Posted by garnet71 on March 3, 2009, at 23:02:52
In reply to Re: thyroid and cortisol issues » garnet71, posted by mav27 on March 3, 2009, at 0:02:13
Mav, I know you can google too. These lists are about the same everywhere:
Low cortisol:
Addison's disease symptoms usually develop slowly, often over several months, and may include:
Muscle weakness and fatigue
Weight loss and decreased appetite
Darkening of your skin (hyperpigmentation)
Low blood pressure, even fainting
Salt craving
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
Nausea, diarrhea or vomiting
Muscle or joint pains
Irritability
Depressionhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/addisons-disease/DS00361
Excess cortisol:
Common Cushing's syndrome symptoms include:
Weight gain, particularly around your midsection and upper back
Fatigue
Muscle weakness
Rounding of your face (moon face)
Facial flushing
Fatty pad or hump between your shoulders (buffalo hump)
Pink or purple stretch marks (striae) on the skin of your abdomen, thighs, breasts and arms
Thin and fragile skin that bruises easily
Slow healing of cuts, insect bites and infections
Depression, anxiety and irritability
Loss of emotional control
Thicker or more visible body and facial hair (hirsutism)
Acne
Irregular or absent menstrual periods in females
Decreased libido
Erectile dysfunction in males
New or worsened high blood pressure
Glucose intolerance that may lead to diabetes
Headache
Bone loss, leading to fractures over timehttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cushings-syndrome/DS00470
I'm not saying I have Addison's, and have to get further tests, but I have a problem with doctors who say "that's rare", so they don't check into things. Can't tell you how many times I've heard that. When it's 'rare', I'm thinking 1 in 100,000 of the population. So how do these 1 in 100,000 get diagnosed? When they have symptoms of a full-blown disease--that's out of hand, not when they symptoms just appear. Naturally, they can't test everyone who has some of the symptoms, but when you go years and years of feeling like sh*t, it should be considered. I refuse to fall into the clinical abyss once again after falling through the cracks of psychiatric care all these years. Been there, done that. Never again. I want to make sure I'm being treated for the problems i really have--no more trial and error. For some, trial and error is the only way to go--but for me, no way.
I think there is a serious disconnect between the psychiatric and endocrine world, when the systems are too interrelated to be seperated like that. I wonder how many out there go through life with hormonal imbalances and don't know it? Or are prescribed antidepressants when they have a hormonal issue? I briefly asked my endo, who's young so up on the latest education, about the relation bet. anxiety, depression and/or the endocrine system from psych drugs--she said there are no issues from psych drugs that she knew of. But maybe they only read the journals in their own field, I have no clue.
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