Pituitary Ademoaner

Aloha! It's been another age since I've written in here! My apologies. I thought I'd pop by to give you a quick update. Way bac...

I've been out of the world for a little while thanks to my surgery, so I was saddened to find out only today that Tanya Angus, an acrom...

So, back to the story of my various experiences way back in November! A mere two months late... On the 5th November, I had an appointment ...

Hola! Well, I'm just back from a spot of festive carol singing at the local pub with my whole family in tow, and I thought: what better ...

Last Thursday was my latest trip to hospital. My mum came with me, which was nice - she often tries to make it over for the more "impor...

Before going into hospital last Tuesday, I stopped off at one of my favourite cafes for a hot chocolate, as a pre-hospital treat. I wasn...

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...

 I turned up at the hospital at 2pm on Tuesday and met up with the endocrinologist who's been in charge of arranging the series of tests...

In relation to last night's post: Panic over! Turns out the darn thing is completely waterproof after all and I should have just left it...

This continues the story from my previous post about the pre-operative assessment I had before going into hospital for transsphenoidal pitu...

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...

On Tuesday morning at 10.15 I had my latest lanreotide injection, and as the initial decision was that I would have them for three months an...

After meeting my pituitary surgeon Mr Pout, I was trundled off to have my pre-operative assessment . The NHS wesbite describes pre-operative...

My first piece of advice for patients about to undergo transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: when they invite you to the hospital to "meet...

I can't believe that it's March already! This time last year, I was in a flurry of nervousness, waiting to find out the date of my p...

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...

Last week I wrote about the first of two websites which got me thinking about acromegaly, and I've been thinking away all weekend. The ...

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...