i can help you with this because I have been from one end to the other. Number one thing if you adrenals are drain on top of your foor where the tongue of your shoe lies may be very tender, also the web between thumb annd pointer finger will be as well. if you are gaining fat in our mid section or having insomnia then cortisol levels are abnormal. If you are starting to loose strength in your lifts. Seasonal depression can mask adrenal problems as well so you may want to increae vitamin D to 1000-2000 ius a day. If you are on computer late at night this will lower melatonin levels at night and when this happens cortisol levels go up and you have insomnia. So factors to look at are envriomental, thermal, emotionals, phyiscal, chemical stresses. More so coming into winter time peoples thyroid tend to drop as well as depression tends to hit due to lack of sunlight and disturbs diurnal cortisol pattern. If face is puffy, appetite goes up, blood pressure, lose strength, start craving carbs, increased infections then you have slightly elevated levels, low leverls you feel fatiqued can not think straight, digestion is slow, constpated, and feel like being alone then you are at low phase.
Find an alternatove dr have them check
dhea, pregnolone levels, cortsiol total and free, tsh, free t-4, free t-4, reverse t-3, testosterone,
24 hour salvia test from great smokies can also give a better indication.
DO NOT FUCK WITH THIS...GET IT TAKEN CARE OF NOW. Because other wise it can and will shut your systems down one by one and it is not a pretty thing and drs do not recognise it untill it is a disase. They is not gray areas in drs eyes.