Sheri hi- I understand exactly what your frustration must be. I can NOT for the life of me understand why doctors are so reluctant to look into adrenal problems- I am suffering adrenal like dificiency symptoms and I have been put on prednisone for a couple of different things- for instance, I just has pit surgery and had to be on it- well guess what? Yep- the symptoms practically dissappeared. I told My endo this and her response is 'well, since your cortisol levels are 'normal' (Normal low) then it must be another problem- we've done all we can for you endocrinologically' & just like that she sent me on my way- wasn't even willing to due the testing necessary to find out what the problem is- she just wrote it off because my cortisol levels were 'normal'. I am exhausted/worn out & only 40 years old. I feel like I'm 90. I try to tell the docs this and they just don't understand and treat me like I'm just exxaggerating and or lazy. VERY very frustrating. Last November, after 14 long years of complete run-down condition, I was on the internet and ran across a site for adrenal fatigue- I wrote down every symptom & took it to my Doc in town and said "I've been saying for years that something other than my Crohn's disease was going on and I think I now know what' Turns out htough that I had a pit tumor after some tests were done & have acromegally (Which does have many of the sasme symptoms of adrenal fatigue) I had surgery this past March, but am still very run down- after the surgery, they had me on 15 mg of steroids, then upped it to 20 mg & I was just starting to feel quite a bit better when my endo called and told me to start weaning off them because the tests indicated my cortisol was 'fine' . I tried to expalin to her that I was just starting to feel better & you know what her response was? "Of course you are because it's a steroid' What???>!!! I just want to scream. My thought is 'yeah? So, if steroids make me feel half normal again, doesn't that indicate that my problem might be a difficiency even though my tests are 'normal'?' I have to go see her next month & my gosh- if she aint willing to look more htoroughly into what is wrong I'm gonna flat out tell her that since she isn't willing to take my complaints seriously, then I'm going to have to find an endo who will- 14 years is a LONG time to feel so crappy & to have Docs just shrug their shoulders & write me off. So yes, I can sympathise with your perdicament. Hopefully you can resolve this with your endo- I sure haven't been able to yet though | 