Adrenal problems and lyme disease?

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I've been dealing with Lyme since 2006. In Nov, 2009 I was also diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency. Been on cortef since. Cortisol levels have increased. Pituitary gland not responding. Those levels are low. Below 5. Currently taking 10mgs. Fatigue is huge but joint pain has spread to every joint. Fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles and toes. I just learned, with no help from my doctors, that there might be a connection between lyme and AI. I live in CT. 52 year old male. Up until the past few years, worked out 5 times a week. Now with all the pain lucky to do something twice a week. Heading to Mayo Clinic in Fla tomorrow. Hope they can provide hope. At this point, prayer is the only thing getting me through each day. Any advice? Thanks.

wow. i tried for 5 years to figure out what i had and kept going back to adrenal problems cause of pain in my back/flank. I was diagnosed with lyme but still wonder about adrenals. do you test low on cortisol in blood? Mine was always fine but never did a 6 hr test, only a morning fast. Best of luck to you.

Hi all,
Just poking my head in here, but I have adrenal fatigue & Lyme & co's and I am taking a homeopathic remedy for my adrenals, suggested by my Acupuncture doc. I have noticed quite a bit of improvement. The brand I take is NatraBio and it's simply called Adrenal Support. I usually get mine thorugh my acu doc, but I have also bought it from my itty-bitty health food store for only $10 for a box of 60. I was told to take 3 tabs a day.

Hope this helps someone...

Hi Simela,
That's what happened with me, I didn't believe I was getting the results like I believed I should have been getting, so I checked into the possibility of adrenal fatigue and it seemed as that was my problem.

From my reading I believed that there wasn't any really reliable testing available for the adrenals, but someone else here (already forgot who though) posted that there is. Anyway, I went to my acu doc & asked her to 'look into it' - they do any of the kinds of testing we are used to from Western Medicine.

She told me that my adrenals were in really poor shape & had me start on the Homeo treatment. I wouldn't suggest taking it to "see if it helps", have a qualified practitioner help you to determine if you need it. On the other hand, if you are in a position similar to what I am in - where I have to do a lot of reading on trusted sites because it's up to you to tell your doc what you suspect is going on just so that you can get "it" tested and/or get medicine for it - then do you reading carefully.

It is a good medicine for me and it has helped me quite a bit, but I still have a very long way to go as well.

Here is one of the links I used to determine that my adrenal function was too low to not get treatment;

thyroid.about.com/cs/endocrinology/a/adrenalfatigue.htm

kd120,

Please let us know how your experience with the Mayo Clinic in Florida went.
Do you have lyme disease, in addition to your adrenal insufficiency?

Is anyone on this thread still on this forum? If you are I'd greatly appreciate you private messaging me LLMDs that are endocrinologists. Also I'd like to really ask you questions regarding muscle and connective tissue loss due to using steroids.

I'm losing muscle and connective tissue, but at a very rapid rate. I understand steroids make you lose muscle, tendons, and connective tissue. But this is like every week it seems at times. I just keep losing and the only correlation is starting steroids.