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    I have just posted to this newsgroup a request for help and I thought
that it would be rather selfish of me to ask for help and not attempt to
provide some in return. To that end, I am posting accounts of two health
problems I have had and their solutions. In each case, I think that the
problem is unusual enough that the majority of the people reading will not
have heard this information before. If I am wrong and this information is
"old hat," so to speak, I apologize. 


My second anecdote: Corticoid steroids


    A number of years back, I was taking a number of different sinus
medications to combat headaches. They included anti-histamines,
decongestants, and steroid nose sprays such as Beconase and Vancenase
[sp?].  I began to feel very spacy, very light headed and dizzy. I wanted
to sleep all of the time. My doctors insisted that this could not be
caused by my medications. Against their wishes, I stopped taking all
medications except for the nose spray.  A week later, nothing had changed.
I stopped taking the nose spray. 48 hours later, I began having fairly
severe withdrawal symptoms. A year or so earlier, I had experienced
similar symptoms (but much more intense) after taking an oral corticoid
steroid (the same drug used in the nose spray).  Symptoms were lack of
appetite, listlessness, a distinct kind of depression, a general flu-like
feeling, and fatigue. According to the package insert for the nose spray,
this type of reaction was possible. However, my doctors continued to
insist that the nose spray was not to blame. 
    According to the pacakage insert and articles I found in nursing
journals, the steroids in the spray supplemented the steroids produced in
the adrenal gland. When the adrenal gland sensed that there were enough of
these steroids in the body, it stopped making them. Then, when I stopped
taking the nose spray, I no longer had the artificial steroids in my body
OR the natural steroids that the body normally produces. The adrenal gland
"supressed" for so long, could not catch up, could not produce the
necessarry steroids. Finally, a kinesiologist in Atlanta gave me a
medication called "Core-Level Adrenals" manufactured by a company called
Nutri-West. Within a few days, my condition began to improve and within
three weeks, I was back to normal. 


     I will be glad to provide any information, answer any questions, or
listen to any jokes on this subject. Please contact me at CTurner@aol.com.
Thanks for listening.