Posted by glenn on April 9, 2003, at 4:37:31
In reply to Re: IMHO, Don't sweat the hypercortisolemia! » Ron Hill, posted by Pfinstegg on April 8, 2003, at 23:38:41
I am more impressed with jerrys endocrinologist than matts I have to say.
If an endocrinologist has carried out a study differentiating between those with high cortisol levels and those having normal or lowered levels and trying treatment based on this which failed, then fair enough, they may have the right to call others quacks.
If not then to beleive them seems to be putting your fate in the hands of someone very keen to dismiss others who are at least trying to further the treatment of a difficult illness.
I presume they are in part referring to Owen Wolkowicz, you might like to look up his work before you go along with a blanket condemnation of him!
I also wonder whether it might be that the sweating you refer to is in fact a causal factor in the cortisol levels rising in the first place,
yes of course further worrying will exacerbate this, but you do not seem to have come up with an alternative method for dealing with the high or low cortisol, ignoring it maybe!When a study is carried out which treats those who have abnormal cortisol levels with those methods known to counteract this ( be they pharmaceutical, natural supplemntal or herbal)
and this is proven to be a failure, then I will admit defeat on this.
One final point , I am rather fed up of having been treated by " downstream" methods such as ads,
if they do not work then it seems you are the problem! not the treatment method or the lack of knowledge on the medics part.
I take comfort in the australian guy who 20 years or so ago suggested that most ulcers were the result of helicobacter infestation. He was roudly condemned by the majority of docs who said that what you really needed to do was stress management, change your personality from type a to type b and swallow your zantac you naughty boy!Nowadays the prescription is almost always for metronidazole ( after a test for h/p of course)maybe with some zantac or similar med to strart with.
Now where have all those type a and b docs gone? haven't seen many recently?
poster:glenn
thread:217414
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030407/msgs/217715.html