Frustrating problem, can anyone help?

Hi all

Still no luck. I went to see an endocrinologist and he was sceptical to say the least that my problem would be an endocrine system issue. He did some blood tests (cotrisol, testosterone, human growth hormone) but they all came back normal.

So basically I'm back to square one. By the way I also have a relatively similar reaction to alcohol - I'll feel sleepy after a few drinks and fall asleep easily, then wake up really early in the morning (say 4am) with my heart beating faster than usual. I then won't be able to get back to sleep and I'll feel really sluggish during the day. Not sure if that's related or not but it could be.

Anyone have any ideas? Happy Christmas all!

Thanks for reading
 
I know this was asked before, but not really answered. What is your current diet like in detail? What are your stats in detail?

Proper hormone function is a hard thing to test in the first place, getting accurate results if have a small imbalance is hard. To me everything screams diet and your endocrine system reacts, but for the short term, hince it would not show up in blood tests or read as abnormal in anything.

So list up your diet and those things in detail.
 
Thanks for your reply.

Well, funnily enough I was reading a post earlier today about having low blood sugar levels and how it can wake you up in the early morning after a few drinks: . I hadn't heard about anything like that before, so maybe my problem could be diet-related in some way.

The thing is though, I'd say my diet is pretty good. I eat plenty of fruit (in fact for breakfast I have a fruit smoothie), for lunches I generally have a chicken wrap or similar with some nuts and a yoghurt. I tend to cut down on carbs during the evenings but not excessively (eg I'll have fish and veg with a relatively small portion of rice). I always drink something like a milky hot chocolate soon after training, followed by a proper meal of pasta and tuna or the like. I'm about 11 stone and 5'9". I always drink plenty of water. I've always stayed away from most fizzy drinks, even, as well as most sugary foods eg cakes, chocolate.

It almost seems like my body's ability to cope with 'stressful' exercise situations is getting worse. My doctor's pretty good and like I mentioned, sent me off to see an endocrinologist, but he basically took one look at me and saw I looked relatively healthy, and said 'there's no way you've got a serious endocrine problem'. He gave me some standard tests which didn't show up anything untoward, I asked his secretary if I could have any more tests done and she said he'd recomended that I don't bother as I clearly don't have any kind of endorine problem. I was also tested for diabetes a while ago, though both these tests were taken on a normal day, they weren't taken following a bout of exercise, or after a night out with a few drinks for company.

All rather frustrating, especially because I love doing weights!

Not sure what else you mean re diet Leigh, if I don't answer your Q here could you be more specific?

Thanks for any help...
 
Well your diet can be clean but still not be right, there is a difference. My concern and being that you are pretty on the lean side, would be are you getting enough calories, good fats and proteins and from the looks of things I would wager no on all sides.

If weight training while in a deficit, you can get pretty tired and cranky especially if lacking good protein for repair and in general a balanced diet for keep stable insulin levels. Doesn't mean you have a non functioning endocrine system, could just mean you are barely scrapping by with your eating in general and then you throw in rigours training and there isn't enough fuel and good fuel to go around to do the job it needs.

If you have at all any sort of stressful job (mentally or physically) and add not sleeping well on top of that then I would say you found your winner.

If you have specific calorie intake numbers mixed with a general lay out of your day and then what routine you do it would lead to a better answer. For now my money is on...

Upping your calories
Upping your good fats
Upping your protein
 
Ok so carefull rule out any endocrine problem.

Your diets in check as you say, i doubt the least that this is any significant to your problem.

Have you ever considered something like IBS irritable bowel syndrome. The symptoms usually sprout out after something stressfull which resistance training could explain.

Latate intolerant?

Something to do with your symp or para nerve activity

:p
 
Thanks very much for the advice but I do doubt that it's a dietary issue. I'll try upping my intake of the good stuff and hope for the best, but actually this seems to make some form of sense to me: 'Something to do with your symp or para nerve activity'.

I have no idea what sort of thing I can do about that, though, are there any tests that could be done? Doctors don't seem to be too interested in helping out if it's not a life-threatening condition in my experience! Well that's what it feels like to me, anyway.

By the way my sleep is usually fine, it's just alcohol and heavy exercise that set off my problem.

cheers
 
Well what they should do is gather all your symptoms and not necessarily guess what it might be but knock off other things it could be that match your symptoms, ultimately leaving you with one explanation and pronto - your diagnosis.
 
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