Anyone else feel terrible from adrenaline/ stress?

Symptoms Physical
#1

A few things that make me feel really bad that shouldn’t:

  • Listening to loud music and enjoying it, getting adrenaline or whatever it is pumping. Afterwards i feel bad.
  • I don’t play games very often but occasionally i like the odd game on FIFA with a friend - i get really into it and after feel terrible sometimes. Maybe because of the adnrenaline?

The very worst is during threatening behavior. For example i have been close to getting into fights when i am out about twice in the last year, as you know that shit inevitably happens sometimes. After even a slight bit of tension it’s like my body crashes. I have never liked fighting but usually stuff like that made me angry and riled up. Now i feel like a woman; my whole body just starts crashing and i feel bad.

#2

Probably because you have high cortisol… which explains your sleep difficulties as well…

#3

Sounds exactly like adrenal fatigue/insufficiency.

#4

Yep, same here.

It only got better after i took xanax for some months, and then i felt more normal. But if i took another medication for example (after i stopped xanax), i would lose the benefits from it, it would stress my body again. For me it is like i said on another post, i try to reach a calm state with xanax, and then i avoid body stressors (for me) like heavy exercise, caffeine, medications, and white sugar. This way i am able to live almost normally until the next event makes me ‘crash’… But usually it takes a long time for this to happen, i only had to take xanax twice in six years so far.

#5

with xanax also ur sexual symptoms improved?

if yes is paradoxally, i ever known that was the opposite with benzodiazepin

#6

Libido gets better after some time while i am using it, but erections feel worse, half erections. Then, when i quit xanax, it is the opposite, erections come back to normal, but libido drops a bit. I try to compensate the drop in libido with mild exercise, then. I only take xanax for a few months and then quit. This time i am taking it for two months. I am going to quit next friday, i am already diminishing the dose. For me the big benefit is to come back to a calm state regarding sleep, stress resistance and peace. But as i said, i need to watch it closely, not to lose these benefits. Last time i lost it all because i took a medication for acid reflux. Then i had all crash symptoms again, penis shrinkage, insomnia, unrest, agressiviness, etc. So it is pretty much like living in a ‘bubble’, no medications, no caffeine, no hard exercise, restrict diet or i lose it all. But all in all i feel very lucky because i am able to live very close to normal in this state, and i feel like my old self when i am like this. I already wrote this on another post, i see this disease as a chronic disease, you re either on a crisis state (penis shrinkage, unrest, insomnia, etc) or plateau (you re free from these symptoms, feel much better, but not cured, it is a state you reach and need to care not to lose it).