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Help Raise Awareness for Addison's Disease

Organized by Heather Gibson
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Gildan Ultra Cotton T-shirt

Trying to raise some money to help raise awarness for this rare and life threatning disease

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All funds raised will go to Heather Gibson, the organizer for NADF to help raise awarness for Addison's Disease.
$140 raised
27 items sold of
100 goal
Thanks to our supporters!
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Gildan Ultra Cotton T-shirt, Unisex
Gildan Ultra Cotton T-shirt
Unisex
Organized by Heather Gibson

About this campaign

April is Addison's Disease awareness month so what better month to help raise awareness by getting some shirts out there. I will send a check off to the NADF (national adrenal disease foundation) so they can help spread the word. Addison's can effect 1 to 6 in 100,000 people. There is no cure and it can be fatal. We have to take medicine for the rest of our lives to live. It still can be very difficult on most days to do simple task like showering.


Addison's is so rare its very hard to diagnose. My symptoms started when I was 15, I was 25 when diagnosed. I went 2 years in and out of the hospital on my death bed. Two different times I was in and out of conciseness should of have been in a coma. I was loosing so much weight wasting away, slowly dieing. Thankfully March 28th 2013 I was in and out of conciseness and vomiting uncontrollably my husband took me to the Er where they diagnosed me with primary Addison's Disease (if they didn't catch it then I would be dead now) I stayed in the hospital a week. I am doing better after being diagnosed however I still struggle alot, and alot of even medical personal don't know about Addisons or how to treat it or how without our injection in a crisis we will DIE. So we need help getting awareness out there to help save lives.

A summery of Addison's..... What are adrenal hormones?
The adrenal glands are located on top of each kidney and normally produce three classes of hormones: glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, and androgens. Adrenal insufficiency occurs when the adrenal glands produce an insufficient amount of one or more of these classes of hormones.
The pituitary gland makes many hormones, including growth hormone and ACTH, a hormone which signals the adrenal glands to make cortisol, a hormone needed for life. If the adrenal gland doesn't make enough cortisol, replacement medications must be taken. The most common medicines used for cortisol replacement are:

Hydrocortisone
Prednisone
Dexamethasone

What is adrenal crisis?
Adrenal hormones are needed for life. The system that pumps blood through the body cannot work during times of physical stress, such as illness or injury, if there is a severe lack of cortisol (or its replacement). People who lack cortisol must take their cortisol replacement medication on a regular basis, and when they are sick or injured, they must take extra cortisol replacement to prevent adrenal crisis. When there is not enough cortisol, adrenal crisis can occur and may rapidly lead to death.
What are the symptoms of lack of adrenal hormones? If you don't have enough cortisol or its replacement, you may have some of these problems:

feeling weak
feeling tired all the time
feeling sick to your stomach
vomiting
no appetite
weight loss
confusion
muscle cramping
darkening of the skin (primary only)

When someone with adrenal gland problems has weakness, nausea, or vomiting, that person needs immediate emergency treatment to prevent adrenal crisis and possible death.

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Supporters

Debbie Smith 1 item

My daughter has addisons and there needs to be more awareness

malisha 1 item

Love Heathers idea and how she has worked so hard on this for all of us. I'm going to wear my shirt often to Raise Awareness.

Anonymous 3 items
MOM 1 item

My daughter fights Addison's Disease and the misinformation just to stay alive.

Caroline Joseph 1 item + $10

I'd like to help raise awareness for Addison's because I would like for the general public to have a better understanding of this rare, life threatening disease. So few even know what it is..

Kristen 1 item

Fighting adrenal insufficiency and the fight for Addisons Awarenrss! I had a bilateral adrenalectomy

Sherri 3 items

My daughter has Addison's and we need to raise awareness about how life threatening this disease is.

Deborah 1 item + $10

I have Addison's Disease. I would like to see more awareness to the disease.

Heather 1 item

Because I have Addisons Disease and want more people to know what this disease is

Sarah Stracener 1 item + $10

Heather Gibson

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