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
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> Hi,
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> I was wondering if you could supply a little background information on how you approached an endocrinologist to examine your psych conditions?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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