I found this post on my illness and thought I would put it out there in case someone is curious. A lot of post I read just don’t explain things well but I liked this one.
Actually, there is nothing funny about Addison’s Disease except you may end up on the medical’s examiner’s table awaiting autopsy before you are diagnosed, unless of course, you are the President of the United States as John F. Kennedy was.
Addison’s Disease is the great pretender in that it mimics many illness, and patients are routinely dismissed and sent home with a bottle of pills, and given some vague diagnosis such as flu, fatigue, female or male difficulties, backache, headache, or just plain hypochondria. Addison’s Disease is also rare with only a 1 to 100,000 ratio. With such odds, a doctor could conceivably spend his entire career without encountering a single case of Addison’s Disease.
Addison Disease seems to arise between the age of thirty to fifty, and has no known cause. Apparently, it just happens, and the lucky recipient can expect to exhaust an entire line of physicians in several…
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