Good grief thank goodness that forum is shutting down! The "adrenal" forum is run by a dog groomer that states all docs are quacks and hasnt been to one in 30yrs. She is telling people to take steroids to "heal" their adrenals and from what I read 90% of them are not telling their doctors and are encouraged not to. The "physiological dose" they push is 20mg/day but many are taking in excess of 40mg-and most of those are complaining of cushing like symptoms and told... get this.. "stress dose and take more". The last post I could stand reading was one with a gal who was newly pregnant, self dosing 40mg of steroids and says she isnt telling her doctor. Her concern back and forth with the moderator was about "damaging her adrenals" not a word about what that dose might do to the baby. They have people ordering the stuff from overseas, some eating actual hydrocortisone cream to get the dosage needed...ugh... How many gp's are going to get stunned by a crashing patient that hasnt told them what the heck they are taking?? I think it is good that place is shutting down but all those people self medicating are left high and dry and hopefully know enough to taper down dosage and not just stop cold turkey.
Maybe they will get lucky and find themselves over here getting some other options.