Thank you for those who helped me out with the delusional thinker question.....
Now, I have seen quite a few nervous testers posting for clarification on Addison's. I have a pretty over-all idea, but does anyone have a mneumonic or some helpful way to put my ambiguity to rest!?! I have a funny thing that I do now....I think of Addison on Grey's anatomy with her coppery hair (for the pigmented skin)...hahah. anything better though for the rest of the symptoms?
I remember Cushings because the person looks like a pin cushion. They are large trunked and their arms and legs are skinny like pins. Cushings is too much cortisol and I know the S/E of corticosteroids which makes you look like you have cushings.
I believe JFK had Addisons and I remember my professor saying "can you imagine a president who has very little cortisol, therefore decreased stress coping." This is such a bizarre fact that it just always stuck with me.
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I remember Cushings because the person looks like a pin cushion. They are large trunked and their arms and legs are skinny like pins. Cushings is too much cortisol and I know the S/E of corticosteroids which makes you look like you have cushings.
I believe JFK had Addisons and I remember my professor saying "can you imagine a president who has very little cortisol, therefore decreased stress coping." This is such a bizarre fact that it just always stuck with me.
Abe Lincoln supposedly had acromegaly.
I remember things that way.