Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'

Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired' by mgarfias on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:24AM (#22118878)

I felt like this, thought for a long time it was work. It wasn’t.

Turns out I had a tumor on an adrenal gland, that was over producing aldosterone. That cascaded into a bunch of other weird health issues.

Don’t assume it’s work, get checked out. Connect the dots.

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Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired' by hummo56 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:24AM (#22125837)

How did you find that out?

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Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired' by mgarfias on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:26PM (#22130866)

I initially went in looking for help coping with stress from exwife+custody - its been a fucked up ride. ANyway, BP was high, so they started treating that. Then diagnosed as diabetic. I was sent to a clinical pharmacist to handle that, and he was looking over my bloodwork and saw the low potassium, and thought it might be an aldosterone issue. Aldosterone being a hormone that controls K/Na balance which controls BP.

Anyway, blood tests showed low K, high Na. Further testing showed aldosterone was out of whack. follow up testing confirmed it. CT scan found a tumor. Then a years worth of testing to be sure the thing wasn't a pheochromocytoma - it wasn't. Finally had it excised and have been getting better since.

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