of the forum have shown their results to doctors and even if the doctor has not taken them as gospel, in a few cases they have been taken seriously and further testing by the NHS has happened. Last year or earlier this year saliva testing got a member with very low saliva cortisol properly tested and she was eventually diagnosed with Addison's Disease, which can be deadly. But she is now being treated for it, which is great.