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Adrenal Fatigue - Where do I begin?

Are you lost and overwhelmed? Do you have so many questions
that you don't even know where to begin? That's the way I felt too.
Now that I am beginning to feel a bit more comfortable, I thought
I would share some tips for other "newbies" on how to start you
on your path to gain knowledge and support for a condition that
Often goes undiagnosed and untreated unless we become our own advocates
and sometimes our own doctors. The people on the forum all want
to help and be helped, BUT, you must do some of the work on your
own.

Step 1: Go to the Stop the Thyroid Madness site:

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com 

Specifically, you might like to go to this page which deals specifically
with adrenal issues:

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info

There is an overwhelming amount of information on this site. I would
recommend that you bookmark it and read it over and over and over.
There are links to other great sites with adrenal information, visit them
all, bookmark them all, and refer to them all over and over and over again.
What you don't understand the first or second time might become clear or
relevant the third time. I copy parts and put them in word documents on my
desk top so that I can refer to them and know where to find the info
quickly when I need it. If you do this, be sure to credit the source
in your document in case you want to share it later.

Step 2: You will want to get your saliva tested. Without the results of
a saliva test, you can't get very far on your road to recovery. If your
doctor is unwilling to do this, go to the Canary club and order your own:

http://www.canaryclub.org/

Step 3: While you are waiting for your results, go to Dr. Rind's site and
learn how to track your temperatures. This is an important tool that reflects
the heath of your adrenals. This is another site to bookmark and refer to over
over again. Explore all of his pages dealing with temperature. Sometimes it
is confusing when you go to the home page. Just type Temperature in the
Search box and all kinds of things come up that you will want to read.

http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp#intro

Once people start this, they have all kinds of questions on how to take
their temps. My advice: get a good digital thermometer, take your temp  
3 times a day. I take mine at 10, 1 and 4. It's easy to remember and consistant.
If you want to get nit picky, wait until you have a few days under your
belt and you have a feel for what you are doing. Don't get wiggy if you
are a little late with one, take it late if you have to and go back to
the schedule.

Step 4: Post your lab results and ask for feedback.