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Re: horrible moods in morning?

Posted by bleauberry on January 20, 2010, at 19:01:40

In reply to horrible moods in morning?, posted by Roslynn on January 19, 2010, at 16:31:41

I think you would find a cortisol test very interesting. I would venture a bet that the curve of your 24 hour cortisol plotted on a graph would look exactly like your moods.

The test is available from some places online that give "home lab tests", or from Alternative MDs, Integrative MDs, or Naturopathic clinicians.

It involves taking a saliva sample in test tubes 4 times throughout a 24 hour period and sending them to the lab. The cortisol tests you would get from an Endo specialist are worthless...they only show your cortisol at that time of the test, or an average of a 24 hour period, or whether your cortisol is dead or alive, but nothing inbetween and no picture of how it fluctuates throughout the day and night.

Cortisol has a distinct curve in healthy people. It rises highest in the morning to meet the stresses of a new day, and gradually declines after that.

Mine was extremely off the charts high at 2am, then dropped to extreme below normal throughout the day, and then began to rise to just below normal in early evening.

My moods...
2am An adrenaline rush that woke me up in fear and anxiety.

Daytime...depressed, sluggish, lethargic, especially between 2pm and 4pm when the cortisol dipped its lowest.

Early evening...always felt the best of the day at this time, sometimes so good I did not want to go to bed because I knew it would be all over.

This pattern repeated daily for weeks, months, and years.

The pattern can be changed back to normal with some pharmaceutical and/or herbal help. Diet food choices also play a role.

Whenever I see daily fluctuating moods that tend to repeat day after day, I pretty much know cortisol is most likely the underlying culprit.

In my own theories and observations, I think SSRIs and atypical antipsychotics can actually create this syndrome when it didn't exist prior. Balanced approaches with equal attention to both serotonin and norepinephrine (as in SSRI+TCA, or Savella) prevent this syndrome and reverse it back to normal if it exists prior.


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