So adrenal insufficiency means body does not make (sufficient, in my case) cortisol, which is a hormone you need to physiologically cope with stress, among other things, right

And from my experience, it doesn't matter if that stress is emotional (and if emotional, if it's something we'd normally call 'upsetting' or something we'd normally call ' ( Read more... )

It's a possibility anyway.  So the main mystery now is why, if my endogenous cortisol levels haven't really gone up, amd I doing better?  And why have I had low-cortisol effects on 40mg of exogenous cortisol, then later high-cortisol effects on 17.5mp of exogenous cortisol?

Before I thought the question was, why am I not doing better than I am.  ( Read more... )

They're not so good ( Read more... )

Go me :)
Of course this means I'm likely to be totally splat for the next week or so & will continue to be offline, so, er, haaai! I exist, just not very much.

falls over again*

I mentioned a bit ago that elsmi and I are moving to Edinburgh (yes, Scotland). Meant to do a real post about it, dropped that ball ( Read more... )

So I've been doing relatively well the last week or two, so! time to cut back on the cortisol pills. Down to 15mg of cortisol pills/day, as of today ( Read more... )

Saw the endocrinologist today and she's got me tapering the cortisol. As of today ( Read more... )

So asthma doc did some things right at our meeting thurs.

1) Talked to me instead of over me in 3rd person (though I am attributing this to the presence of a resident ( Read more... )

I guess I have another cold ( Read more... )