What are the signs and symptoms of the disease? In most cases, the symptoms come on gradually. Addison disease commonly causes these symptoms: • Low blood pressure, which may cause dizziness or fainting if a person stands up too fast •Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea • Chronic, worsening muscle weakness and fatigue • Loss of appetite and weight loss • Irritability and depression • craving of salty foods due to salt imbalance in the body • Low blood glucose levels, called hypoglycemia, which is more severe in children than in adults • Irregular or absent menstrual periods in women
I have Type 2 Addisons, which means I also have Diabetes and Hypothyroidism. My symptoms when I was first diagnosed with Addisons was that I drastically lost weight, turned jaundice in color, and couldn't eat for an entire month. I would get sick quite often, and my doctors prognosis was constantly an eating disorder. I was very dehydrated, and my cortisol blood levels were low. My potassium and iron levels also drastically changed.
There are many possible symptoms, and it is possible to confuse the condition with other conditions.
The symptoms include fatigue, dizziness upon standing or while upright, muscle weakness, weight loss, difficulty in standing up, fever, anxiety, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, headache, changes in mood and personality, and joint and muscle pains. Some have sodium loss and thus marked cravings for salt or salty foods. Darkening of the skin may be noted, particularly in sun-exposed areas, as well as darkening of the palm creases, sites of friction, recent scars, the vermilion border of the lips, and the genitalia. That is because the trigger hormone to increase cortisol levels would be elevated, and it metabolizes into melanin stimulating hormone (MSH).
In about 75% of all patients, Addison's disease tends to be a very gradual, slowly developing disease. Significant symptoms are not noted until about 90% of the adrenal cortex has been destroyed
addisons disease
yes
Alfredo Campos
Kennedy
1,566 people suffer from addisons disease. This information can be really useful if you want to find out about life expectanies of different people x
Addisons disease is endocrine or hormonal. It cannot be caught from dogs
A patient being treated by a hormone doctor, immune system doctor or perhaps and internal medicine doctor who is on the ball can find and determine if a patient has Addison's disease. I could give you the many symptoms of Addison's disease but then you might think you have it. It is a tricky disease to diagnose and requires lab work, scans and a sharp doctor who can recognize it and not confuse the many symptoms that are in other diseases. Go to an endocrine doctor first and present the symptoms to him or her. You can claim you suspect the disease and explain why. The doctor will determine the proper course to take.
Possibly Addisons disease
yes...and many MANY STDs
Five to six people in a million have Addisons in the US, and my mom has it.
Go to Yahoo groups, search for Addisons Dogs
Stem test, it's actually your cortisol levels being checked at three different times during the infusion. 24 hr urin antibodies i have Addisons