Your personal signs of an impending adrenal crisis?
For those of you with a confirmed Addison's (or SAI/TAI/CAH) diagnosis, AND (unfortunately) an adrenal crisis in which you recovered with a full emergency dose....
I'm curious to know what your own, personal, possibly oddball signs are.
As an example, my own "textbook" signs were initially just fatigue, which is so non-specific, as many of us know. But within 30 minutes, I can get to being loopy/tipsy, clumsy, high or low blood pressure, cold hands & feet, or breaking out in a full body sweat. Within an hour, I can be facedown on the floor, unable to move any of my limbs, eventually unable to speak even though I can vaguely tell what's going on around me. *shudder*
But then another Addisonian mentioned they would get this numb mouth and puckered feeling on their face as one of their low symptoms, as if they've been sucking on a lemon, and suddenly I realized I have this, too! I would never have known to add this to my list of warnings, if not for someone else mentioning it. It sure isn't in the endocrinology manual!
So, if you're willing, list your "not on the list" symptoms and maybe it'll help another Addie out, like that one did for me.