Story from an Addisons husband

Hi,

I thought people might be interested in hearing my story as a husband of someone who has Addisons Disease.

If you dont know, then addisons disease is where the sufferer can no longer create their own cortisone steroid and their body cannot control the amount of sodium or potassium salt in their blood stream.

We discovered all this when my wife began to feel very weak (actually sitting on the floor in a department store while queueing to pay - very embarrassing for our children!).

That evening we called the doctor and she was rushed into hospital with ultra-low blood pressure. A quick shot of steroid and she began to recover very quickly.

Now she is on pills for life but lives a pretty well normal life.