Addison's disease

LimeLight

Anyone here got it?

I'm being tested for it and wondered what the consequences of it were.

SingleSue

My ex husband has it.

For him, due to the high dosage of daily steroids (two different types), he has suppressed immunity which caused problems when the boys were young...any tummy bug and it became a medical emergency (he also has diabetes so that may have caused a further complication).

Also long term steroid use has caused osteroporosis in him but the medication may have changed now to lessen that chance.

The worse complication is an Addisonian crisis, this is a medical emergency and has to be dealt with immediately by a large IV steroid push...my ex husband's addisonian crisis' were caused by the above mentioned tummy bugs

Apart from that, it presented no real difficulties day to day apart from being careful of those who had nasty bugs. He still managed to work full time, go to the gym everyday and basically carry out a pretty normal life.

Please note though, this was our experience of Addisons, everyone is different and may react completely differently, plus of course he also had the added complication of unstable diabetes...both illnesses put the other one out all the time.

JJ7

Hi Limelight,

Here is a good Uk site with lots of info about addison's disease,

http://www.addisons.org.uk/

Good luck and fingers crossed for you.