Hi my name is Christine. I am 52 yrs old and under going the first stages of the diagnosis of Cushings Syndrome
My diagnosis started back in Septmeber 2008 but unfortunatly I still don’t have a final diagnosis almost a year on.
I am at my wits end with frustration and feeling really poorly right now and know were to ask questions.
I have just returned home from a 5day stay in hospital for a midnight cortisone test. I left more frustrated than ever as the tests all went so very wrong and I may have to return and start all over again.
Can you help by answering this question…..when asleep and blood is taken at midnight……do I have to be in a deep sleep state for a result. Obviously I keep waking up and my Consultant insists I must remain in deep state sleep to confirm a diagnosis.
Please can someone help.
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Mar 10, 2015 @ 16:56:19
How does one get a diagnosis when you have all the symptoms but that late night saliva test is negative each time?? I just read that Cushing’s caused by tumors of the adrenal glad can actually give a negative result on this particular test. I’m not a doctor…. but I can tell my daughter has all the symptoms…but they can’t seem to get a diagnosis. If not Cushing’s, what is causing all these symptoms? (She also has PCOS which was diagnosed several years ago, and which does have some similar symptoms. They only seem to have one endocrinologist in her area which is fairly remote in upstate NY. Please let me know if this patient did get a diagnosis and how it’s working out. Thanks!