What is Addisons-Disease

Addison's disease (also known as chronic adrenal insufficiency, or hypocortisolism) is a rare endocrine disorder. It is estimated that it affects about 1 to 2 in 100,000 people. It...

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Friday November 27, 2009

Call For Help Stories

  • I'm losing my husband to Alzheimers big time!!

    Sunday, October 19, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    My husband was supposed to have an angioplasty on his leg on the 28th of this month.  He had one previously and got through it pretty go - a littlle more memory loss but he was forgetting as usual.  He just had another one the other day and I didn't know that he was in the hospital.  I Kept calling his cell phone and thought that maybe he was asleep and wasn't answering and...

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  • Someone, Tell Me What To Do.

    Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | A Call For Help story

    Please, someone tell me what to do.
    Today is my daughters 17th birthday. Again, I can't do anyhting. No cake, no present not even friends over to help her celebrate. Why? Because I am so broke. I only get disablity to support me and 4 kids and my husband (whom I moved out to get away from in July and he ended up here with us). Thats 6 people on $1000 a month. I have applied for food stamps, m...

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  • I hope that God is reading this entry because I still feel so horrible.  I feel so shaky and my chest feels so weird.  I know that my heart was hurting on Thursday on the way home and then yesterday I had a horrible headache that felt alright when the lights were out but when they were on WOW!!!!   I used to get migraines before and thought they were bad but my head hurt so ba...

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  • I had my appointment today with the Endrochronologist but before we were picked up my Mother desides to start ragging on me because I had asked her to take my O2 canister off the filling machine and after two seconds of trying she said her usual response "I can't do this" and then I said that I knew I was going to get her stock answer.  Then I told her it figured because she wa...

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  • extremely upset

    Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    I'm not having a good morning and I don't think things are going to get any better. My thinking is crazy. How do I pick myself up and move forward?

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  • The week I have had

    Friday, May 8, 2009 | A Call For Help story

    For years I have suffered with bizarre symptoms and have been told, "You're not sick". Finally this past week at work I fell so ill that I had to go the hospital and was admitted and after a week of being made a human pin cushion I got two diagnosis....Addison's and Celiac. I am worn out, exhausted, alone, and frustrated beyond all belief. Argggggggggggggh! 

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  • S. A. D.

    Sunday, October 25, 2009 | A Call For Help story

     
    Have any of you used the special lights that are sold for S A D ? 
    I'm looking for some first person input about them, as to how best to use them, and what results you have experienced. 
    Thanks Donna, for the warning that they can be overused ....... I have to wonder what the indications of that would be .......? 
    I bought one last year toward the end of the sea...



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