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AI & Insomnia/ Headache Symptoms

Does anyone else get fatigued/ insomnia due to AI. For context I was feeling fine yesterday but I may have had a little bit less to eat than usual. That’s why I drank a glass of milk before bed and then slept. Flash forward to 1:30 I wake up am I have all the hypoglycemia symptoms shaking ect. I get up and ate some because that is what I felt like I needed. But it didn’t get better I felt chronically alert and needed to eat some more. I also have tinnitus and visual issues which I suspect is tied to cortisol but the ringing was insanely loud. It was like I couldn’t sleep even If I tried. Eventually I would get this jolt of fear and wake back up. This has happened before and I always feel like crap after. But always without fail whenever this happens I get this headache that feels kinda like a migraine and also my head feels difficult to keep straight. I am also hypothyroid and my endo decreased my dose due to being in lower ranges but this always happens to me along with jolting pain throughout my body. Does anyone else get these symptoms and what do you do to combat this?

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Low/High cortisol symptoms and control

So for context I am SAI and I was born with hypopituitarism that affects my adrenals and my thyroid. Since around the beginning of this year or a little before that I have had headaches on and off. In around march I went to my general doctor and she diagnosed migraine. But the headaches kept coming and they got worse. At that point my doctor looked at my numbers and said I have iron deficiency.
I took iron and my headaches got dramatically better ( before I had to be inactive out of breath after exercise ect) At the same time my endo reduced my Lebothyroxin after my levels showed low thyroid levels (hyperthyroidism) and I am sure I had some of those symptoms in march. The last 2 months have been crazy though. I always used to get irritated before my time of the month but this time they came with insane migraine headaches and a withdrawal so bad I couldn’t sleep. I used to be so on edge and panicky staying up most of the night ( getting a few hours if I was lucky) and then at some point on day 3 I burst emotionally more than is normal or rational. But then afterwards I felt my libido return amongst other things.
But what happened after makes no sense due to having only occurred in the past 2 months.
I had my time last week and even after it finished something was wrong. I was shaking a lot my ears were ringing really loud and I felt so emotionally wired. My blood sugar was also a bit high and I felt that eating food made it worse. I also feel this urge to have more at night when I couldn’t sleep because I was convinced I was in withdrawal. But this was abnormal. I was very wired, stressed ect. A few days ago I had an anxiety attack after taking only half of my dose (5 mg) and spilt everything to my parents. I usually take 15 mg split 10 and 5 but today I only took 5 and 5 and the crazy thing was that I started to feel better. There was a withdrawal but overall I felt a lot less anxious and emotionally unstable and had more energy for the first time in a while.
Then it happened today. I exercised for the first time in a few days and it didn’t feel that bad up until the end. I only took one in the morning even though I had success taking half (2.5 mg) before exercising. But today was the first day I began to feel a little low. The symptoms came and I felt like for sure I need my cortisone ( back pain, all sorts of weird nerve pain /stimulus) but today I had food and I weirdly felt better. I know SAI can produce some cortisol but I never felt it as much until today.
Anyways I am unsure because we went back to my endo for a follow up and she said my thyroid is still low and that is what caused this. Anyways I already reduced my dose but I still find myself having symptoms like an inability to keep my head straight. I feel like I do produce cortisol but not sure how much because either way I have side effects. Has anyone ever experienced something similar?

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u/Consistent_Reach7664 — 9 days ago