Addison's Disease Symptom Quiz
This quiz can help you review symptom patterns that may be worth discussing with a healthcare professional, including fatigue, dizziness, salt cravings, skin darkening, digestive symptoms, and adrenal hormone testing. It is designed for education and preparation, not diagnosis.
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- See how fatigue, dizziness, salt cravings, and digestive symptoms fit together.
- Get testing discussion points for cortisol, ACTH, electrolytes, aldosterone, and related biomarkers.
- Learn which patterns may need routine follow-up versus urgent attention.
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This quiz is for health education only and does not diagnose Addison's disease, adrenal insufficiency, or any other condition. If you have severe weakness, confusion, fainting, severe vomiting, severe abdominal pain, or symptoms that feel sudden or dangerous, seek urgent medical care.
Addison's disease is a rare condition in which the adrenal glands do not make enough cortisol and aldosterone. These hormones help control stress response, blood pressure, blood sugar, sodium, and potassium balance.
Cortisol helps your body respond to stress, maintain blood pressure, regulate blood sugar, and manage inflammation. When cortisol is too low, you may feel weak, dizzy, nauseated, or unable to handle illness or physical stress normally.
In the United States, most cases are caused by an autoimmune reaction that damages the adrenal glands. Other causes include infections, bleeding into the adrenal glands, cancer that spreads to the adrenal glands, certain genetic conditions, or adrenal gland removal.
Addison's disease is primary adrenal insufficiency, meaning the problem is in the adrenal glands themselves. Secondary adrenal insufficiency happens when the pituitary gland does not make enough ACTH to tell the adrenals to produce cortisol. Addison's disease usually affects both cortisol and aldosterone, while secondary adrenal insufficiency mainly affects cortisol.
Low aldosterone can cause the kidneys to lose too much sodium in urine. Salt cravings may be the body's response to low sodium or fluid-balance problems, especially when paired with thirst, low blood pressure, or dizziness.
Common symptoms include extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, weight loss, low appetite, dizziness when standing, low blood pressure, salt cravings, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, belly pain, and darker skin in scars, skin folds, gums, or pressure points.
Clinicians diagnose Addison's disease with medical history, exam findings, and blood tests. The ACTH stimulation test is often used to see whether cortisol rises appropriately after synthetic ACTH. Doctors may also check ACTH, electrolytes, glucose, aldosterone, renin, and adrenal antibodies.
Testing may include morning cortisol, ACTH, sodium, potassium, chloride, carbon dioxide, glucose, aldosterone, plasma renin activity, DHEA-S, and adrenal antibodies. A healthcare professional decides which tests fit your symptoms and medical history.
A morning cortisol result can provide useful information, but it usually does not confirm Addison's disease by itself. If results are low or symptoms are concerning, a clinician may order follow-up testing such as an ACTH stimulation test and electrolyte testing.
Seek urgent medical care for severe weakness, confusion, fainting, severe abdominal or back pain, persistent vomiting, severe dehydration, or loss of consciousness. These symptoms can occur with adrenal crisis or other emergencies and should not wait for routine testing.
Yes. Low aldosterone and low cortisol can contribute to low blood pressure, dizziness, and lightheadedness when standing. These symptoms can also have many other causes, so they should be reviewed with a healthcare professional.
Yes, primary adrenal insufficiency can cause skin darkening, especially in scars, skin folds, gums, elbows, knees, or pressure points. This happens because ACTH can rise when the adrenal glands are not making enough cortisol.
Untreated Addison's disease can worsen over time and may lead to an adrenal crisis, which is life threatening. Low blood pressure, dehydration, low sodium, high potassium, low blood sugar, severe weakness, vomiting, and confusion can occur.
Addison's disease usually cannot be cured, but it can often be managed effectively with lifelong hormone replacement therapy under medical care. Many people live active lives when treatment and monitoring are well managed.
Many people begin to feel better within days to weeks after appropriate treatment begins, but recovery varies. Dose adjustments, electrolyte correction, illness plans, and regular follow-up with a healthcare professional are often needed.