I am currently doing a high dose dexamethasone test. I am letting you know as it surely is effecting my personality as well as my sleep so I may respond uh, differently...
The thought behind this test is to see if my elevated ACTH is suppressible at all so then the doctor can decide if there is a level of corticosteroid that can be used to keep it down while not giving me Cushing's or if I do not suppress, then I have to consider radiation which is something I really really don't want to do as I don't have a defined target and they would have to cover a fairly large area from my pituitary to my clivus.
Last time I took a dex test, my ACTH went down to less than zero, but so far on just regular normal doses, I have not been able to get down to even a normal dose even for a post-BLA patient.
So I am a hopped up, cranky person... my husband is so so unhappy. Poor guy.