Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share my experience with everyone. Just to show that no two illnesses are really alike.

This has been a learning experience for me. So through the years my daughter that has SWCAH has had some throwing up "experience". Usually she throws up and we get the triple dose orally in her and she is great. Never throws up again. Last summer, she threw up, we got the triple dose in her but she continued to go down hill. Of course MY choice was to inject her and take her into the E.R. because she was looking so bad. (pale skin, darkened skin under eyes, lethargic) When I went to call the endocrinologist to tell him we were taking her in the E.R. and asked him to call ahead to prepare the E.R. my husband tripled her dose of Corfef. When I came back upstairs, I told him we needed to inject her and he said too late I tripled the dose of Cortef. Needless to say I wanted to slug him but I reluctantly agreed that it HAD worked in the past. My gut was screaming to inject, but kept reminding myself the oral dose worked in the past. (DUH! as she was going down hill in front of my face!) Dumb a--. So we wrapped her up and took her to the E.R. On the way to the E.R. she kept saying how thirsty she was and how tired she was, and how cold she was. Her skin was ICE cold to touch. I started to panic because we had quite the drive into town. I should have injected but thought I couldn’t because we had already tripled her dose of Corfef and this would cause an over dose. My endocrinologist told me later, that I SHOULD have injected her even though I tripled her dose orally. He said at her age, you cannot give too much for a crisis. Obvliously the oral does wasn’t working as she started to go into a crisis. So lesson learned, inject no matter what dose we just gave her if she is going into a crisis. I beat myself up emensly over it as you all remember last year. SO, this past Tuesday morning my daughter wakes up barfing. She threw up like 4 times in a row. Then stopped. I let her stomach settle and for her to get her self settled. She smiled and said she felt better. I waited a half hour to almost 45 minutes to triple her dose of Cortef. Her coloring was excellent, she was alert and happy. She sipped on some water and an hour later hopped out of bed wanting to go downstairs to watch cartoons. AMAZING. Two different expierences. Two different reactions to medications. GO FIGURE. She was fine but tired the rest of the day. She drank Gatorade her favorite drink all day and watched TV. She took an hour nap around dinner time since we were up so early. She was great. Then the next day I woke her for her 5:30 am pill and found she had a slight fever. She responded well to her stress dose and fell back asleep. She has been fine ever since. I decided to keep her home an extra day just so she can really rest up.

I just wanted to share that with you because it was amazing to me. Never assume, the viruses can be the same and your child will react the same way to every one. Have a healthy spring!