No superpowers, but still awesome

My doctor just changed my vitamins, so I might as well make my notes on hydrocortisone before those really kick in:

• I have more energy than I did before the treatment, but not nearly as much as during the first two weeks.
• Ditto for focus- better than before, but no longer at super human levels.  It's showing up in subtle things, like now I no longer read blogs and watch movies at the same time.
• Inflammation issues are better than before but still absurdly bad, which is okay, because while hydrocortisone is an anti-inflammatory, I'm not taking it for inflammation, and the dosage of cortisol need to treat my issues is prohibitively high.
• For the first weeks I gained muscle at a stupid high rate.  Since then it's plateaued quite a bit.  It's hard to tease out the possible overtraining, diet, and illness issues here.
• I am gaining flexibility at a much faster rate than previously.  Obviously the martial arts are helping here, but there's no way 3x/week martial arts is as good as when I was doing 6x/week yoga, so hydrocortisone gets some credit.
• The structural integration I was getting became vastly, vastly more effective.  I dropped from once a week to every other week and we're actively considering going to every three or four weeks.  We make a lot more progress each time.
• For a few months (starting before the hydrocortisone) I took melatonin, the chemical your body produces as it gets dark, to get to sleep.  I upped the dosage quite a bit when I first started the cortisol.  A few weeks ago I realized it wasn't helping and stopped taking it.  My doctor confirms that needing melatonin to get to sleep while suffering from adrenal fatigue, but finding it counterproductive after raising your levels of cortisol is a well known pattern.   So to review, taking a stimulant made me stop needing a sleep aid.  The human body is weird.
• Speaking of cortisol and sleep:  I'm allowed to up my dosage (up to double) when sick.  Double was too much, but I tried 40% more (the lowest easiest way to split the pills) and felt exactly the same during the day.  It wasn't till later I connected this with sleeping unbelievably poorly at night.   Melatonin did nothing to help  Lesson:  going from low -> normal does not produce the same effect as going from normal -> high.  Once I adjust to the new vitamins I'm going to experiment with lowering the dosage.  It's tricky because the vitamins affect how well I absorb and use the cortisol.
• I was back to needing a really long time to wake up, we'll see what happens now that I'm off the melatonin and not taking an excessive amount of hydrocortisone.
• For a while I was eating really well- mostly produce, no simple carbs at all, slowly introducing meat to my diet.  I could literally feel my body removing scar tissue, absorbing the nutrients, and building something better.  Then I got sick, started eating carbs, lost the rebuilding feeling and never really got back on track.
• There's a related issue where my hunger signals have changed I'm just flat out not eating enough.  I'm still working on that.
• My weight stayed ~constant for the first six weeks.  Then I stopped measuring.  Two months later I've gained 10 pounds, muscle/fat/bone distribution unknown.  If that continues forever it's probably bad, but I genuinely don't care at the moment.
• It's hard to measure these things scientifically, but my level of "cope" seems to have increased significantly.
• This isn't related to the cortisol, but I just got back from vacation and holy crap did my cats miss me..