I first took my son to a pediatric endo because he had body odor and slight acne at 7 and I was panicking because my daughter had early puberty so (I thought) I knew the signs.  The first doctor said he had mild CAH based on the blood test but he didn’t want to treat him.  He said let’s wait and I will treat him if it gets worse.  So then I went to someone in Dr. New’s group (the guru of CAH) for a second opinion.  They thought he might be a carrier based on his labs and insisted on doing genetic testing.   I didn’t want to do it because I had a doctor willing to treat him and I knew if it turned out he was a carrier no one would treat him.  Which is what happened.  But then his bone age started advancing alot and first they put him on a different drug which didn’t work very well.  But my doctor is very nice and I was very persistant so we tried the cortef and things have been better.   Meaning the bone age slowed down and he’s been growing on and off fairly well.  I really had alot of naysayers (including people on this board) about treating a carrier, but for him, the cortef has been a pretty safe drug.