Posted by Elroy on September 22, 2005, at 20:54:25
In reply to Re: Anxiety, Ocinaplon and clinical trials, posted by Tenifer on September 22, 2005, at 17:26:43
David,
Man, that is eerie... extremely so. Just like very abrupt, right?
Also, I have some friends over on a Cushings Support Board who continually inisist that I have to have Cushing's (as my initial UFC levels were so high), while my Endo believes quite firmly that it is simply (HA! "Simply"!!!) "hypercortisolism" that is probably Pseudo Cushing's.
The reason that I can believe that he might very well be correct is that I had the following:
1. Years of chronic daily work-related stress (to be conservative, let's say from late 1997 to early 2000 - this due to union leadership problems and a whistleblower scenario that ultimately led to a forced termination via disability retirement)
2. Continued chronic stress from 2000 to mid 2002 that primarily centered around an ongoing whistleblower lawsuit., that eventually led (along with some otherwise minor marital problems) to clinical anxiety - but of a mild nature from mid 2002 until mid 2004. (I personally believe that it was over this time period that the HPA Axis began breaking down and the cortisol started climbing steadily higher).
3. A family loss situation (June 2004) which led to immediately severe anxiety - and the subsequent physical symptoms which very quickly followed (Personally, I believe that this is when the HPA Axis went totally dysfunctional and cortisol levels skyrocketed).
So, while I will not discount the possibility of "regular" Cushing's (after all, I am going to NIH for 7 - 10 days for that adrenal gland tumor study), I also see where there's a classic set-up for a condition of Pseudo Cushing's based on anxiety-induced HPA Axis malfunctioning.
Anyway, my schedule is too jacked around to set up any kind of chat sessions (sometimes I'm online a couple hours a day, other times it's ten minutes - sometimes it's in the evening and other times it might be mid morning.
If you want, you can send a "Babblemail" at me and we can set up a separate private channel to compare notes and different therapies, etc. (BTW, am also using EMDR therapy and feel that it has done quite a bit to help with the psychological issues).
Elroy
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X> Elroy,
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> Man, as I was reading this post of yours I thought I was reading one of my own. Our situations are so similar, right down to when this all started (June 2004)...its eerie.
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> Listen, I don't know if you would be interested but if you'd like to chat online or over the phone sometime about this I would be more than happy to compare notes with you.
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> Like they say, nobody who hasn't walked in our shows can know what its like.
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> Feel free to drop me an email if you like. The cheapest means to chat would be via one of the online voice chat tools. I have Yahoo Messenger. Its free to download, free to use and even has an optional webcam feature all you need is a microphone. I'm surprised that the long distance phone companies are still in business.
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> Anyway, if this sounds good to you let me know. I'm in Philadelphia which is the Eastern time zone.
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> Take care and God bless,
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> David
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