tn13
27-08-13, 03:42
I hope this will be the last item in the carousel of health anxieties for me.
Now that I'm fully over my blood clot fear, I started wondering about why this anxiety had suddenly started up, and I remembered reading something about Cushing's disease which is caused by too much cortisol being in your system, either by taking steroids or having a benign pituitary or adrenal tumour. I have a few symptoms: I've gained weight, not dramatically quickly but I've gained quite a bit since high school and since I went on Cipralex two years ago. A symptom is a "moon face" and I'm not sure i have that or not, but my face has changed shape a bit since I've gained weight; a "buffalo hump" at the back of the neck, and I'm not sure if I have normal fat back there or a hump. I have some fat that sticks out under the back of my neck but not between my shoulders like photos I've seen online. Finally, my periods have been really messed up since I started the meds. They were always irregular but I went two years without one between 2011 and this year! Stupidly I never told my doctor. Anxiety is also a symptom. I don't have the other symptoms - frequent illness (haven't been sick in three years and I work with kids!), weakness, fatigue, muscle wasting, confusion, acne, hirstutism other than typical annoyance of a little above the lip and below the belly button, easy bruising (I just got blood drawn today and haven't bruised at all from it), insomnia, osteoporosis, or high blood pressure or high sugar, but I'm scared those will develop!!
I called my GP in a panic last week and he sent me for blood tests which I did today. Of course I had to read in detail about Cushing's online and it seems terrifying. It takes people years to get properly diagnosed, some having to travel across the country to specialists because it's so rare, and when people get the surgery to get the tumour removed, it seems a lot of the time it comes back and they're never really cured!! I'm so scared of this, and even when I get the blood results back if they say I don't have it, I still don't know if I'll believe them because of all of the horror stories online, which seem to be the norm! My doctors tell me they've seen people with cushings before and don't think I have it but from the forums online it seems few doctors really do know about how to diagnose it. My sister has PCOS and it's in the family so I'm praying that's all they'll find.
Can someone please help me here?? Does anyone know anyone with Cushing's or has had this fear before? Been going crazy the past week :scared15: my pdoc switched me to Cymbalta from Cipralex today and I'm a bit scared to start taking it until after I have the blood results...
Now that I'm fully over my blood clot fear, I started wondering about why this anxiety had suddenly started up, and I remembered reading something about Cushing's disease which is caused by too much cortisol being in your system, either by taking steroids or having a benign pituitary or adrenal tumour. I have a few symptoms: I've gained weight, not dramatically quickly but I've gained quite a bit since high school and since I went on Cipralex two years ago. A symptom is a "moon face" and I'm not sure i have that or not, but my face has changed shape a bit since I've gained weight; a "buffalo hump" at the back of the neck, and I'm not sure if I have normal fat back there or a hump. I have some fat that sticks out under the back of my neck but not between my shoulders like photos I've seen online. Finally, my periods have been really messed up since I started the meds. They were always irregular but I went two years without one between 2011 and this year! Stupidly I never told my doctor. Anxiety is also a symptom. I don't have the other symptoms - frequent illness (haven't been sick in three years and I work with kids!), weakness, fatigue, muscle wasting, confusion, acne, hirstutism other than typical annoyance of a little above the lip and below the belly button, easy bruising (I just got blood drawn today and haven't bruised at all from it), insomnia, osteoporosis, or high blood pressure or high sugar, but I'm scared those will develop!!
I called my GP in a panic last week and he sent me for blood tests which I did today. Of course I had to read in detail about Cushing's online and it seems terrifying. It takes people years to get properly diagnosed, some having to travel across the country to specialists because it's so rare, and when people get the surgery to get the tumour removed, it seems a lot of the time it comes back and they're never really cured!! I'm so scared of this, and even when I get the blood results back if they say I don't have it, I still don't know if I'll believe them because of all of the horror stories online, which seem to be the norm! My doctors tell me they've seen people with cushings before and don't think I have it but from the forums online it seems few doctors really do know about how to diagnose it. My sister has PCOS and it's in the family so I'm praying that's all they'll find.
Can someone please help me here?? Does anyone know anyone with Cushing's or has had this fear before? Been going crazy the past week :scared15: my pdoc switched me to Cymbalta from Cipralex today and I'm a bit scared to start taking it until after I have the blood results...