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Cortisol Belly

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Cortisol Belly

Does anyone know anything about ppl with Cushing’s Disease?

My Cortisol was tested and the dr. said I don’t have Cushing’s
even though I have the big belly and the stretch marks and the thirst and urination and the skin tags and probably some other symptoms. My doctor even said he could see my symptons, but the test he gave me didn’t pick up on it. He made me fast and have a blood test. I thought a 24 hour urine collection was the proper test for Cushing’s Disease. Tell me what you know!

When Cushing’s is suspected, a dexamethasone suppression test (administration of dexamethasone and frequent determination of cortisol and ACTH levels) and 24-hour urinary measurement for cortisol have equal detection rates (Raff & Findling 2003). A novel approach, recently cleared by the US FDA, is sampling cortisol in saliva over 24 hours, which may be equally sensitive, as late night levels of salivary cortisol are high in Cushingoid patients. Other pituitary hormones may need to be determined, and performing physical examination directed for any visual field defect may be necessary if a pituitary lesion is suspected (which may compress the optic chiasm causing typical bitemporal hemianopia).

When these tests are positive, CT scanning of the adrenal gland and MRI of the pituitary gland are performed. These should be performed when other tests are positive, to decrease likelihood of incidentalomas (incidental discovery of harmless lesions in both organs). Scintigraphy of the adrenal gland with iodocholesterol scan is occasionally necessary. Very rarely, determining the cortisol levels in various veins in the body by venous catheterisation working towards the pituitary (petrosal sinus sampling) is necessary.

this link has lots of information,,,hope your ok…god bless