I spotted it on Chewy

FWIW, it seems the nurse is confusing *Primary* Adrenal Insufficiency (in this case Addison’s) with *Secondary* Adrenal Insufficiency (specifically Glucocorticoid Induced Adrenal Insufficiency). www.endocrine.org/clinical-pra...

I’m sure you’ve gotten lots of people saying you should request a different nurse. And they are absolutely correct. But I’d go further than that. This nurse needs to be reported to the agency. Because the ‘advice’ she is giving you is not just wrong, it’s *dangerous*, and could even kill.

Yay floofy tail kitty!

Yep. But if the heat map itself becomes part of the medical record, then you have cold hard data to disprove that. It’s no longer he-said-she-said

Yuuuup. And like anything else, it won’t do shit if the doctors don’t use it

Hard to claim it’s psychosomatic or some shit when the area is lighting up like Big Ben. On the other hand, for the neuropathies where there’s pain but *not* inflammation, it’s another excuse to not take people seriously

Exactly. And it’s so much more accessible and straightforward than an MRIs or CT scans, or X-rays. No radiation, no issues with metal, no loud tube, no sedation, no need to not move for like half an hour. Could probably even be point-of-care.

And she’s explaining it, showing me the website and such, I’m just thinking *holy shit*, if/when this gets to human med, it has the potential to be an absolute game-changer for chronic illness, chronic pain, and many under-diagnosed conditions. It uses heat mapping to detect and locate inflammation

[Human] I know the feeling