I went on DHEA about a year post op at the suggestion of my acupuncturist and have been on it for about9 months now. She suggested the 7Keto-DHEA because it does not convert the androgen hormones such as testosterone into the symptoms such as facial hair, etc. What I discovered was that at 100mg i was able to wean down 20 mg of cortisone in 6 months. I had a pituitary tumor removed 9/00 and didn't start weaning till 7 months post op due to many complications. I had and still have severe mouth incisional pain and damage to nerve endings where they cut me to get to the tumor. After seeing my acupuncturist for about 7 months, his wife who has chrohns disease and has been on DHEA for years, 100-200mg daily, told me to start taking it. It is a precursor to the adrenal hormones. I started out at 12.5 mg per day and 2-3 days before I weaned I upped it to 25mg ,etc. till I got up to 100mg. Felt more energy, increased libido, suffered for only a few days instead of a few weeks. UCSF doctor's talked me into going back down to 50mg because I might grow facial hair. I explained to them and brought them the idiots, literature showing that the 7keto,DHEA does not cause the testosterone side effects of facial hair growth. My psychiatrist told me to wean back up to the 200mg when I'm ready to start weaning the cortef. I didn't wean for a long time because my kids brought so many flus home this year and I am on zoloft, an anti-depressant, when it kicks in and I'm feeling less depressed, I intend to go back up on the DHEA and start weaning again this summer, when they are out of school and the stress of that is off, off camping and resting and not a lot of responsibilities. So DHEA is great and has helped me tremendously. I'm sure I can find some literature if anyone is interested in more info. Val from California.