Hi, I’m looking to see if any women has a similar experience to mine, which is adrenal dysfunction that my doctor think was caused by fertility treatments.
In a nutshell : been diagnosed POI at 35, which led me to a little depression. Had to rush the décision of trying having kids as solomom, as I was single, because they told me I only had months if I ever wanted to be a mom.
Did all the fertility treatments (insémination + one round of IVF) in 2023 for a year-ish, without success. That was 2 and Half years ago. Right after it ended, I started having intense symptoms of perimenopause, it took 1 year before I could have HRT and get some relief. By then, I felt soooo exhausted, I have a demanding job in legal field and my brain fog was intense, couldn’t concentrate, always looking for my words, and just more and more lethargic while I’m usually full of energy. Was getting unable to manage my stress response and I was getting very irritable. I wasn’t able to be a high achiever anymore which was required by my job, I was barely functional and went on work leave for burn out.
The salivary cortisol test I did reveal I have very low cortisol in the morning and it drops even lower before noon. After that is a straight line. Seems to be why I have no energy. My doctors says it’s a physiological burn out and thinks this was probably caused by the intense stimulation from the fertility treatments while which left my body depleted and disregulated my thyroid-surrenals-ovaries axis.
Anyone with a similar story?