Hope for Something Serious

February 6th, 2010 admin

At 11pm Thursday, I took 1mg of dexamethasone. It’s a synthetic steroid that acts like cortisol in the body. A normally functioning endocrine system will stop making it’s own cortisol when this drug is taken. A cushingoid one will show no difference with active dexamethasone.


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