Posted by blueberry on February 3, 2006, at 5:21:10
In reply to Re: Metyrapone - Has anyone tried this? » blueberry, posted by SLS on February 2, 2006, at 7:48:39
Hi Scott,
Have you had cortisol and dhea levels checked? If not, check out idealhealth.com. This mailorder lab has a 4 sample saliva test that gives your results in numerical form and graph form and compares to normal ranges. It also shows what stage the adrenal glands are in, with 6 stages ranging from normal to adrenal failure. Extremely useful, easy, and inexpensive test. I was very happy with this lab. Not happy with my cortisol and adrenals though...adrenals almost completely shut down and cortisol is a million miles below the normal range at all 4 sample times of the day.
I don't know much about Cushings disease or cortisol. All I know is what my doctor has told me, and that is that when cortisol levels are out of whack, or when adrenal glands are overstressed or failing (shown by the ratio relationship between dhea and cortisol provided in graph form by the idealhealth.com lab), that no amount of meds are going to work right. She says getting the cortisol and adrenals in the normal range can really wake up the meds and the catecholamines and turn the lights on.
Knowing the meds that you are on and the minimal help they are providing you, it did occur to me the possibility of adrenal and/or thyroid hypofunction. Especially when my doc said that no amount of meds are going to work right. She wonders why all practioners do not start with adrenal function first, since everything else revolves around that. She admits that practitioners are not trained in it.
Idealhealth has other useful tests as well, including one that results in a customized vitamin/mineral formula compounded specifically for your body depending on your test results. Also an allergy test. But I think the stress test (cortisol/dhea) is the most useful.
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