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So before CRENESSITY,

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I was constantly going back and forth

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to my endocrinologist

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and it was really frustrating.

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It was always too much of something,

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too little of something else.

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Taking CRENESSITY has lowered my androgens

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and decreased the amount of steroids I'm taking.

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I've been on high dose steroids

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my whole life before I started CRENESSITY.

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It was really impacting my health.

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I got high blood pressure,

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type two diabetes,

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all the weight gain,

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and the mood changes with the high dose steroids.

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It was really hard on me and on my body.

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I’ve experienced the puffy face,

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sleepless nights,

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the hot flashes.

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When you're growing up, there’s always

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there's a stigma of looking a certain way,

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trying to maintain a weight.

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And it's like fighting one thing with the other.

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My endocrinologist didn't have much knowledge of [CAH],

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it’s a pretty rare medical condition.

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So I took it into my own hands

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to try to see if there were other options.

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I was researching online

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and I came across the CAHtalyst study.

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I was super excited because

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I hadn't heard anything other than

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what I have heard from my physician about CAH.

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So I’ve been on CRENESSITY

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almost three years, I believe.

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It's lowered my androgens

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and it’s helped me significantly

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reduce the amount of steroids I’m on.

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Now that I’m at a lower dose, I sleep a lot better.

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My doctor, she let me know that

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the most common side effects of CRENESSITY in adults include

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tiredness, headache,

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dizziness, joint pain,

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back pain, decreased appetite,

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and muscle pain.

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So before I started the CAHtalyst study,

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I hadn't had a menstrual cycle in about 15 years,

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so it’d been a long time.

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And being a woman

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and not having a menstrual cycle,

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it didn't make me feel normal in a sense.

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And once I started CRENESSITY,

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I was able to experience that again

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and it brought back a sense of femininity to me.

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It’s really given me a new outlook on life.