Has anyone heard of Addison's Disease or has anyone been recently diagnosed with Addison's Disease?

My mother has had Addison's Disease since she was in her mid-thirties. She is now 78 years old! So yes you can live a full and long life with it. As long as your sister has seen an endocrin...

No way. It is from underactive adrenal glands where hormones are underproduced. Your body then tries to compensate by making a lot of another kind of hormone. But don't worry... it's n...

take your medicine everyday and do what you like to do. If you miss taking your meds for a while it will make your muscles hurt. Sometimes you can have an addison's crisis- if you have not ta...

John F. Kennedy had it too.

It's a rare illness marked by gradual and progressive failure of the adrenal glands and insufficient production of steroid hormones. Patients with Addison's disease make inadequate amount...

You are certainly more at risk of getting diabetes. Hypothyroidism is a glandular thing, as is Addisons and diabetes is too. If you get one of them you are more at risk of developing others. A...

I have it and it's my understanding that it's fairly rare perhaps 2-3 cases for every 100,000 people. Symptoms are very low blood pressure, very tired, easily exhausted w. heavy breath...

about a year ago I was diagnosed with it, was very bad at one point but i'm doing much better now with taking 15mg hyrocortisone and 0.1 mg florinef daily, I feel almost normal