Adrenal Crisis?

This is scary
Acute adrenal crisis

Symptoms of adrenal crisis can include any of the following [notated by me as symptoms I've had in an episode]:

• Abdominal pain

• Confusion or coma [Confusion Yes]

• Dehydration [yes]

• Dizziness or light-headedness [Yes]

• Fatigue [Yes]

• Flank pain

• Headache

• High fever

• Loss of appetite [Yes]

• Loss of consciousness [Nearly]

• Low blood pressure [Yes]

• Nausea [Yes]

• Profound weakness [Yes]

• Rapid heart rate [Yes]

• Rapid respiratory rate (see tachypnea) [panic tends to do that]

• Slow, sluggish movement [Yes]

• Unusual and excessive sweating on face or palms [Yes]

• Vomiting

I've had a half dozen of these episodes, about half of them had professional medical personnel called.  No medical professional recommended follow up testing.  (The ER recommended I see my doc, the doc pawned me off on the nurse practitioner, the nurse practitioner called it a migraine and ran no tests.)

Acute adrenal crisis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when there is not enough cortisol.

Life threatening?

Wonderbar...

Last episode was January 2014.  It was a bit more scary than average, I actually told the hubby to drive me to the hospital if I didn't recover by the time we were done with our errand...  I recovered faster than normal though, and was mostly able to move by the end of our 4 mile drive.  Five minutes later I was out of the truck and slowly helping unload.