Quite a specific question, but this forum is full of supremely knowledgeable and friendly human beings so here goes
Does anyone have experience with low cortisol or Addison's disease?
I fully appreciate that is a broad question, but I am at the start of trying to function again following several years of struggles which now appear to be at least in part due to very low cortisol levels.
I have also had two really big crashes in the past 3 years with trauma to my torso, head and neck each time so there might be a head injury or trauma link to the problems.
I have read a lot and feel fairly clued up about general prognosis but what I would really like to know more about are extra things individuals who wish to be more than just "NHS-sit-at-a-desk-all-day" level of healthy
I am at the early stage with the endocrinologist but am struggling for information on things like supplements (mainly taken following long term mTBI issues- are they good or bad with this extra condition), diet (a lot of changes to help the mTBI are ironically things which work against cortisol production), possible relationship to head injury, maybe help pushing for certain investigations if the cycling crashes might have been a cause or contributor, other hormones or blood tests to look in to... basically anything anyone might have experienced or learnt more than the standard advice?
Interestingly one of the only references I can find to adrenal insufficiency and cycling is a guy in Sweden who actually started cycling to stay active. Even if you take nothing else from this thread, here is a beautifully shot video he produced which describes exactly my experiences, minus the coma, and might help raise awareness of this quite rare condition
P.S. feel to tell me that starting Corticosteroids will have me flying like Wiggins
I think David Millar previously said he saw more gains than on EPO 
