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Old 07-13-2009, 06:17 AM   #13
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If for some reason you suspect Cushing's, as others have mentioned - the screening test (which can rule it OUT, but not definitively diagnose it - but this is the first step) is a Urine cortisol-creatinine test - the urine must be collected at home, at a stress free time. If this test shows high cortisol - then you have to move on to an ACTH or LDDS test, or....like my Wylie - a special Adrenal Panel from the U of Tenn., but that's for a more complicated case.
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