Thanks for the imput M1!!
Wow, you are "flexible" too!! I cannot do that, I don't think... but my elbows, my ankles, my fingers, my hips and the length of my spine are loose fitting so-to-speak. My spine causes me pain, cause it won't stay put!! From there a plethora of other pains that radiate from my spine from inflammation and pinched nerves, yeow!! I don't know if there' much to be done about that though...
I'm suppose to take 10mg morning, 5mg noon, and 5mg evening... but I often forget the last one and sometimes my noon too. I'm trying to be better about it. There were periods of time I couldn't afford it at all...
so I dunno if my symptoms would be from missed doses or just CAH itself. I honestly am just now realizing a lot of my other symptoms (besides lack of periods for months and excess hair growth that I knew of) are related to my CAH. Like being overwhelmingly tired in the evening, body odor, somewhat enlarged clitoris, my fairly short stature of 5'4", my round pregnant-looking belly, anxiety and depression, eczema...
and reflecting back, I do remember a growth spurt at age 8 where I looked like I aged about 10 years from my 3rd grade picture til my 4th grade one (I looked a lot more like my mom, actually!). It left me with little self-esteem way into my teens and even somewhat now. I never felt "right" around people of my age group, unless I was taking care of them like a mother-sorta.
I was also quite surprised to read of others here having homosexual attraction or tendencies. I wasn't much of a tom-boy (more so artsy), but I knew I was attracted to women when I was around age 8 and, in my teens, began to collect friends who questioned their orientation... but I never did anything more than "petty" with another girl. But I was honest about it, and never felt wrong about that, thankfully.
And you are right, my doctors would never tell me this stuff, they don't know or have time to... but now I am home.
