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Old 04-03-2008, 08:08 AM
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Sounds like you need the endo - a 24 hour urine test for cortisol (keep it cold no matter what they say), ACTH (make sure that tube is lavender, and spun while you are there and tell them to freeze it promptly or the results will be void, ideally the tube should be chilled too), 8am fasting cortisol, plasma renin activty (ditto all acth instructions) aldosterone, DHEA sulfate, sodium, potassium, vitamin D 25 and 1,25, B12 if you have not had it yet and Free T3 and Free T4 if you have not had it.
The pit tests if you have not had them are prolactin, ACTH, TSH, ADH, IGF-1, and LH/FSH so all those with all the male/female hormones with the above should give you a nice complete profile. Be fasting for 12 hours (water is ok), get to the labe before 8am, be firm about instructions for handling if they are not good as some of the stuff degrades easily (some labs want IGF-I frozen now). I learned the hard way as I had to pay for all their mistakes not only in cash but in diagnosis delays and plus it made my tests come out all wrong which some docs took at face value whereas one finally said hey, the tests do not look right for YOU (a red faced cow at that point) and asked if the tube went into the bin and DING! here I was getting penalized for lab error for years. It pays to learn some of this.... I learned late.
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Cyclical Pituitary Cushing's, Addison's via bilateral adrenalectomy, Growth Hormone Deficent, Migraines, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Hashimoto's, Hypothyroid, Myasthenia Gravis?
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