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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
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoI 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.
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∙ 9y agoThere 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).
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∙ 13y agoIn 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
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What disease did JFK s?
addisons disease
Have people died from addisons disease?
yes
What is the medicine needed for Addisons disease?
Alfredo Campos
Which president of the united States had Addisons disease?
Kennedy
How many people suffer from addisons disease in the world?
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
Can you catch addison's disease from dogs?
Addisons disease is endocrine or hormonal. It cannot be caught from dogs
Which patient would most likely be diagnosed with Addisons disease?
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.
What is the main problem if the pitutary gland is not working?
Possibly Addisons disease
Does Paula Abdul have addisons disease?
yes...and many MANY STDs
How many people have Addison's Disease?
Five to six people in a million have Addisons in the US, and my mom has it.
Duration of fludrocortisone acetate in addison's disease?
Go to Yahoo groups, search for Addisons Dogs
Is there a test for addisons disease?
Stem test, it's actually your cortisol levels being checked at three different times during the infusion. 24 hr urin antibodies i have Addisons
