Charlotte Adrenal Fatigue Specialists at Integrity Wellness MD will take the time to understand your individual adrenal fatigue symptoms and challenges and customize a treatment plan for your specific situation.

Becoming a more widely recognized illness, Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome has recently appeared due to changing modern day lifestyles. Many people have been experiencing physiological or psychological stress for extended periods of time due to busy social obligations, overworking, not exercising, and poor dieting. The main trigger, stress, taxes the adrenal glands, which are organs that produce the hormones necessary for your body’s healthy functioning.

Gretchen Reis, M.D. is an expert in adrenal hormones in Charlotte and can help you to rise above the challenges that present themselves with Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome. Integrity Wellness MD’s comprehensive wellness program offers several safe, natural treatments to aid in regaining an optimal quality of life and improving your overall health and wellness levels.

Call (980) 701-9228 to speak with local Charlotte Adrenal Fatigue Specialists at Integrity Wellness MD and learn about how Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Treatments can help!

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Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome

Integrity Wellness MD can tailor a treatment plan for your specific needs as an individual, helping you conquer the health challenges and symptoms that manifest with adrenal fatigue syndrome. Some of the more common symptoms associated with Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome include:

These days we are meant to work, socialize, eat healthy, stay fit, maintain a positive and encouraging social media presence, take care of kids, cats, and plants, stretch every morning, journal every night, wake up at 4:30am and stay out with our friends until 10:30pm, meditate, answer calls (but not the ones from spambots), emails (but not the ones from spambots), and texts (watch out for spam!), travel the world, pay rent, the list goes on an on and if duolingo sends one more notification… well, you get it. That feeling you get after a week of hitting all the goals and then crashing, that’s burnout.

As hard as it can be to get to sleep with all of the stressors of the day going off like notifications in your brain, it can be just as difficult to get up. There are days when we just want to stay in bed, maybe catch up on sleep, maybe watch tv, and dreading the moment we have to get up to use the restroom…

Stress intolerance could be a life motto of “I don’t gladly suffer fools”, or it can be the gut wrenching, heart pounding, hair pulling sensations you experience when just one small thing goes wrong, even if it’s the first hitch in your day. All of the weeks and month’s stressors can build up and do some serious damage to your fortitude.

When you’re unable to find the strength or excitement necessary to enjoy the activities that once brought you peace and relief in your day, this can lead to a downward spiral. No longer having the drive or energy to get your workout in or even bother with a healthy diet can be a catastrophic symptom of adrenal fatigue.

Not quite as physically, emotionally, and mentally devastating as a burnout, fatigue can feel like the candle is lit at both ends and and you’re headed in the direction of that burnout. To wake up feeling tired, to be too sore to get to the gym, to be too mentally exhausted to engage at work, or even with people you enjoy, can all be signs of general fatigue.

Cravings are a great way for your body to communicate with you about the nutritional needs that may be unmet and with stress and adrenal fatigue, your body looks for a way to restore balance. So when we’re feeling that fatigue and brain fog, we might look to those pretzels and potato chips as our saving grace.

Unfortunately, too much salt can cause a variety of long term health issues and, while some sodium is necessary for healthy energy levels and kidney function, too much can cause water retention, high blood pressure, and all manner of unhappy side effects.

There’s nothing quite as distracting and frustrating as a good headache. It can start small and gain momentum, or hit you like a ton of bricks. When you’re experiencing adrenal fatigue and you already are tired and stressed, the pounding in your brain can feel like the cherry on top of a bad day.

Have you been unable to drift off peacefully? Do you find yourself counting upwards of 500 sheep before you give up and scroll through your social media? It seems counterintuitive that a syndrome that causes you to be tired so often can also prevent you from sleeping, but as frustrating as it is, the spike in stress levels actually do make it very difficult for you to fall asleep and stay asleep, perpetuating a vicious and destructive cycle.

It’s one thing to be a night owl, it’s another entirely to fall into bed, exhausted from a long day of living in the 21st century and are suddenly wide awake. If adrenal fatigue has your stress levels spiking when your head hits the pillow, you may suddenly find yourself needing to count burpees instead of sheep just to maybe squeeze in at least a couple hours of shut eye.

Stress and hormonal imbalance are well known to alter a woman’s monthly cycle, and it should come as no surprise that adrenal fatigue can wreak havoc on what should be a regularly scheduled event. Adrenal fatigue can cause your period to be light, delayed, or even skipped altogether, and while that may sound tempting, it can be really harmful.

Stress and adrenal fatigue can cause weight fluctuation, acne, bloating and insomnia among other things, but to top it all off and add to the frustration, the hormonal imbalances can actually cause your hair to thin. This isn’t just a “I’m so tired I could rip my hair out” situation either, this is a full on, my body doesn’t produce the hormones needed to continue to grow hair anymore. That’s about as stressed out as a person can get.

Brain fog can feel like a weight on your brain so heavy that it literally keeps you from thinking clearly. It can seem like a haze over your eyes, or a head full of cotton, and nobody can make healthy, rational decisions in such an altered state.

Bioidentical Hormone & Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome

The leading cause of adrenal fatigue syndrome is the lack of hormone availability in the adrenal glands and, for this reason, replenishing hormones with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy can help women to nourish their adrenal glands and reduce the effects of adrenal fatigue syndrome.  Deficiencies of hormones in the adrenal glands occur when stress eats away at existing hormones, but Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy can restore hormones to normal levels and help women to feel like themselves again. Some of the hormones involved in adrenal gland health that can be replenished with bioidentical hormones include:

Cortisol

When stress is in the mind and body, the adrenal glands are forced to secrete cortisol, which is the hormone that works to counteract the effects of stress. Over time, excessive amounts of cortisol floating around in a person’s body can cause it to eat away at important vitamins and minerals, which can lead to bone loss, thinning hair, and irregular periods in women. Excessive cortisol may also cause women to have reduced amounts of B and C Vitamins, and the adrenal glands may not be able to produce and adequate amount of estrogen and progesterone.

DHEA

DHEA is an adrenal hormone that is a building block for estrogen, which helps to maintain sex and reproductive functions, and testosterone, which contributes to energy, libido, and muscle strength. DHEA also works to reduce allergies, lower cholesterol, and triglycerides and supports the immune system. Women with high stress and adrenal fatigue syndrome may experience their bodies taking DHEA building materials and converting them to cortisol, leading to deficiencies in both DHEA and sex hormones.

Pregnenolone

Pregnenolone is another building block for estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. Women with Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome may have used up available cortisol and caused their bodies to transform the substances needed for pregnenolone into more cortisol. Pregnenolone works to regulate the nervous system and the brain, and women with lower levels of pregnenolone may feel more burned out and have less tolerance to stress. They may also suffer from more mental fogginess and depression because of reduced neurotransmitter effectiveness.

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Treatment Protocols

Oral Hormone Supplements:

Hormone therapy can help restore normal hormone function and health and restoring those primary functions can be as easy as taking a couple of extra supplements in your day. Oral Hormone Supplements can be in the form of pills, soft gel capsules, powders, and liquids and can be a wonderful and simple addition to your health and upkeep routines.

Transdermal Hormone Patches and Creams:

Skin is the largest organ of the human body and can absorb all manner of things it encounters, from cosmetics to the plastics from the bottles those cosmetics are stored in. Hormones can also be absorbed this way and, by placing them directly on the skin as a cream or on a worn patch, it allows those hormones to be absorbed directly into the systemic circulation system (the system that carries blood through your arteries, veins, and capillaries), which means less work for your liver. From there, it’s simply a matter of the hormones working through the system to give that healthy, natural boost and amplify your wellbeing!

Hormone Injections:

Receiving much needed hormone therapy can be as easy as a quick injection. These injections are most often administered to the upper thigh or buttocks at consistent increments, usually about once or twice a week.  Because of their quick metabolic absorption rate and frequency, they are most quickly and easily adjusted to make sure they are fitting the needs and balances of the individual.

Implanted Hormone Pellet Therapy:

The procedure for implanting hormone pellets is actually quite quick and very simple. After a local anesthesia is applied to the upper buttocks area, a small incision is made and a pellet the size of a grain of rice is inserted, then is covered with a small bandage. This procedure takes about 15 minutes and lasts for 3 to 4 months. While they are in your system, implanted pellets slowly release those helpful hormones in response to your natural stressors, keeping you steady and level for longer periods.

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Don’t let Adrenal Fatigue get you down!

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