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[tootsieroll]

Hi it’s my first time posting and really struggling at the moment.
I wake anytime between 4 and 5am for the day (I have had really broken sleep for years), my heart is racing and a terrible anxious feeling hits me within a few minutes. This has been going on for months now and I’m exhausted
What has been your experience and symptoms of early morning cortisol surges?
I do suffer from severe health anxiety and going through the worst bout I’ve ever had at the moment which is making everything feel overwhelming. I feel like I’m going mad

Wanted to add what helps me!! High doses of bio-identical progesterone orally.  I’m at about 900mg a day split up 3x through the day.  It’s sedating and takes away the anxiety once I leave the oil sublingually first.  Notice I said bio-identical.  Not a synthetic progestin.

[AKatieD]

Anxiety was an indicator of high cortisol for me (and low DHEA), so I take a DHEA supplement from iHerb which has reduced it

[Tulip256]

I have this at the moment and it turned out it was due to low iron, tsat 13%. I have been supplementing for a few days and have already seen some improvement.