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Panel Discussions from 2014 National Cushing’s Patient Education Day

Editor’s Note: What follows is a transcription of selected questions and answers from well over 2 hours of panel discussions at National Cushing’s Patient Education Day, March 1, 2014. The panels included Dr. Adriana Ioachimescu (endocrinologist, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), Dr. Nelson Oyesiku (neurosurgeon, Emory University), Dr. Mary Lee Vance (endocrinologist, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,… Continue Reading

Second Annual Boise Glow For Cushing’s Awareness 5K, 2014

On a beautiful spring evening in Boise, Idaho, over 600 participants gathered at Julia Davis Park to participate in the second annual Boise Glow For Cushing’s Awareness 5K fun run and walk, or BO-GLO for short. Soundwave Music kicked off the event at 6 pm with a dance party at the park. Disc jockey, JT… Continue Reading

Leslie E., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

I am married and have two daughters, ages 6 and 17. We discovered that I had a pituitary tumor in the summer of 2012, and I had a series of surgeries between December 2012 and February 2013. My symptoms were unavoidable by spring 2012, but looking back, I think my tumor was starting to “zap” me in 2010 with bouts of acne, an irregular period, small amounts of weight gain, and general feelings of being unwell.… Continue Reading

Susan S., Adrenalectomy

I was a patient under the care of various endocrinologists being treated for “Subclinical Cushing Syndrome” since Oct 2010. In October 2010 while having an abdominal CT scan completed by a hospital emergency room for abdominal pain (unrelated to the “Subclinical Cushing Syndrome”), the CT showed several left adrenal gland adenomas. … Continue Reading

Dennis O., Pituitary Tumor

In February 2013 I was diagnosed with Cushing’s disease. Over the past 6 years, I have suffered from a variety of problems including Deep Vein Thrombosis and a Pulmonary Embolism, compressed fracture of the spine (probably due to osteoporosis)… Continue Reading

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