Hello Group,
I am Jerry and I am 42y/o Man, married 3 children, 2 dogs, and a
partridge in a pare tree. Well, OK, It's actually a Mourning Dove
on
my patio. But it is there.

I know that there are many names for this syndrome and everyone
claims to know about it but no on really does. It's more like they
know of it, but only treat it with supportive drugs.

What I have, my Endocrinologist calls;
Polyglandular Deficiency Syndrome Type II

But like I said it goes by many names.

It also took over 12 years for the Doctors to diagnose! You see,
the family doctors think Men are not supposed to have endocrine
issues. Especially this type, if they even remembered it from
medical school that is.

Here is an example of why it took so very long.
For me "a man having severe night sweats" meant TB not menopause.

Symptoms would come and go and they wouldn't make sense to the
doctors. That was because there were more than just one thing going
on at the same time.

So they started to think I was nutty as a fruit cake.
Well it was driving me there as no one believed me and I was
not making any of it up. It was and is very real.

Finally after 12 years I had gone to an endocrinologist that I
had seen in the very beginning of this all when I had a thyroid
goiter removed. "from Hashimotos disease"

He came into the room and said, "Jerry welcome to menopause."

I started to laugh but he was serious, and that was when
I found out what all was going on...

(You see, my family Doc had convinced me that he could easily manage
my thyroid condition and therefore I didn't need the
Endocrinologist.)
He, later, took me off of my Synthroid even though I felt like I
was hit by a truck. I was told my numbers were close enough that I
didn't need it. "I found out much later other wise."

Now I take 13 pills a day and an injection every other week.

That is the readers digest version of the whole story.

Jerry