> > I wasn't diagnosed at birth - the diagnosis is in retrospect considering >symptoms present from birth. I never took any particular treatment for this >as a young person, and have never accepted any steroid treatment as an >adult. I'd be glad to share more with you if you would like to send >questions. What was the situation when you have been proposed graciously to get cortisone ? when was it? What did you do instead? ( do you take some supplements, adrenal extracts? important life style changes? ...) did you ever had an addisonian crisis. ? for a start jean-claude