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First of all, since you have a child with CAH, then you are definitely at least a carrier. There is current research that carriers can be symptomatic and need treatment. It would be very unusual for you to have LOCAH and have a child with SWCAH, but it's possible.
Usually LOCAH presents like PCOS, with androgen excess symptoms (acne, excess hair, irregular periods) and often women are diagnosed first with PCOS. (and you can have both, which really complicates matters). Sometimes there is a childhood history of precocious puberty. But for a diagnosis of PCOS, they should exclude other things which can cause excess androgens, like LOCAH. You would have to have lab work which showed elevated androgens and elevated 17 hydroxyprogesterone, which is what is diagnostic of LOCAH. It would be reasonable for you to ask for those things to be checked in you, since your daughter has been diagnosed.
