Yes, Dr. Lam states that this test can over stimulate your weakened adrenals and cause them to crash. This sounds like what happened in your case.

Was it an ACTH Cortical Stimulation Test?

That is the only test I know of for this. I had it done once about 10 years ago. What it does is send a message to the Pituitary gland to the adrenals to produce more hormones ( not just cortisone, but all the other hormones too) Interesting, ( I was in stage 1-2 of AF than) the test results came back normal, but most interestingly, I felt about 50% "better" for the next few days. Than gradually I slipped back into feeling ill again.

Apparantly, my adrenals were bad off, but not real bad yet. Because that ACTH injection, sort of was like the whip on a horse, getting it to go. It did for a while, than it was pooped again. I'm sure for a more severe AF patient, whipping a dead horse ( already chronic AF ) would make the problem even worse, as maybe it did in your case. I don't know. BUt, that was my experience.
Paulette

Hi Pitka, I had the same test done (ACTH) in the hospital where they drew multiple vials of blood. I also was put on 50 mg Hydrocortisone through iv every 6 hours. I stayed in the hospital 3 days. I got much worse after the test (going from stage 3C to almost 3D.) I am so sorry this happened to you and angry that doctors are so unknowledgeable that they keep doing this severe test that completely drains an adrenal fatigue patient... why don't they test cortisol levels instead. Like Ring said, doing this test is like beating a dead horse for the severe AF patient.