Lynn, Thank you for your encouragement!! It's been just a few months and I know that we will hopefully get this dialed in closer. I think it will be interesting to see where her next draw comes out. After 6 weeks at 10 mg per day her 17 Hydroxen went from 590 to 40, then we went to 5 mg per day, a week later she ended up in the hospital for a couple of days. Now she's on 5 mg in a.m. and 2.5 mg at night, we're going to try that for a month then re test. I was feeling guilty about being worried a bout the weight gain, because in the big picture...I thank God that this isn'y worse. Your words of encouragement sure made me feel ok to be human...A friend of mine tells me that my problem is that I am just starting to understand what the word cronic means, maybe. Anyway, thank you for the hug. Karen