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• 🖤 In Memory: Lori Holt ~ January 6, 2008
  During the first few days of September 2007, Lori had surgery to remove her adrenal gland. She experienced extreme difficulty post surgery and never recovered.
• ⭐️ Top Picks on the Message Boards updated December 29, 2022
  Top content from across the message boards, hand-picked by MaryO and the Cushing's community.
• 📞 Date Change - Webinar: Good Hormone Health Webinar Sunday January 22, 2023. 6 PM PST
  Dr. Theodore Friedman (The Wiz) will be joined by Eddie Ramirez, MD and will discuss the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine as applied to patients with Endocrine disorders
• ‼️ Message Board Upgrade (and new features!) Coming this Weekend
  This is our January maintenance release. During the holiday period, our focus is on providing bug fixes and improving stability.
• 🖤 In Memory: Jill's Father. January 5, 2005
  Jill wrote: 'In December 2004 my dad who had addison's for over 30 years had a triple bypass surgery 6 days before Christmas. The surgery was an amazine success and it was predicted he would be home before Christmas. Day 2 following surgery the hospital neglected to give him his steriods for his Addison's for 22 hours, which they were complete […]
• 🖤 In Memory of Malia Kenney ~ January 4, 2017
  Malia died January 4, 2017 at the age of 40. She has been dealing with Cushings Disease for the past 18 yrs or so.
• 🥼Upcoming Knee Replacement Surgery
  I'm going to be having a total left knee replacement surgery in early February so I may not be around so much for a while.  My surgeon knows I need extra steroids. 
• 📰 Cushing’s Disease Patients are More Likely to Have Ocular Hypertension
  Ocular hypertension was more common in people with Cushing’s illness. The usage of steroids in the body is a major contributor to high intraocular pressure (IOP). Topical or systemic glucocorticoid use may increase the prevalence.
• 📞 Webinar: Good Hormone Health Webinar Sunday January 8, 2023. 6 PM PST
  Dr. Theodore Friedman (The Wiz) will be joined by Eddie Ramirez, MD and will discuss the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine as applied to patients with Endocrine disorders
• 🎄Merry Christmas!
• ✍️ Follow HappyGirl's BLA Journey
  Cliff notes: 4 mm microadenoma in my pituitary, 3 years testing because I am cyclical, ipss, pit sx Oct 13th 2021, remission for about 8 months then recurrence. No target on mris, all my tests back high. Now I am getting a bla. Met my surgeon yesterday…
• 📰 CRH Stimulation Test Boosts Cushing Disease Diagnosis
  Adding a corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulation test immediately following a 2-day low-dose dexamethasone suppression test (LDDST) ― what's known as a Dex-CRH test and was first introduced in 1993 ― identified Cushing disease in 5 of 65 people (7.7%) with a confirmed diagnosis but who had previously shown normal cortisol levels on a conventio […]
• 📰 Association Between Aldosterone and Hypertension Among Patients With Overt and Subclinical Hypercortisolism
  Among 89 patients enrolled in this study (median age, 51 years), 21 showed clinical signs of Cushing syndrome (overt hypercortisolism) and 68 did not show clinical presentations (subclinical hypercortisolism).
• 🖤 In Memory: Judy Kennedy - December 15, 2019
  Judy died on December 15, 2019, after battling lung cancer, Atrial fibrillation, and total body weakness.  She was a great warrior for her children.
• 📰 Reoperation for Recurrent and Persistent Cushing’s Disease without Visible MRI Findings
  Transsphenoidal surgery is the first-line treatment for Cushing’s disease (CD), even with negative preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results. Some patients with persistent or recurring hypercortisolism have negative MRI findings after the initial surgery. We aimed to analyze the efficacy of repeat surgery in two groups of patients and determine i […]
• ✍️ Amber D, Pituitary Bio
  Amber is from New Zealand. She was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor in 2020​, and underwent surgery, several years after symptoms emerged, including rapid weight gain, muscle loss, brain fog, fatigue, depression and severe headaches.
• 📰 (Korlym) Corcept settles patent dispute with Hikma over Cushing’s syndrome drug
  Per the terms of the settlement, Corcept (CORT) has allowed Hikma (OTCPK:HKMPF) the rights to market a generic version of Korlym from Oct. 01, 2034, or earlier subject to certain conditions.
• 📰 Preop TT3 Predicts HPA Axis Recovery After Cushing Surgery
  Patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) experienced transient central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) after successful surgery. However, the reported recovery time of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis varied and the risk factors which could affect recovery time of HPA axis had not been extensively studied. This study aimed to analyze the duration of CAI and […]
• ✍️ Comment added to Ketogenic Diet Initially Masks Symptoms of Hypercortisolism in Cushing’s Disease
  Incredible. We've known about this for how long around here? Like 20 years? I discovered it independently by trial and error before even knowing what Cushing's was.
• 🖤 In Memory: Millie Niss ~ November 29, 2009
  Millie is the first Cushing’s patient that I know of to have died from complications from Swine Flu. She was only 36. Millie developed a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus. She spent 29 days in the ICU of Millard Suburban Hospital before dying of complications of the flu, compounded by Behcet’s Disease and Cushings Disease.