How long to recover from Adrenal Fatigue?

Question

Have you ever experienced Adrenal Fatigue? In May I was tested in zone 5. I eat very healthy now; no Cokes, no alcohol, no medicine.... but I still have insomnia most of the time. If you have had it before, how long did it take you to recover? I will not take any herbs or medication. I am doing it completely naturally.

Answer 1

If you mean you did the ASI 24-hour saliva test, Zone 5 is pretty serious.  http://www.chronicfatigue.org/ASI%205.ht...

Stopping unhealthy things is a first step, but I'm not sure what you mean by "doing it completely naturally...I will not take any herbs or medication."  At Zone 5 level, you will need to take active, positive steps as well as cutting out the negative stuff.  

"A clear distinction should be made between drugs and the those substances that the body needs to help sustain and regenerate the weakened organs of the body. These are essential for the patient's recovery. Even here, however, the CFS patient's body can be so weak in the beginning of the treatment that it will not even accept the nutritional support that it desperately needs. In this case we must depend on the passive treatment ...and other external therapies at our disposal to build the body's vitality sufficiently so that it will be able to accept the needed remedies so essential to its complete recovery."  http://www.chronicfatigue.org/FAQ.html

This page has an extensive description of the problem and a natural approach to managing it:  http://www.chronicfatigue.org/Basic%20Qu...

Your blood pressure can be used to monitor your progress:

http://www.chronicfatigue.org/DX.html

If you've been fortunate enough to progress up to zone 1,2 or 3, you might experience insomnia and this page explains why: http://www.chronicfatigue.org/Life%20Mas...

"Natural remedies to repair the organic changes," "passive therapies to regenerate the adrenal glands not just attempt to palliate symptoms or whip the already weaken glands and neurological structures into temporary action," and mastering your lifestyle so you can "live efficiently and productively while regenerating" is the approach this site takes.

No hurries:  if you are one of us with susceptible adrenal glands, it's like being a dry-alcoholic.  You will not "recover" to the point you can go back to running yourself in overdrive with Cokes and alcohol and medicine.  You can and must learn a new way of managing your life if you are to have one.

I was a single mom with multiple jobs until I could barely feed myself.  I didn't get good information or help. In fact, the medical profession failed me repeatedly.  I'm still recovering.  I wish I'd found this site a long time ago.  

I put in so many links because some of them are hard to get to from the main page.  If you have trouble, I googled "site:www.chronicfatigue.org adrenal fatigue.org" and got 16 links, many of which are the only ways to get to various pages on the site.

Take good care.