Hello again. I am even more bewildered now and am always grateful for comments and advice given on this forum. I am currently taking 20mg Prednisolone and have been asked several times by my GP to have a Cortisol blood test. I finally had this done at 8.50am on Monday. I didn't take my dose until after the test.
At 1pm I received a call from a GP telling me that my results showed a very low reading and that they would check further.
Today my GP asked to see me and repeated this information. He telephoned the endocrinologist who said I needed to ensure that, I should not drop below 7.5mg, if I felt light headed I must double up on my steroids and contact the GP, and if I had sickness or diarrhoea I must go to A & E and be given steroids intravenously. It could be life threatening!
I am totally confused as I am lead to believe that my reading shouldn't be low as I am taking 20mg per day.
Could anyone offer any explanations as to why there seems to be a contradiction in the advice.
Thanks in advance.