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Pituitary Tumor; A Pain in the Head

my neurosurgeon removing my pituitary tumor

Ever since I was ten years old I had carried a diagnosis of a chronic, incurable disease called gastroparesis.  Really my issues started at age eight and become undeniable around age nine, but back then everyone wanted to blame my GI symptoms on things like stress, control issues, behavior problems or even eating disorders. At that point, there was no mention of any pituitary tumor.

At age 19, I found out that I also had a brain tumor growing on my pituitary gland.   My kidney doctor, Dr. Green, had ran test after test on me, swearing she’d figure out what was wrong with me until on a whim she ran a 24-hour urine collection for cortisol and creatinine on me,

She didn’t expect to find much, as my blood levels of cortisol were normal, but she had exhausted all other options and knew something was wrong with me.  Dr. Green Find Out What Happens Next

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The Medical Mystery To Be Uncoded

From the time I was nine my entire life had consisted of medical appointments after medical appointments. By the time I was nine and a half I had been misdiagnosed with an eating disorder, and at age ten I passed out in an elevator and was sent to the hospital for my first hospitalization and first feeding tube.

My first feeding tube was an NG tube. It stayed in the whole month that I was being stabilized on the medical unit. On the medical unit, I was put on specialized IV fluids, hooked up to a heart monitor, a blood pressure monitor, and an oxygen monitor. The hospital discovered that I had been in acute kidney failure and had to nurse my kidneys back to health.

After a month in the medical unit, I was finally pronounced medically cleared and was transferred to the pediatric psychiatric unit with the NG … Find Out What Happens Next

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