What does Elevated Cortisol Mean?

and it takes a long time before the real issues are discovered.
She looks through her own lab results & notices elevated cortisol
And self diagnoses ... accurately

Cushing's, pituitary tumor, etc
Normal range for cortisol was 25-108
Hers was coming in at 190

Also Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(what else is going on?)

Regardless of what you think is going on ...

(I think people should avoid 2-butoxyethanol)

Patient Heal Thyself a Book by Dr. Jordan S. Rubin, N.M.D., C.N.C, PhD (nutritionist) suggests good nutrition & glyconutrient food supplements -

a man who was dying of Crohn's

What are the brain tumor causing chemicals?

We have a woman in our town of Valdez, Alaska who has Cushing's & pituitary brain tumors. She goes to Seattle (twice so far) to have the tumors on the pituitary removed or radiated (?). I found out that her dad has family who worked in mills & manufacturing in WWII era and several family members have died of colon cancer; her dad was obese, but a very nice man. She, herself is slim 'n trim & did loose the extra weight. (What the doctor was prescribing, I don't know)

She also had direct exposure to 2-butoxyethanol as she and her husband owned a paint store, and she would mix the colors ... paint fumes in the eyes is bad news

An Air Force man shared with me that his daughter when she was in high school was a size 2 & then put on a lot of weight. (Also an acne type skin condition appeared) In her case it was adrenal cortical carcinoma & she died. Heartbreaking. Her dad now has diabetes (often seen with 2-butoxyethanol exposure ... I think it's in jet fuel) His buddy has a very serious diabetes situation

In both of these cases, something wrong with the adrenal gland/function.

2-butoxyethanol exposure in the family line &/or directly ... could be a contributing cause, if not THE cause. It is easy to get too much exposure to this chemical today, so learn about it, and protect your health by avoiding it as much as possible. If you get too much exposure, you will think you came down with the flu. After that, you would have symptoms that seem odd & unrelated, but they are the CFS, FM or Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome symptoms THESE

What about other glands/organs? the Endocrine system?

We need to look at the Big Picture

A Give your doctor the Big Picture
B Any of these health concerns?
C Similar list, just restated
D Suspected 'pattern of harm'
E

Those who've been affected by 2-butoxyethanol,

would have autoimmune issues - but not necessarily Cushing's & IBS

What about Addison's???

Autoimmune Addison's disease is an uncommon autoimmune disease, characterized by chronic and insufficient functioning of the outer layer of the adrenal gland. The adrenal glands are located atop each kidney and produce vital glucocorticoid hormones. Because of this chronic under-functioning of the adrenal glands, persons with Addison's disease have a deficiency in the production of glucocorticoid hormones. Glucocorticoid hormones are involved in how the body utilizes and stores carbohydrates, protein, fat and blood sugar.

I think that glyconutrients would/would have helped these
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June 22, 2006

I noticed an article about Caitlin Pugh, an 18 year-old Ohio college student who died in one day after ' FLU-like' Symptoms. They said she died of meningitis. First thing I wondered ... is Meningitis autoimmune? ... & then I wondered ...

Just because they find meningitis doesn't mean it was the cause of her death. Just as ... just because a virus is found in 'the flu' doesn't mean it is the virus that causes the flu, nor the resultant effects.

I wish I had more information. What else did the doctors find? What was going on when the flu started? For that violent a reaction ... what was the possible source of 2-butoxyethanol?

Was there an autopsy?

Do you think the family would share the tests the doctors took when she came to the hospital? I would suspect some other things going on, even an enlarged spleen ... & horrible FATIGUE. At the very least, they should ask for copies of all her medical results. And either review them themselves, or ask for someone to go over them. And, of course, ask the doctor for some more information & their full report

Do you think her friends could help out? What was going on in her life when the flu started?

This is only my own theory. However, if I'm right, the pattern of this chemical's harm would stand out like a Neon light. Problem is ... no one is looking for the pattern.

It is more probable that she died of acute autoimmune hemolytic anemia in which her immune system was killing off her red blood cells. Did she have the chills? Horrible headache? ... especially DIARRHEA? Was her urine black? ... or like jelly?

Well, it's not recognized in life.

So, why would the doctors know in death what all the factors were?

I just say, is the pattern of 2-butoxyethanol there?

A woman whose mother died of Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia when she was 8 ... saved her mom's medical records for thirty years. I'll look up what she shared with me on a discussion forum, and share it with you. That is more probably the cause of Caitlin's death than the meningitis.

Autosomal Recessive Ichthyoses - Harlequin Ichthyosis

Harlequin Ichthyosis

Two sets of sisters were documented last night on the TLC channel. The skin is our largest organ. When someone marries someone who also has the recessive gene ... this skin condition can occur. There are only about 100 cases. The skin is tight and restrictive; it grows every day about as much as people's skin would grow in 14 days.

There is concern for cracking (leading to infection). Loss of eyesight from eyelids scratching the corneas ... loss of fingertips from loss of circulation.

The two families lived in Britain where there are only 7 such cases. The Betts girls (one just turned 18) and the Bowen girls (one is still an infant).

I never saw anything like this ... or heard of it either.

They are looking for genetic, hereditary issues.

I would suspect a chemical poisoning of someone in the family line ...
Probably would wonder what their relatives did during D-Day