i've been experiencing symptoms of high cortisol for about 4-6 years. i finally went to my GP to get it checked out. bloodwork came back showing high cortisol. i've been sent for a CAT scan. GP isn't saying much but he says it might be a problem with my adrenal gland. i'm so worried that i have adrenal cancer. is that possible though if i've had symptoms for 4-6 years? if it had been developing for 4-6 would i be experiencing pain by now or some other serious symptom - because i've only been having mild symptoms of high cortisol. is there any way guessing for myself whether, if there is a tumour on my adrenal, it is cancerous or not? or arer cortisol-producing functioning tumours more likely to be canerous? so many questions, any info helps.
Of course high cortisol is a problem with the adrenal glands. But do not even start thinking about cancer... GPs do not say much. neither do specialists. When you say CAT, do you mean a CT scan? Before having cancer, they are lots of other problems with the adrenal glands. Wait for the result of the CAT (do you mean CT scan, no?) and let us know. You have excess cortisol. Some other people have too little cortisol...
It is awful doctors left you worried...with high cortisol it could be a number of things cushing disease is one of them have they checked thyroid to rule that out .
First, cancer is one of the least likely things it could be.
Cortisol is the body's natural anti-inflamatory [the synthetic copy of it is called hydrocortisone, which you may have heard about]. So maybe it is being produced as it should, simply because of a problem somewhere else. Or it could be this it could be that it could be the other. So please try not to worry about maybes and could bes.
The most important thing now is that you have got past the GP stage and have been referred to a specialist who has a load of training in this stuff. You have started to come out of the tunnel.