Also the endocrinologist needs to test first and foremost the pituitary adrenal axis, this is the ability of the pituitary to tell the adrenals when to put out important cortisol during
stress, this is tested with an acth stim
test-takes about 2 hours and is really important. The other things to monitor include thyroid as the pituitary tells the thyroid to get going. Also growth hormone and later in life puberty(but lets not worry about that yet!