Trying this again. I've wanted to document my road to healing for long time. If it ever helps one other person I would be so happy. I would have loved to know someone else in this world that shared my sufferings but I suppose that is part of the suffering.
It has been almost a year to the date of my adrenal crash. A year ago I awoke from a nap around dinner time and felt that something was very wrong! I had tingling down my legs and arms, visual changes, like I couldn't see everything, my head felt weird and extreme anxiety. Mike took me to the er and they decided it was just a panic attack.
Over the next few weeks I would have 2 more trips to the er and more and more panic attacks and the beginning of terrible nausea. My adrenals had crashed. By July 21st I was no longer able to care for the girls or myself and checked into the hospital mental health ward at Fairview Southdale. They put me on an antidepressant and vistaril at first, an old antihistamine that can help with anxiety, hoping to let me continue nursing. But I deteriorated more and got very sick one night, so they switched me to an antianxiety and I had to stop nursing the baby. I did not get any better in the 9 days at the hospital but they sent me home.
The next six months were living through hell. I paced the house, the neighborhood, tried to keep my food and meds down, panicked about the thought of food. The anxiety and nausea were unbearable. Only Jesus and Mary got me through somehow. I went to Dr's, GI, Endocrine, no one could find anything wrong with my labs. I sought alternative medicine who told me it was my adrenals but couldn't seem to help with the nausea or anxiety.
Finally in Dec. my old primary who I started to see again referred me to Karen Hurd,a nutritionist famous for her bean diet. She told me that in 18-24 months she would have me feeling better than I have my whole life. She had heard of my symptoms before and helped many others like me! It took months and months but by 5 months my nausea and anxiety were starting to recede. I'm now close to 7 months and just had a set back. I have to be very careful with any stress, but that, as we all know, can sometime be impossible.
A phone call from an angry roofing guy who damaged my roof and now had to pay for the repairs balled me out and I couldn't help but feel very sick after that phone call. And 24-48 hours later, I am sick. bleh, it has been about 2 months since I've been this sick so it is hard! I fear I will stay like this or it will get worse. But I have to remember how much better I am doing!! Praise God! My spiritual journey will be the next blog.
