I was wondering if anyone out there has gone through it.

Here is what it is.

After a prolonged period of steroid use (for me it was severe asthma
that got worse after influenza that almost put me in the hospital),
the steroid is removed gradually, but with addison's or secondary the
adrenals don't come up and eventually the doctors think you might
have diabetes, thyroid and MS. Not nessessarily all at once or in
that order. The adrenal suppression gets so bad it no longer looks
like adrenal suppression, but the diseases mentioned.

1 in 5 Addison's patients are diagnosed with Addison's after going
through this which means only 1 in 500,000 people have this happen to
them.

At first I had 50% of diabetes and 50% of thryoid symptoms then went
away then a few months later came back then went away again then the
symptoms of MS came on very quickly and within 3 months I had 90% of
the symptoms (way more than you need to have MS) and I figured that
was what it was the whole time and I'm going to die soon.

It misteriously went away. 8 months later I figured this out after
reading about it on the net. I had never given up the possibility
that the steriods caused adrenal suppresion (doctors kept saying
steroids can't do that)and I keeped reading and researching it and
the found a web page that mentioned Severe Adrenal Suppression in a
short paragraph and also said that it can only happen if you have
Addison's.

If any of you went through this over up to a 2 year period or so and
did not know what happened to you -- well, now you know.

Do a search for Severe Adrenal Suppression and most likely you won't
find it.

Chris in St. Louis