Adrenal burnout may compromise your immune system and exacerbate allergies. It may leave you open to infections so you get sick more often and takes longer to heal.

Chronically high cortisol from adrenal burnout levels may cause anxiety.

Mild adrenal weakness is usually accompanied by normal to high blood pressure symptoms. As Adrenal fatigue and burnout advances, low blood pressure, at rest or related to posture becomes more prevalent.

Brain fog is a very common adrenal fatigue symptom. The most common time people experience it is in the afternoon, which matches up with the classic afternoon energy crash, as well as afternoon hypoglycemia.

Symptoms of insomnia like not being able to fall asleep or waking up in the middle of the night can be caused by adrenal fatigue.

Not getting enough sleep, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed for long periods of time can cause anyone to feel cynical. Cynicism is the detached attitude many people who suffer from burnout begin to feel – they often lose complete interest in their work.

About twenty-five percent of what’s considered clinical depression also involves low cortisol while about seventy-five percent of clinical depression also involves high cortisol. The adrenal glands have so much to do with proper immune function, proper blood sugar balance, and with brain function. There’s thousands of cortisol receptors in every part of the brain, and they work in conjunction with each other and neurotransmitters.

Exhaustion that is relentless is the primary symptom of adrenal fatigue. If you have true adrenal fatigue, you will typically have difficulty dragging yourself out of bed. You can’t get going without that first cup or two of coffee. You rely on sugary snacks and caffeine to get through the day, particularly in the late morning or afternoon.

You may experience adrenal fatigue when your adrenal glands cease to function properly.

Stress and adrenal function affect sleep, particularly the circadian pattern of cortisol secretion by the adrenal glands.

Chronic stress can lead to an imbalance in your adrenal glands and cause fatigue-related headaches.

Chronic fatigue can cause a lowered immune system and susceptibality to frequent sore throats.

Those with adrenal fatigue very often have chronic hyperventilation problems like shortness of breath, air hunger, etc. Sudden and strong emotions can elicit a “fight or flight” reaction in the body along with a flood of adrenaline and norepinephrine that raises the heart rate and causes heart palpitations.

Hypoglycemia commonly occurs during adrenal fatigue when low epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol are combined with the high insulin levels of stress. The low levels of adrenal hormones that can occur during adrenal fatigue may fail to raise blood glucose enough to meet the increased demand.

The lower levels of cortisol and adrenaline, combined with the disruption in the daily cortisol cycle, are what cause many of the symptoms of adrenal fatigue. The tiredness, inability to focus, disrupted sleep cycles and more can all be traced back to our levels of these stress hormones.