What are the first signs of addisons crisis?

17 Jul 2012

Acute adrenal crisis (Addisons crisis) is a life-threatening condition that occurs when there is not enough cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal glands.

It can occur when treatment with steroids such as prednisone or hydrocortisone is stopped too quickly or too early.

Symptoms include:

Abdominal pain
Confusion or coma
Darkening of the skin
Dehydration
Dizziness or light-headedness
Fatigue
Flank pain
Headache
High fever
Joint pain
Loss of appetite
Loss of consciousness
Low blood pressure
Nausea
Profound weakness
Rapid heart rate
Rapid respiratory rate (see tachypnea)
Shaking chills
Skin rash or lesions
Slow, sluggish movement
Unintentional weight loss
Unusual and excessive sweating on face or palms
Vomiting

If you think you are experiencing an adrenal crisis use your shot and seek medical attention at once.

17 Oct 2012

HI, I have been through 3 myself and a couple small ones. For me, and I do agree with the other post with the signs, my legs will start to hurt and not work. My calves will hurt and then my thighs, muscles, not joints. Then they will start to give out and I can not walk. Also I sleer my speech at the end of sentences. That is some of my signs. Then of course the whole drained feeling. So when I start dragging my feet I know to watch it.

I have more info I wrote on that if your interested at : livingwithaddisons.com which may help you.

Good luck to you, a crises is not fun and they are hard to go through.

Tesa

17 Oct 2012

If you think you are having an addisonian crisis you need to get to a doctor or hospital. You need to be treated with solucorteff immediately and control your pain and your potassium and sodium levels. You need to get saline with sodium in it and push it. Crisis is when your body is slowing or stopping and is shutting down. Your blood pressure and heart rate usually goes down and keeps going down. When I have had them I can not move and have extreme pain and everything is starting to slow down and stop. You have a hard time breathing and you can completely shut down. Get to a doctor now. Don't wait.

17 Oct 2012

If you are not close to an emergency center or medical help, by all means use you shot of solucortef. Should be around 100mg. Also like I said when you start into a crisis you can not move or have a hard time moving and standing or walking. You feel like you are passing out. It's a real weird feeling, and things are happening around you and you can't respond and you feel like you are in a fog so to speak. Do not drive yourself. Do not just depend on your shots and not get treated. I have had numerous crisises and each one has landed me in the hospital for at least 4 to 5 days and about every 8 hours given solucortef and fluids in my veins and monitored. I have had a crisis go from being okay to vomitting and not being able to move in about 15 to 20 minutes and ambulances called and being carried to the ambulance by firemen. I've also had one come over me in a couple of hours and I was able to feel it come on and tell my wife to drive me to the hospital. Good luck and god bless.