I read an article in a newspaper yesterday about someone with Addison's Disease and cortisol problems.It was such a shame that this was happening at such an important time in her life.I was surprised that there was not one referral to the Thyroid in the whole account,which somewhat puzzled me. My Mother was diagnosed with Addisons at around eighty years old.At that time she never said much about it but had been on hydrocortisone for about twenty years after Sheehan's Syndrome having been recognised at 60 yrs.old.... 30 years after my birth !
However,I did know of her symptoms that she had struggled with for many many years that I associated with underactive thyroid hence the recognition of my own symptoms when I first asked for a thyroid blood test twenty or more years ago.
Was I wrong in thinking there was a connection with the thyroid, hence no reference to it in the report?