Struggling with Cushing's?
Undiagnosed but your gut says you have it?
Post op pituitary surgery?
Persistent Cushing's and still sick?
Pre-op or post-op bilateral adrenalectomy?
This series of free online radio chats are for you.
MaryO, founder of
Cushings-Help.com and
Cushie.info, and Robin, active board member/blogger of
Survive the Journey and
Cushing's 365, interview Dr. Theodore Friedman, an endocrinologist based in Los Angeles, CA. Dr Friedman has helped many fellow Cushies, and I am proud to have him as my doctor now.
In his private practice, Dr Friedman charges $450 an hour for his time. He has generously donated three hours to us Cushies in these blog chats, and it is far more valuable than the $1,350 you would have paid if you had the exact same conversations in his office. This information is priceless, because it *empowers* patients with knowledge to overcome this rare and rascally disease that doesn't want to go down without a fight.
These chats explain why our local endocrinologists' conventional understanding of and protocol for cushing's does not help all of us. In fact, Dr. Friedman helps us understand that the process of testing, diagnosis, treatment, and surgery (-ies) for patients with cyclical cushing's is very different from florid Cushing's patients. He and his colleagues work very hard to ensure his research findings make their way into the medical literature in hopes of shaping future treatment of mild or episodic Cushing's patients. Also, be sure to read Dr Friedman's latest paper, aptly titled:
High Prevalence of Normal Tests Assessing Hypercortisolism in Subjects with Mild and Episodic Cushing’s Syndrome Suggests that the Paradigm for Diagnosis and Exclusion of Cushing’s Syndrome Requires Multiple Testing
