Adrenal Insufficiency Support Group

My heartrate has also gone back up, but I'm not sure if this is related or not.

I see my internist Tuesday, but I wondered if any of you have had flushing. I called the shrink, because the only new meds are the ones they gave me, and I've been on them about 4 weeks...so enough time for them to build up good and cause problems. He's convinced it's not the psych meds, but it might be the prednisone.

Now, I'm getting a little tired of every doc blaming everything on pred. I've been on it for 11 months now. But I'm open to anything at this point. Anyone?

Thanks,

Cynthia - who looks very embarrassed at the moment.

I don't think that after 11 months of pred the pred could be causing this, but I'm not a doctor. I do think that whenever I've gone on a new med and I get a side effect it is more likely to be related to (a) the new med - duh! or (b) an interaction of the new med with other meds I'm on. Or could be (c) totally unrelated to either and some other hypoallergen got into the mix.

Isn't life grand?

Deb

You know, I've been hearing so much from docs about being on such a high dose of pred, it never occured to me it could be low cortisol. It's happening in the late afternoons/evenings, though, which would make sense for that. I take all my pred in the morning at the same time.

Hmmmmm...good food for thought. I have several more doc appointments coming up, so I'll have some to run it by before I get to the endo.

Thank you!

That cannot be normal. I will mention to the docs that several of you get it when you are low, although I doubt they will buy that with my dose.

The weird thing is, now that it's been high if I take more than 5mg HC, I don't flush as often.

I also noticed that I can't take HC 2 days in a row or I get awful headaches! I check my BP (when I'm on the HC and it's elevated)

After my surgery I'm going to get down to this w/my new doc. Right now no one wants to change anything until after.

Corri

(whose head feels like it's going to explode from pressure, and looks like a beet)

It's so weird, because all I can think about is toilets having this discussion!

I hate this crap. I'm a little bit tired of medication side effects.

You all know the flushing mechanism right? (A hot hypothalamus) ie that gland thinks your body temperature is too high and tries to bring it down. Either your drug is raising your metabolic temperature or is affecting the gland hot/cold calibration point. (ie the thermostat is out of adjustment)

What happens if you cool your head or squirt something cool up your nasal cavity. (Have you picked yourself off the floor laughing yet?) DO NOT BE STUPID HERE!

Seriously if you have clear sinuses the pituitary kind of protrudes down into the top of it and I wonder if simple cooling would help the flushes. Of course its deep inside at almost the centre of your skull so applying an ice cube is likely dangerous and any external cooling would be pretty well negated by blood flowing, I do however have to ask. I mean they use underarm icepacks in hospitals for very bad fevers. Maybe breathing cool air (like through a CPAP nose mask) would be an answer, or more importantly don't breathe in hot air!

Okay give it your best shot! (Think I'll store my saline spray in the fridge...)

Bob (Who only flushes when bike riding)