Psycho-Babble Medication | about biological treatments | Framed
This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | List of forums | Search | FAQ

Re: CORTISOL TESTS are in: Results - surprising... » JohnX2

Posted by jerrympls on January 29, 2003, at 20:01:00

In reply to Re: CORTISOL TESTS are in: Results - surprising....... » jerrympls, posted by JohnX2 on January 26, 2003, at 0:59:22

>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you could supply a little background information on how you approached an endocrinologist to examine your psych conditions?
>
> I would suspect that few endocrinoligists deal with psych conditions and would not be very approachable to collecting the kind of interesting data you are looking at.
>
> Thanks
>

Well, I told my regular pdoc about how methylprednisolone (s?) totally wiped out my depression (I was on it for asthma). He thought that my extreme (and positive) reaction to a corticosteroid could be a clue to my "treatment resistant" depression. So, he referred me to a collegue of his who is an endocrincologist and researcher at our med school. I don't know why more pdocs don't refer TR patients to endocrinologists because affter having my tests done - it uncovered a can of worms (low testosterone, low cortisol, low hemoglobin, low thyriod) none of which had been tested in the past - except for thyriod.

Good luck.


Share
Tweet  

Thread

 

Post a new follow-up

Your message only Include above post


[138236]

Notify the administrators

They will then review this post with the posting guidelines in mind.

To contact them about something other than this post, please use this form instead.

 

Start a new thread

 
Google
dr-bob.org www
Search options and examples
[amazon] for
in

This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | FAQ
Psycho-Babble Medication | Framed

poster:jerrympls thread:137379
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030125/msgs/138236.html