Sorry for getting back so late....but here goes....I went to the endocrinologist after having my stim test...she said i had hardly any cortisol in my body. and put in me on coritisone pills immediately. She said she is seeing it more and more and cortisone is over prescribed and it does get in your blood stream from these epidural shots. She said to never get it again, unless they inject something else.....I have to stay on these darn pills for at least 3 more weeks till the next stim test, to see if it was from the shots, me or both...she acted like it would be very rare to have a cortisol disease,,,,,,though lucky for me her partner was testing me at that time!!!!I never would have known and you can die from it!!!(that is if you get really sick or have surgery, you can have an Addisonian crisis type of thing....)!!! I cannot believe they do not tell you tthat when getting these shots..or was it someihting in small print.....anyway the only thing I could come up with was by googling and from her.....very scary.....when I get the energy I will put up a big warning post! I asked about the leg cramps and she didn't seem to know.... i called today about that...she asked if I had something else going on...well yeah but.....

I asked the pain guy about the dose of steroid, since one thing I really care about is NOT suppressing my pituitary again. He said it was small, and a different kind from what used to be used, so it wouldn't be an issue.

But one way or another, I had the epidural in June, and it's August, and the improvement is still there. I am much much better.

I'm also on parathyroid injections daily, but they are not supposed to work for 3 - 6 months.

don't care how you got the improvement. I'm just glad you did get one. It's great to hear you and see you in better comfort. Next thing we know you'll be giving concerts on that grand piano.

Billye

LizaJane

I am so pleased to hear you are feeling much better. I do hope the improvement will continue.

Tony