There are some really knowledgeable guys on here so I thought I'd pick your brains.
I've delt with adrenal fatigue type symptoms for some time, at least a couple years. Hard to say when it started because (I'm fairly young) at the end of high school I was in and out of doctors and endo's for low test levels (in the 280's and I was symptomatic).
Come freshman year of college I had tried rounds of clomid therapy among other things to bring levels back up but they would never stay so at 19 I opted for self administered HRT after being refused by an endocrinologist solely because of my age.
When test levels were low I was very fatigued, sleeping 10+ hours a day, etc. HRT changed my life an enormous amount but honestly can't recall if there was any of that fatigue sticking around and how much.
I think a slight amount of fatigue came back and tried treating with things like DHEA.
Fast forward and I'm going to say it really got bad when I had mono a couple years ago which knocked me out for about 6 weeks. Been battling a lot of fatigue and CNS fatigue since.
I started taking pregenolone (50-75mg, high dose I know) probably 8 months ago which has made an enormous difference and took me from 10 cups of coffee a day and adderall putting me to sleep to 1-3 cups of coffee a day and adderall actually being effective as a mild stimulant.
I think a large part was due to cortisol imbalance since pregenolone improved how I felt by probably 50-60%.
I just recently added colloidal silver in case any of this still is mono related and was thinking about some higher dose d-ribose and beta glucan.
Any thoughts, experiences, or other recommendations?
TLDR:
Massive fatigue before HRT
HRT improved some
Symptoms have been stayed in some capacity over last 2-4 years
Might be related to mono about 2.5 years ago
Pregenolone improved significantly
Added colloidal silver this week
Considering beta glucan and d-ribose
Anything else?
I've delt with adrenal fatigue type symptoms for some time, at least a couple years. Hard to say when it started because (I'm fairly young) at the end of high school I was in and out of doctors and endo's for low test levels (in the 280's and I was symptomatic).
Come freshman year of college I had tried rounds of clomid therapy among other things to bring levels back up but they would never stay so at 19 I opted for self administered HRT after being refused by an endocrinologist solely because of my age.
When test levels were low I was very fatigued, sleeping 10+ hours a day, etc. HRT changed my life an enormous amount but honestly can't recall if there was any of that fatigue sticking around and how much.
I think a slight amount of fatigue came back and tried treating with things like DHEA.
Fast forward and I'm going to say it really got bad when I had mono a couple years ago which knocked me out for about 6 weeks. Been battling a lot of fatigue and CNS fatigue since.
I started taking pregenolone (50-75mg, high dose I know) probably 8 months ago which has made an enormous difference and took me from 10 cups of coffee a day and adderall putting me to sleep to 1-3 cups of coffee a day and adderall actually being effective as a mild stimulant.
I think a large part was due to cortisol imbalance since pregenolone improved how I felt by probably 50-60%.
I just recently added colloidal silver in case any of this still is mono related and was thinking about some higher dose d-ribose and beta glucan.
Any thoughts, experiences, or other recommendations?
TLDR:
Massive fatigue before HRT
HRT improved some
Symptoms have been stayed in some capacity over last 2-4 years
Might be related to mono about 2.5 years ago
Pregenolone improved significantly
Added colloidal silver this week
Considering beta glucan and d-ribose
Anything else?