...let's just say this last taper is being hard, hm? & leave it at that. That way I won't bawl all over anyone over having yet. another. frickin. cold. on top of it.

But yeah, that's the reason for my continued absence. two steps forward, who even KNOWS how many back.

Hi! I am still (again) sick. Big surprise. But still not dead, lj evidence to the contrary.

1) Am in California, catching all the fun California bugs. *wet rag wave* Still no immune system.
2) The Bloodchildren anthology is out and looks fabulous! And I'm in the also-fabulous-looking We See A Different Frontier antho ( Read more... )

Doubling cortisol a second time, since I've had a week now of not getting better ( Read more... )

cold is v bad and so is asthma, need to give body a rest.

Thank you guys so much for comments, sorry for lack of response

So thanks to someone asking on tumblr, I went looking for the (English-version) poem that's on the picture, and I found:

February 25 2011: A scholarly essay about the political implications of the painting

March 4th 2011: Footnotes to stanza 1, without poem -- and a note that I was starting the medication tapering.

March 5 2011: Footnotes WITH ( Read more... )

I did mean to reply to everyone individually for the Divali post but

I got a cold
doubled cortisol accordingly
and got a migraine.

I don't know it's linked, but I suspect.  Still have to keep cortisol doubled though on account of cold.

Anyway no more bright screen for me.  Pick one!

- thank you :)
- Yay for things being better for you!
or
- UGH I feel that ( Read more... )

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... )

Been thinking about how my health issues played into my screwing up, and what I can do about that, because one big issue is that I should not have been posting at all, and probably not reading either, while my brain was as fuzzy as it's been these last days ( Read more... )