Sorry to hear of your trial! I escaped NYC just in time to crash on the coast where it is more conducive to recovery. Yes, people have recovered from this stage, but you'll have to take charge of your own recovery.

We all come to a similar place symptomatically but from different causes and triggers. Meanwhile applying other people's advice often doesn't work, or at least at your current stage.

All I can tell you gereally speaking is the most important thing that worked for me at an early stage (also with bad insomnia) was coffee enemas, which I resisted doing for a year.

What has gone further in healing and rebalancing is:

1. rest and eliminating stress

2. reducing inflammation every where I can find it.

3. detox detox detox (CEs + diatomaceous earth + electrolytes + probiotics)

4. a methylation program involving B12 + folate + cofactors--but other imbalances should be corrected first before attempting this.

Visit Phoenix Rising for more on these.

Taking lots of magnesium citrate or glycinate or malate is the safest thing you can do for your sleep and CNS now, unless you can identify a cause. But most causes involve elevated histamine, cortisol, glutamate et al which can be brought into balance by the above. Identifying and laying off foods that you are sensitive to mean time will help.

I would go very easy on high dose supplements at this stage as the can cause other imbalances. Low and slow.

Last, 23andme will give you an owner's manual for your body. Whatever shocks you have dealt to your system have probably caused genetic fractures along stress points (SNPs) and these can be specifically treated nutritionally without years of trial and error. (Check out Phoenix Rising.)

Good luck!

dr alan pressman and dr. leo galland are excellent

Dear domionp,
I was you 7 months ago. I had almost all of the same symptoms except the ammonia taste. Everything I did and used to try to get better only made me worse. I saw Adrenal Fatigue and hormone doctors. I used every supplement they suggested and followed every protocol. I was so very sick. Nothing worked even though all testing indicated stage 3 AD as well very very low hormone levels and very very low various vitamins. The doctors said I had "paradoxical " reactions to treatment. Quite by accident I was given azithromycin for a sore throat and I noticed my symptoms subsided. I knew right away I had Lyme. Before I spent any more money on testing and doctors I treated myself with banderol, samento, cryptolepis & soda acuta (starting 1 at a time). I s!Owly started getting better. For the first 2 months I was worse, which is normal for people with Lyme. Its called a herxheimer reaction. After the first 2 months I started getting better exponentially. At 6 months of using the above natural Lyme supplements I started working with a Lyme literate doctor. I have b.bergdorferi, babesia (this is worse than Lyme and the cause of the majority of my symptoms) and bartonella. Although I had been tested for Lyme many times before I found out there is no reliable test for Lyme or its coinfections. Lyme is a clinical diagnosis. My llmd also told me the leading cause of late stage AD is Lyme or a coinfection. Because you're symptoms and reactions to treatments are so much like mine I strongly suggest you take the above supplements. I'm happy to share any other information you may need. If it weren't for a lucky sore throat I would still be suffering. I can't explain how bad I was suffering and how sick I was. The worse thing about Lyme is it doesn't kill you. You just wish you were dead.

What test was used to confirm the adrenal fatigue? Do you have the results, including reference ranges?

Is the doctor going to do something about possible high iron?

Which hormones did you try?

What is the theory on the liver holding iron when there is inflammation?

Check out this.
http://www.wellnessresources.com/weight/articles/stunning_discoveries_regarding_iron_obesity_candida_thyroid/

Do you like magnesium, maybe in the glycinate or sulfate form (Epsom Salt)?

Do you have the thyroid test results, including reference ranges, that caused the doc to prescribe thyroid meds? Was that just synthroid--T4?

You might find this interesting on relationship btw thyroid and adrenals. Some think it is often wise to begin supporting adrenals before adding thyroid meds.
https://stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info/

Did you take any selenium along with the thyroid med?