Last week my boss walked me down to one of the MD offices and said make an appointment. Apparently my hospital is finally getting an ENDO
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Well to started I stopped getting my period when I was about 17, I wasn't sexually active so I knew I wasn't pregnant. Every month I would go to the doctors and they say oh its normal for girls to not be regular when I had been ever since I started my period.
So they put me on birth control pills. Well that got my month friend back but made me feel like I was become depressed. So I took myself off it and the doctors did more labs and a Abd. Ultrasounds which showed I had ovarian cysts. The labs also showed that my insulin was slightly high (which is also the first signs of diabetes which is very high in my family)
Oh and the other signs is I have dark hair growth all over my body. which is a symptom of PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome)
Well two years ago I finished nursing school and decided to move to Orlando. I started working at one of the hospital, and one of the doctors came up to me and started feeling my neck saying I needed to get my thyroid check. Well I rushed to the doctors to get some labs done and the doctor was right. My tsh was 23 normal is 1-4.
It explained why I was gaining so much weight and so overly tired. I could sleep 15 hours straight.
after a few months I noticed that my heart rate was in the 150s which is too high so when I was at work and having palpations A friend came and did an EKG on me that was abnormal and I was admitted into the hospital. But since everything other then the EKG was abnormal they sent me home on some more meds.
Everyone was saying it was happening because of my thyroid, but all the test were coming back normal. The only thing was that all my hormone levels were still out of whack, specially my insulin level kept going up.
We finally got an Endo at the hospital and my boss made me go see him and he is the one who figured out that I have CAH, most get diagnosed when they are born, basically you don't produce cortisol which is deadly. but the symptoms of CAH are very similar to PCOS that most doctors don't know you have CAH.
I haven't been on the medication long enough to see if it working yet. Im keeping my fingers crossed.
So they put me on birth control pills. Well that got my month friend back but made me feel like I was become depressed. So I took myself off it and the doctors did more labs and a Abd. Ultrasounds which showed I had ovarian cysts. The labs also showed that my insulin was slightly high (which is also the first signs of diabetes which is very high in my family)
Oh and the other signs is I have dark hair growth all over my body. which is a symptom of PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome)
Well two years ago I finished nursing school and decided to move to Orlando. I started working at one of the hospital, and one of the doctors came up to me and started feeling my neck saying I needed to get my thyroid check. Well I rushed to the doctors to get some labs done and the doctor was right. My tsh was 23 normal is 1-4.
It explained why I was gaining so much weight and so overly tired. I could sleep 15 hours straight.
after a few months I noticed that my heart rate was in the 150s which is too high so when I was at work and having palpations A friend came and did an EKG on me that was abnormal and I was admitted into the hospital. But since everything other then the EKG was abnormal they sent me home on some more meds.
Everyone was saying it was happening because of my thyroid, but all the test were coming back normal. The only thing was that all my hormone levels were still out of whack, specially my insulin level kept going up.
We finally got an Endo at the hospital and my boss made me go see him and he is the one who figured out that I have CAH, most get diagnosed when they are born, basically you don't produce cortisol which is deadly. but the symptoms of CAH are very similar to PCOS that most doctors don't know you have CAH.
I haven't been on the medication long enough to see if it working yet. Im keeping my fingers crossed.
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