Female with metabolic issues

[drtbear67]

Brothers and sisters I need some help.

I have a lady that has a host of health issues, but the two big ones are heart issues, she has a condition called tackacardia, her heart races and she had to take meds to keep it under control. This hurts her on cardio. The other is adrenal failure/fatigue. Her body works so hard against anything that she does, it is ridiculous. She is a beast in the gym and pushes hard day in and day out, but as her strength goes up, there is no change in her body comp that can be seen. Her weight is all over the place as she can hold fluid like the hoover dam.

I am at a loss as to what to do for her.


HELP!!!!

 

[drtbear67]

Help?

 

[JEFF!]

I'm by no means an expert but my thought is that the two problems are probably exacerbating each other. Tachycardia is probably burning up her adrenals which then makes her heart problems worse, to say nothing of whatever the medication is doing.

I don't know what her stress level is or how she deals with it, but if she's like most people it's high due to work, family, finances, lack of sleep etc. If that is the case, even if she needs/wants to lose weight I would think the exercise needs to be medium intensity at best and the focus on eliminating the stressors.

High intensity exercise is just going to continue to burn her out. And if she has body goals in mind and isn't reaching them that's just one more reason to get pissed off.

 

[Presser]

has she had her thyroid checked recently? I know some people who worked out and did mad cardio and no changes occurred until they found out they needed to use thyroid meds, both of them slimmed up almost overnight, and their energy levels went through the roof!

The one guy in particular, he didn't have health insurance bvut knew he had something seriously wrong but due to no health coverage he never got a good solid look over by any doctors, and he went to many doctors, and as soon as his health benefits kicked in he was able to find a doctor who actually gave a shit and found that his thyroid was all fucked up, they put him on t3 or t4 or something and he dramatically lost weight and gained energy!

We would crack on him and call him Narco Boy, cause we thought he had Narcolepsy , as he would Nod off in the middle of a conversation NO BULLSHIT!!! One time my mother-in-law was over and talking to him and he fell asleep sitting up on my couch while talking to her lol, I know my mother in law probably thought we were all on drugs or something lol,

anyhow, long story short, get her thyroid checked

 

[drtbear67]

She has had everything poked and prodded. She has to take meds to sleep, has to sleep with a Cpap machine. Was put on prednisone for two years as the Doc's said she had fybro. She gained over 100lbs while taking that, has had to go to a Neurologist because she cannot remember when her kids were little. He changed some of her meds and at least the memory is improving. Docs say she doesn't have anything wrong with her thyroid at this time. This lady cannot catch a break.

Her job is very stressful as she is over a 43 million dollar account and has up to 4000 employees at different times of the year.