• Patient feels early fatigue with a minimum work done.
• Patient starts losing weight due to his loss of appetite.
• Patient experiences weakness in muscles.
• Due to weakness in muscles, patient develops joint and muscle pain and also difficulty in standing and sitting.
• Patient experiences lowering in his blood pressure, especially when one stands from the sitting position. This is also called as orthostatic hypotension.
• Due to excessive loss of sodium in urine, patient might develop craving for salty foods.
• Patient develops hyper pigmentation of the skin, i.e. skin becomes dark and it is mostly on skin folds and inside the cheek.

In severe cases, where addison’s disease go undiagnosed, an emergency situation might develop and need immediate hospitalization and is characterized by:-

• Sudden onset of stabbing pain in the legs and back.
• Patient suffers from vomiting and diarrhoea.
• Patient might lose his consciousness.
• There would be a sudden drop in blood pressure.
• Speech of the patient become slurred and might experience convulsions.