Guest guest Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Ron et al., it is called iatrogenic or secondary Cushings. Primary cushings is when your body produces too much cortisol via the adrenals. We take extra cortisol in the form of pred (aka evil candy) and hence develop secondary or treatment-induced cushings. Cushings is bad. Hypertension, osteoporosis, skin breakdown, muscle wasting, various immune deficiencies, diabetes, glaucoma, cataracts, central obesity leading to cardiac disease, depression, memory loss d/t hippocampal cell death to name a few are the effects of Cushings on the body. Should you be concerned? Absolutely. Your physician and you need to work to find the lowest possible dose of pred for you to function on. As my MD said, " Pred is eating you from the inside and taking years off your life " . MDs can spot us a mile away from the unique form the body takes on (big belly, skinny arms and legs and horrific stretch marks EVERYWHERE). It requires you to have special monitoring (bone density tests for osteoporosis even if you are male and have no risk factors) and you need to take a calcium and vit D supplement every day etc.....your eyes absolutely need to be checked annually and your bloods for elevated lipids, liver function, glucose etc....done regularly. But, can you function without pred? Maybe, maybe not. But it does have a huge cost. still fighting to get off (6 years and counting....) __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new . Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail..ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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