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It's not reliable because so many folks with Cushing's have elevated CBG and even those with florid cases often do not test positive on urine or saliva. Your last comment is an overinterpretation and a complete non sequitir. My concern is its any single test's potential use to rule Cushing's out, not that it shouldn't be used to diagnose it. I have no disagreement that such a meter is a good thing. Zula, I'm in complete agreement with your comments.
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I see it as a much bigger problem than sometimes or merely disproportionate. But I completely agree that the more tools we have the better. But not if they lay a claim to saliva as anything approaching reliability.
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You don't see the belief that saliva and serum testing produce equal and reliable results as an issue? That's not an argument against having a meter, it's a concern about test result interpretation.
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Wow. Congratulations and THANKS.
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The only problem is the statement that saliva adequately tests cortisol levels and correlates well with serum testing. :-/
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Doctors take the data directly from the meters, using a cable connection during office visits. Or at least it's an option. But I cannot imagine why they wouldn't accept the same info about cortisol meters that they accept from diabetics.
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Some blood glucose meters have downloadable data collection that some endos check monthly or quarterly as part of their diabetes monitoring. No reason for them not to be convinced or accepting of the same kind of data from a cortisol meter, since they're already used to relying on them in this way, IMO.
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There's another potentially profitable avenue to pursue, though where the numbers are huge. We know that a significant % of those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually have undiagnosed hypercortisolemia, and in hospitals, this is the group with the worst outcomes and diabetic damage. Testing all DMs with cortisol and glucose meters for screening routinely could prevent/avoid a lot of diabetes damage before it occurs, saving money, and selling cortisol meters.
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can't figure out how to edit my signature
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I found the settings link, but it's all GEEK to me after that!
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I think you just go to the forum/thread with your name and post a reply at the bottom with the new info. I thought that's how I did mine.
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I think we're not supposed to post with long signatures, so we're supposed to just show the link to our sigs, which are stored elsewhere. MaryO said all the long sigs were taking up too much bandwidth. Some of them are tomes. ;-)
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The problem with the edema caused by that class of drugs isn't just weight and congestive heart failure. The edema is system wide so there are vision problems/damages, etc. Now that these drugs are being advised against for DMs, expect them to be hunting around for new indications to keep them profitable.
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I don't think it's actually difficult to diagnose, I think it's difficult to get someone to *consider* diagnosing it. NOT rare, just rarely diagnosed.
