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...

Around a year or so ago, an interesting thing happened to me. I was in the car with my mother, we were driving down the motorway, and there ...

Today's Interesting Medical Fact of the Week is about thyrotoxic periodic paralysis , a curious malady occurring mainly in men of Japane...

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...

I noticed on the Pituitary Foundation's website that a drug trial is recruiting for acromegaly patients. It's the phase 3 testing...

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,...

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...

So it turns out that by far my most popular post on this blog so far is the one entitled " Russell Watson, It's Not All About You ...

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

Today I thought I'd continue my story of diagnosis and treatment, admittedly with a slight gap in continuity from my last post , by tal...

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...

One of those occasions where I wrote the post title first, then went "hmm" and sat back, doubtfully stroking the beard I don't...