Calling anyone with ADRENAL information references.

[stella5349]

With Adrenal disfunction and thyroid disease almost going hand in hand - I wanted to ask members here on thyroid if they have some resource information and proper labs to get a HEALTH PAGE started over on Adrenals.

If you feel you do not want to post your information here in this thread and want to PM me - please do so.

I am trying to get this rolling over there so the Adrenal forum can have as great of a resource base as we do here on thyroid.

Also - if there are any takers that would like to create a page - such as proper labs to have ran- for adrenals

Please "HAVE HAD IT"

I know many medical professionals are here with much better resources than I have -  and the Adrenal members would sure love to see this stuff posted for them!

How hard we all talk about our thyroid diagnoses -  It seems these adrenal suffers are even worse off then us!

[estrelinha]

A good start : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_gland

About normal lab values, just a reference,  (always look for your lab values):

Should test for ACTH (normal, 55-250 pmol/L or 6,0-76 pg/mL)

Plasmatic Cortisol:
Morning (8-12h): 139-690 nmol/L or 5-25 microgram/dL
12-20h: 138-414 nmol/L or 5-15 microgram/dL
20-8h:0-276 nmol/L or 0-10 microgram/dL

Free cortisol in urine: 55-193 nmol/24 h or 20-70 microgram/24 h

For cushing should test for plasmatic cortisol  at 8 in the morning or free cortisol in 24 h urine, after taking 1 mg of dexametasone at midnight, if abnormal, must do more tests: Abnormal suppression of the cortisol in response of dexametasone intake (48 h test....)

Other tests:
DHEA in urine
Aldosterone (plasma)
Sodium
Potassium
Renin (plasma)
Response to cortisol 60 min after taking ACTH (for addison), ......................
Catecholamines (for Pheochromocytoma) in plasma and urine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheochromocytoma)

[kitty9309]

http://www.endotext.org/protocols/protocols1/protocolsframe1.htm

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/83/8/2726

http://www.emedicine.com/med/TOPIC42.HTM

http://www.nadf.us/index.htm

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/18/4/450

Hope these are OK. It has been a while since I have looked at them.