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So as the title says, I wake up with this condition every morning. It alleviates itself at around 1 or 2 pm. But comes back if I consume caffeine, exercise, drink. I go to bed with it fine and sometime around 5 am or so it all tightens up.
This all started from abusing diet/appetite suppression/exercise medications.
So I assumed adrenal fatigue, which was backed up by saliva tests. Which showed me only low in the morning. But basically a flat-line throughout. No rythm what so ever.
But after 1 or 2 would come out of my fog and feel fine. Except if I’d workout. Then symptoms would last even later in day.
So figured low morning cortisol was causing high norepinephrine.
So been on 15mg Cortef, 10mg am, 5mg noon for about a month with no relief.
Is this possibly more of neurotransmitter problem? Do I need to be dosing the HC all throughout the day to feel the effects and not just in the morning?
Anybody with any suggestions would be great.
Commonly scrotal tightening and penile shrinkage occurs in colder weather to help keep the testes warm by bringing them close to the body core, and to reduce loss of body heat by reducing peripheral circulation.
The question would be, if occurring in non-cold weather, is the person’s body temperature low. And if so, why? This may involved a gamut of problems including problems with the nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, metabolism and nutrition.
Cortisol can be an indirect indicator of problems in the rest of the system. Treatment with cortisol would then not address the core problems involved, and thus may not work. Cortisol treatment can also worsen a person’s condition since it may also lower production of the other adrenal hormones. This may cause the result to be a wash.
Thank you for the reply Dr. M.
I have had this condition for 3 years now, year round. So it isn’t just the cold weather.
My body temps are always fine, though I do have consistantly high rt3.
Generally, I would like to see a left arm-pit (axillary) temperature in an individual when examining them. This would help determine one’s metabolism. An axillary temperature would be more accurate for monitoring metabolism than an oral temperature.
Broda Barnes, MD in the 1970s determined that normal axillary temperature is between 97.8 to 98.2 degrees in fully healthy individuals. In the 1800s, Dr. Carl Wunderlich, determined from a population of 25,000 that the average axillary temperature is 98.6 degrees. A recent UCLA study found in about 150 healthy people, that the average axillary temperature is 98.2 degrees.
If a person has high Reverse T3, then thyroid hormone is being lost or wasted by the body. If there is not sufficient production of thyroid hormone, the person can become hypothyroid or suboptimal in thyroid signaling.
It is important to search for a cause for high reverse T3. For example, infectious causes are particularly important causes to look for.
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