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...

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...

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...

Well, I attempted to get to the hospital on Friday for the blood tests I needed, but unfortunately my endocrinologist was in meetings all mo...

I moved back to my house on Sunday! I'd been staying with my parents after being discharged from hospital post-surgery, because I was ba...

Once I woke up after my endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma resection surgery (that's what they called it on the forms!) I had...

Going Under So I was wheeled into the little anteroom by the operating theatre; the connecting doors were open so I could see into the ma...

?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 before having my pituitary surgery, I went for a pre-operative assessment at the hospital, which mainly involves blood tests, sitting ar...

Aloha! I'm typing to you from the sofa in the front room of my parents house, on my beloved laptop Larry (who, incidentally, I received ...

When I got my appointment to see the ENT people, I learned a new word. Not panjandrum (although that is another new word I learned recently ...

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 ...

So there's quite a lot of catching-up to do, given that I have been a bad pituitary blogger for the past month and a half and yet quite ...

Some time ago, I received an appointment from the hospital for an MRI scan on the 31st October. I immediately - and diligently - phoned them...

Regular readers will be unsurprised to hear that I still have not heard back from the hospital about, you know, getting my surgery arranged ...

I went to the hospital on the first of October to have my latest lanreotide injection. It feels like ages ago now! They're a long-acting...

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...

A story broke some time ago about a young lady with acromegaly who sued the NHS, and won. I've been meaning to write about her for a whi...

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...