{Condition Report} “Are you looking after yourself?”

Today I’m linking up with katessaysstuff for Thankful Thursday. Remember the microwave meal advertisements, “Are you looking after yourself?”.  I hope my Dad doesn’t ask me soon, because if I said, “Yes, Dad, I’m looking after myself”, I would be lying.  When I first found out that it was Adrenal Fatigue that was making me [...]

{Condition Report} Another year older

Climbing "Wishful Thinking" at Camel's Hump, Mt Macedon

Happy Birthday to me!  How do I feel?  Well, the fatigue certainly makes me feel older!  I’m guilty of not looking after myself of late.  I’ve had a bad head cold and now chest infection for more than two weeks.  In part, the adrenal fatigue makes it harder to shake an illness.  I too have [...]

{Condition Report} I failed . . . big time.

I think it has been a week since I committed to absolute abstinence when it comes to coffee, wine and chocolate.  I say think, because it feels like a month.  I’ve been sick with a stupid cold/flu for nearly two weeks now. My head is pounding. Stuff this, I’m off to lie down for a [...]

{ Condition Report } Exercise – relief or torture?

Exercise or Torture?

Ugh, it’s another cold rainy day.  It was so warm last week and I got a sniff of Spring, a dash of hope that soon the sun would return to my life and hopefully with it my sanity.  But today, it’s back to being Winter again.  This week I was going to talk about my [...]

{ Condition Report } My diagnosis and treatment

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My Diagnosis So how did I know I had adrenal fatigue?  Well, I didn’t.  I thought I was depressed.  I thought I just had whacky hormones and a serious case of PMT for 3 weeks of the month!  Seriously though, it was getting bad and I started doing some research (again – turning to Google!). [...]