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Re: What could this mean--high cortisol levels!-THANKS BELLE!!!!!From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:34:52 -0600 (CST)
CAH is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. I answered a question about this about 4 days ago, I think. You can find information on it at the same page I listed earlier. http://www.medhelp.org/nadf/ The symptoms are somewhat similar to PCOS and I have seen women having to rule out CAH in order to determine if they have PCOS. As far as your DHEAS is concerned, I have never seen the lab test calibrated in this way. DHEAS normal for adult women is usually 12.0-380.0 microgram/dL (according to http://www.upmc.edu/endodocs/NNormal.htm . It looks high to me, but since I am not used to this scale, it could mean anything. It sounds like your doctor is trying to run tests to help figure out the problem but is having to wait on the equipment schedule. That is one thing that we have an advantage of here in the States, we have lots of equipment. We just have to convience the insurance company that we need the tests. I do have a question for you: are you talking about DHEAs (as in multiple DHEA, like MGs for milligrams) or DHEAS? They are two different things. I am having a hard time determining what you are meaning here. Thanks for the encouragement. No, I am not a doctor. I put that dream on hold a few years back because my family came first. Now, I have a condition (in addition to PCOS) that prevents me from getting around as I would like. So I no longer work with patients, only research. It is funny though, out of all of my cousins, my sister and I are the only two females who are not doctors; my sister is a medical transcriptionist and I as the oldest, started the whole trend.
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