Pituitary Ademoaner

Well hello there! Another pause in my updates, but this time a legitimate one - I was on holiday! The lovely boyfriend and I went glamping i...

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...

Well, I also heard back from endocrinology yesterday; turns out that they too managed to bugger up my appointments. So the pituitary clinic...

Yesterday I went into the hospital to have some blood tests done - sodium levels and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels. I got the results t...

Regular readers - and anyone who's ever had a roast dinner with me - will be aware of my aversion to Brussels sprouts . I might go so fa...

It's National Pituitary Awareness Month , and I thought I should look for an interesting pituitary-related story to tell you all. As it ...

And I'm back! Apologies for another long delay. I have not forsaken you, dear reader. As you may remember, I started a new job in Septem...

I've always had a problem with the phrase "caught like a rat in a trap". I feel it could be improved upon. Rats are smart. Rat...

Up until recently, I had never heard of scintillating scotoma , but my boyfriend is an occasional sufferer - and although that is not so fun...

Kudos to my lovely boyfriend for this very interesting link to a website created by an Italian man with brain cancer, who requested copies ...

My god! Apparently I haven't published a post since the 31st of August and it's now the 8th September! I am well behind schedule. In...

Apologies for the lack of blogging of late, I have been on holiday! I cunningly set my Interesting Medical Fact of the Week to automatically...

Exciting news that a French research study may have found a way to allow HIV-infected people to avoid developing full-blown AIDS . In the st...

Today's Interesting Medical Fact of the Week is about lipodystrophy , defined by the ever-noble Wikipedia as "a medical condition c...

Holy lord! Who would have thought, when I agreed to go into hospital for all this testing, that the experience would prove to be such a rich...

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

I know what you're all thinking after yesterday's post. Maybe I was just a genuinely awful tenant and this poor innocent landlady wa...

I was originally going to name this post something else, but in deference to my readers who have delicate constitutions, I decided against i...

Long time no blog! I apologise profusely, please forgive me. I blame exams and the subsequent having-of-fun after them. Anyway. Resuming reg...

I am in fact on holiday this week, but as I'm so dedicated to this blog I thought I'd type up an Interesting Medical Fact of the Wee...