The Cortisol Connection

The Cortisol Connection.

Why is it so fucking difficult for Drs to understand the Endocrine System?

They seem to have a handle on the skeleto-muscualr system and the digestive system.

These people are Medical Professionals with at least 4 years of University education.  

The caring profession.  

Folk that signed up to take care of their fellow people.  

Members of an elite, who swore an oath to uphold certain standards of healing. 

It doesn't go unnoticed that college students studying a simple Anatomy & Physiology class learn Endocrinology on a daily basis and appear to have a firm grasp of the concept that, if one of your hormones is doing a funky dance, out of whack, or playing hooky, the rest will certainly follow suit.

Hell, the general public is well aware of roid rage.  Wrestlers and body builders the world over get it. Remember that skinny kid in your class at school that bulked up to look like a lumpy pillow and went off the rails?  You see, even you can tell when a persons endocrine system is freaking out.    

And we all have that one Auntie with a fat belly, skinny legs and a beard, right?

So why in the name of Chris Benoit can Drs not put insulin and cortisol together and make Cushings Disease?

What is so difficult about measuring some thyroid hormones, finding them too low and treating the patient with a similar animal hormone, instead of giving them some chemically produced synthetic pill from a pharmaceutical company, that only contains a part of what needs replacing?   They readily treat diabetes with pig Insulin.... 

Why, if a lady is exhibiting signs and symptoms of Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome, and has a five o’clock shadow more impressive than Sidney Crosbys Stanley Cup Final play off beard, and pustules the size of skittles, can we not then diagnose their PCOS and give this lady the care, attention and treatment they need, instead of telling her she is fat, lazy and needs to shave?

Why does the size of a persons dorsocervical fat pad (yes it has a real name, it's not just a hump) need to be out of range of sight and just how many 100's of lbs does one need to gain (without changing their routine or diet, while going inexplicably bald, and becoming emotionally unstable) before a Dr, who you are paying for out of your taxes, will allow you to piss in a plastic bottle to let someone else dip a testing strip in it, so as to test for Cushings disease? 

Is all of this happening because pharmaceutical companies don’t pay Drs to do test for these illnesses?

It sure as hell seems that way.

Or maybe it's because Fibromyalgia, which has no specific cause, and no scientific explanation, is so much easier to diagnose and can be treated with a cocktail of drugs, offered to Drs, with a nice little pay off, by the pharmaceutical companies?

Very likely.

Indeed, it takes an average of five years worth of wrong diagnosis, for the average person to get a correct diagnosis in regard to an endocrine illness, other than diabetes.  Test after test, after repeat test.  You'll likely get a bunch of false positives too.  For certain you will get prescriptions of this pain medication, that anti-depressant and the other sleeping pill along the way, doled out readily and steadily.  

And along the way you are certain to get at least one diagnosis of depression, but you will not need to visit to a mental health Dr. You will constantly be told you are fat and lazy, but won't need to see a dietitian.  And you'll get at least two fibromyalgia diagnosis requiring absolutely no physical, no urine testing and no blood work....   

I'm special.  I have fibromyalgia three times!

Maybe someone with a PHD can explain it better, and give me another prescription for some medication I don’t need while they do so, because from where I am sitting It just makes absolutely no fucking sense.

Or maybe I’m just depressed, with fibromyalgia and a side of brain fog......

Karen Graham HNC  June 4 2014