Posted by Elroy on March 28, 2005, at 17:27:25
In reply to RE: Segeline (Deprenyl) and phenyalanine » Elroy, posted by Larry Hoover on March 28, 2005, at 10:44:24
Sorry to hear about your elbow. As far as the wait, I'd say that's shocking but unfortunately it isn't. It's the norm.
Lar, I couldn't agree with you more. Right now I find myself actually praying that:
(A) the tests reveal that excess adrenaline (and/or whatever else) is being produced by - or caused by - this tumor (a tumor that is already known to exist),
(B) that the doctor involved recognizes the test results and agrees to the surgical removal option, and
(C) that the adrenal gland IS the cause of all of these problems that came on so abruptly - and immediately following the onslaught of this severe anxiety - and that the its removal not only relieves the anxiety problems, but also starts correcting these various physical ills.
Well, the process starts tomorrow. I go to the "Main Clinic" (major metropolitan hospital) tomorrow morning and have some more cortisol related testing procedures done and then also get a special blood test, a Metanephrin test, for determining catecholamine production. So I sit here actually hoping upon hope that my test comes back as being not just "positive" but highly positive, that this sucker is secreting catecholamines like crazy. I have a more detailed CT Scan scheduled at this same clinic (major metro hospital) on April 5th. I would actually love for the first news of my results to be a message telling me that it's absolutely necessary that the CT Scan be moved up as soon as possible!
Isn't that strange... that one would so desperately want a physical disorder to be identified even if it is something as serious as a tumor causing Cushings or a tumor causing something else such as Pheochromocytoma (back when it was still thought to be Cushing's, I desperately hoped that they'd find a pit or adrenal tumor that was causing the Cushing's... and was almost ecstatic when the adrenal gland tumor was then found, thinking, aha!, this is it... and then crushed when further tests indicated that it wasn't even Cushing's... high cortisol, yes, ultra high cortisol, yep, but not being caused by the adrenal gland tumor putting out too much ACTH which then caused excessive cortisol secretions)....
> > On one hand I really, really hope that's the case and that - like with Cushing's - a surgical intervention can remove the anxiety and these various physical symptoms. On the other hand, I'll be ticked that this could have potentially happened as far back as late September and would have saved me further months of additional pains and agony....
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> I hear you, loud and clear.
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> I broke my elbow Jan 11 2004, and I'm still waiting for a surgical *date*, a friggin booking, let alone the surgery itself. All the while, I'm in pain, 24/7.
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> I really hope somebody just decides that an adrenal tumour should just come out. End of speculation on its effect/non-effect on your cortisol status.
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> Lar
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