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I would add that I have MACS Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion. Discovered about June, 2021. I had benign growths on both adrenal glands and both were producing cortisol resulting in an excess. I had one adrenal gland removed in August, 2024. It still didn't result in adrenal insufficiency. By then the damage from excess cortisol had been done leaving me with foot drop from nerve damage due to being pre-diabetic. Actually I sort of self diagnosed diabetic neuropathy just from the type of chest pain on the left side. Hard to sort it all out when so many things go wrong at once. Had I known about the hypercortisolism way earlier it might have been a different story.

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Interesting. I have both venous insufficiency and non diabetic neuropathy. I also had Cushing's Disease, caused by a pituitary tumor which was removed 10 years ago (unfortunately, dealing with recurrence now). It took 5- 6 years to diagnose CD initially and this is the time period when both the VIS and PN both started. So while no doctor has said so, I believe both were brought on by symptoms of CD.