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Treatments for Addisons disease
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Tags: Addison's disease, weight loss, muscle weakness, fatigue, low blood pressure,
| | Treatment of Addison's disease involves replacing, or substituting, the hormones that the adrenal glands are not making. |
| | Cortisol is replaced orally with hydrocortisone tablets, a synthetic glucocorticoid, taken once or twice a day. |
| | If aldosterone is also deficient, it is replaced with oral doses of a mineralocorticoid called fludrocortisone acetate |
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