Cortisol test

So I had to get a pre-operative Cortisol test done.

This is because when operating on the pitituary gland, the surgeons need to make sure that they hormones produced in the gland can keep your adrenal glands pumping and maintain your bodies ability to cope with the trauma of surgery.

The way they test this is to inject you with insulin and crash your blood sugars which then in turn causes a response of cortisol being released in order to counteract the stress of too much insulin.

This test is taxing.

It's what diabetics feel like when they don't eat enough and take too much insulin. Shakes, sweats, heart racing, tiredness.

My body was pretty resilient and kept rallying before they could get the sugars low enough.

The nurses would then have to inject me with even more insulin.

One nurse said she'd never injected anyone with this much insulin before.

Anyway, it worked and the cortisol levels were fine. My adrenalin is a-okay.