- was excessive hairloss - now Cushings?????

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> >I was placed on Synthroid because I had all the symptoms of

> hypothyroid (moon face, hair loss, lethargic, cold hand etc.) even

Did you do the adrenal fatigue test that was posted yesterday? Would be

interesting to know what the results are because the symptoms you've listed

above are *also* symptoms of Cushings Syndrome, particularly the moon face.

One of the other complications of Cushings is calcinosis cutis, which is

crusty " sores " on the skin, the hair thinning, and coming off in patches

because of the calcium which becomes abnormally trapped in the skin.

Calcinosis cutis is diagnosed by punch biopsy - they take a little core of

skin layers and examine them - very different to a scraping biopsy, which

may not show this up.

Docs don't like it when you go to them saying " I think I've got X " , so do

all your reading and see if you fit the pattern for this problem before

jumping ahead, that way you can be very firm if a doc tries to put you off

investigating this further.

Donna in Oz.