Pituitary Ademoaner

So I made it to the hospital on Thursday for my appointment, and it went about as well as I could have hoped for. First stop: getting weighe...

 Aloha! Long time no blog I know, profuse apologies all round. Partially I have been lazy, partially I have been working on other projects a...

Had a phone call from my endocrinologist today. On the 22nd January, I had blood tests done to check out my serum osmolality , which basical...

?Aloha! Had a good day today and yesterday. I have managed a gentle potter around the village and a hot chocolate at the local pub with my d...

So while I don't wish to make everyone feel as nauseated as these injections sometimes make me, I found a film of transphennoidal endosc...

Regular readers will remember that earlier in the year I was lamenting the fact that my stupid GP's forced me to change GP surgery after...

This is the fourth part of the story about my overnight stay in the hospital's research department, having lots of tests to look at th...

Subtitle: You have nothing to lose but your goitres! So here's the strange thing: I have a TSHoma - a pituitary tumour which secretes ...

I had been holding off posting for a few days, not out of laziness,* but because I was waiting to find out the outcome of my hospital appoin...

I found an article on a website which lists the characteristics of thyrotropinoma (a.k.a TSH-oma, a.k.a the kind of pituitary tumour I have,...

I've just been reading about a drug called Pasireotide . It's been around for a while, but on January 23rd this year, the European M...

My poor little blog is really looking quite neglected! Fortunately I had a trip to the hospital yesterday. To see a doctor, I mean, not just...

It's been a while since I wrote the last post about my previous attempts at diagnosis , so I decided to man up and get the heck on with...

Now, as you may or may not have noticed, I am of the female persuasion . And one of the irritating things about this is that, when you get a...

...and not just because I've applied the wrong shade of fake tan .* Yesterday, while working hard at work/deleting all the pointless e...

Being a blogger with a TSHoma (a.k.a. TSH-oma,* a.k.a. thyrotropinoma, a.k.a. a freak) has its pros and cons. On the plus side, as far as I...

Apologies for my lack of posting lately! I have been doing exams. They are now over, and my new excuse is that it's Christmas (in case y...

When I was a very small child, a combination of my bad hearing and an obsession with ponies meant that I thought the classic Yes song Owner...

I have long since realised that different people have different levels of interest in what the hell is actually wrong with me anyway, but un...