Question re adrenal saliva test and asthma steroids

[Sneedle]

Hello,

I plan to buy an adrenal cortisol saliva test from Regenerus ( Hidden think you're right and I need to know where I'm at).

I use a steroid inhaler for asthma and see that Regenerus suggests not taking it 5 days in advance - not possible unless they would be happy with the drool from a corpse.😁

What do people do, just go ahead and ignore the recommendations? Does anyone know how the steroids affect the results?

Thanks.

[humanbean]

If you use your inhaler every day then your cortisol level on those days that you use it is "normal for you".

So, just carry on with your inhaler as normal. I would suggest not timing things so that you use the inhaler immediately before producing a saliva sample though. Delay your inhaler until immediately after you've produced a saliva sample.

This link might be helpful :

stopthethyroidmadness.com/s...

[Sneedle in reply to humanbean]

Wow that's a brilliant link, thank you!

Yes that's what I'll do thanks, I only use it twice a day so delaying will be easy to do.

Sorted!

[humanbean in reply to Sneedle]

You're welcome.

[Zephyrbear]

To have to do without the inhaler (I use Fostair) for 5 days would be totally unacceptable and probably quite dangerous. I did the Medichecks saliva cortisol tests which didn’t mention anything about inhalers, but I did the tests well away from them anyway.