Hi Joey My daughter is now 15 and has CAH-non salt loser. Even though she is not considered a salt loser, she takes a florinef tab each morning with her prednisone. Your situation with the weight gain and the ear infections sounds all too familiar. I found that when I gave her extra cortisone because of the infections she invariably gained weight (cortisone can stimulate the appetite). My daughter was a swimmer from day one and I think most of the infections could be linked to that. The ped endo was very careful about measuring height/weight at each visit. She even arranged for us to see a dietician when the weight gain was beginning to cause concern. The dietician was exceptionally great. My daughter loved going to see her and we often arranged to see the ped endo followed up by the dietician. We continued to battle the extra weight issue all the time my daughter was on cortef. We understood the fact that the cortef was the better choice for trying to achieve maximum height.. so we lived with the fact that my daughter was a bit on the chubby side and tried not to make a big issue of it. When my daughter was 13, (figured she was as tall as she'd ever get) her meds were switched to prednisone. At that time, my daughter became even more interested in sports, and she trimmed her weight down considerably. Presently she is about 5'4 and weighs about 118lbs. I think it was a combination of the extra activity and switching meds. She also followed the weight watchers teen diet for a brief time. Several of my neices and nephews also have had recurrent ear infections and it was found that they have an allergy to milk products. I also know of a good friend's child who is also allergic to milk and had frequent ear infections. Each time I watched her give a bottle of milk to the child, his little cheeks flushed bright red. I mentioned this to her and she had him tested. Sure enough, he had a milk allergy. Once off dairy products, his ear infections stopped. He now drinks soy or rice milk instead.