I'm hoping someone here will have more knowledge with this than I do. It took me a while but I got a cort stim test to see if my adrenals are causing my fatigue. I have an adrenal tumor that is around one of my adrenal glands. I've been having fatigue since an illness in 2008.
One of the symptoms of my fatigue is that if I stop moving and "rest" at all I start to fall asleep. I would sleep all day if I wasn't dragged out of bed each morning by my two year old and my hubby. While I was having the test i was hooked up to an iv. So I wasn't moving a lot. As they were stimulating my adrenals I actually started to fall asleep.
I would imagine that when your adrenals are stimulated with cortisol that you wouldn't be overcome with sleep but I was. My values are as follows: 11.2 at 9:20am, 16.7 at 9:40am, 19 at 10:10am. I also was the first patient the nurse had ever seen who got nauseas during the injection.
So I'm wondering. Is it possible that my body isn't responding to the cortisol? I mean the value went up but maybe some receptor somewhere isn't receiving it? I'm just trying to figure out why I would feel more tired to the point of being groggy and feeling like I was hitting rem type sleep. I'm hoping someone has been through this and might have some insight. Any thoughts would be appreciated...
Thank you!
Kelly
One of the symptoms of my fatigue is that if I stop moving and "rest" at all I start to fall asleep. I would sleep all day if I wasn't dragged out of bed each morning by my two year old and my hubby. While I was having the test i was hooked up to an iv. So I wasn't moving a lot. As they were stimulating my adrenals I actually started to fall asleep.
I would imagine that when your adrenals are stimulated with cortisol that you wouldn't be overcome with sleep but I was. My values are as follows: 11.2 at 9:20am, 16.7 at 9:40am, 19 at 10:10am. I also was the first patient the nurse had ever seen who got nauseas during the injection.
So I'm wondering. Is it possible that my body isn't responding to the cortisol? I mean the value went up but maybe some receptor somewhere isn't receiving it? I'm just trying to figure out why I would feel more tired to the point of being groggy and feeling like I was hitting rem type sleep. I'm hoping someone has been through this and might have some insight. Any thoughts would be appreciated...
Thank you!
Kelly