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Relative of mine was found to have “something” wrong with her adrenal glands nearly two years ago while in ICU for respiratory disease. It was not cancer, and doctors never mentioned anything further to us.
Because of her COPD, atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure and CHF, she suffers tremendously from respiratory problems and mainly the increase carbon dioxide problem which comes with COPD. It is the high acidity (low PH) which I blame for her smelly, thick, dark urine which can be in any form I just mentioned or only one of those but the color of gasoline mixed w/ water, or lately appearing to be potato flaky-like.
From experience of seeing doctors ignore many things in many of her hospitalizations and subsequent treatments, I’ve come to believe her kidneys may not be functioning as well as they should.
What would our main concern w/ the adrenal glands here be?
By the way, just remembered that they (adrenal) produce cortisone(?) or similar, which serve to protected against inflamation. Am I right?
Wouldn’t treatment of her adrenal glands help with her lung inflamation and thus her breathing improvement?
JenS, I loved your complete and thorough answer!!! Wanted to extend question, but apparently I’d done so before. Wanted many others to read about such important gland and some of the problems with it.
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Adrenals control many things.
The help regulate sodium and potassium (May impact blood pressure)
They produce DHEA which in turn becomes estrogen and testosterone.
Cortisol regulates many things – which like you said, in correct amounts, it would reduce inflammation, but in the wrong amount, um, it increases it. I had a tumor that increased my cortisol and had too much – thus it wrecked my immune system, etc ,etc.
Too much is as bad as too little…
But with the information given, high blood pressure is a definite adrenal issue (and can be kidney driven by renin and aldosterone), but as far as the color of urine, that is purely a kidney function as far as I know.