Posted by Larry Hoover on March 26, 2005, at 14:09:04
In reply to RE: Segeline (Deprenyl) and phenyalanine » Larry Hoover, posted by Elroy on March 26, 2005, at 13:42:33
> Now a new PCP doc that I recently hooked up with has expressed some strong reservations about that adrenal gland tumor. He pointed out that being inside the gland that it is probably affecting the adrenaline secretion as that's where it occurs in the adrenal gland, in the medulla or inner layer. His suspicions - at this point - is that the adrenal gland tumor may have caused the severe anxiety and some of the physical symptoms and somewhere along the way the HPAT Axis obviously broke down and the lowered testosterone production and the the super high cortisol output was part of the body's reaction to that...
My own reaction to that information was similar....it was absurd to discount an adrenal lesion as the causative factor solely on the basis of a sample of blood tests. You had many *other* abnormal blood tests, and you have a lesion identified. There is no a priori reason to assume the lesion invokes stable hormone output. It may hypersecrete under certain conditions, though.
It's an axiom in medicine to think horses, not zebras, when you hear hoofbeats. However, in this case, you already know there's a zebra in the vicinity.
Lar
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