What It Feels Like

You know how it feels the day after you've had the flu, when you're not sick anymore but you feel drained of life?  That's the tired-all-the-time that adrenal fatigue feels like.  It's just that it's every day.
Every muscle and joint aches and burns all the time, some times worse than others.  Being always cold makes me tense up, which aggravates the aches.
Headaches are frequent and vary in intensity, and under fluorescent light evolve into migraines.  Being always cold...aggravates.
Sinus pain and pressure are constant companions and are affected by atmospheric pressure.  Thus, if I come under any physical or emotional stress, or if I fail to drink a half gallon of water a day, or if I lose any sleep, or if I catch a cold, or if the barometer moves, I get a sinus infection.  With a sinus headache.  Which has the potential to evolve into brain searing, mind shearing, head splitting, ear piercing, suicide inducing, unimaginable, indescribable migraine pain.
My neck and throat always feel tender and swollen.  My eyes always burn.  My ears always ring.  My throat is always dry.  My face is always broken out.
I figured out in my early twenties that I was hypoglycemic and taught myself how to manage it as best I could.  I didn't learn till my late thirties that hypoglycemia is a symptom of adrenal fatigue.  Hypoglycemia causes tremors, heart palpitations, accelerated heart rate, sweating, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, occasionally loss of consciousness, and my personal favorite: headaches.
I'm hungry all the time.  Everything I eat makes me feel sick to my stomach.  If I don't eat because I don't want to feel sick, I go hypoglycemic.  I always have stomach cramps.  I never feel full without meat and dairy products, but meat is scarce on my budget and dairy products give me indigestion.  Then there are literal pains in the butt that go along with digestive troubles.
The girly cycle brings extra cramps, extra fatigue, extra chills, extra sweating, and hormone headaches.  If I know it's coming, I can clear my schedule to get through it more easily and maybe avoid a sinus infection.  Unfortunately irregular cycles are related to adrenal fatigue.
Were I not exhausted to begin with, I would be after all of that.