Since I was a young teen I have had endocrine problems. I was diagnosed at 13 with PCOS. I have seen an endocrinologist every 6 months since that time, I am now 39 years old. I spent all of my teen and younger years on a cocktail of medications for PCOS- birth control, spironolactone, metformin,… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Patient Stories
Michelle B
Date: April 8, 2022 | Tags: anxiety, cardiologist, Cyclical, eating habits, female, hypertension, infections, pcos, Pituitary tumor, Transsphenoidal surgery
Kate W
Date: April 8, 2022 | Tags: cabergoline, depression, female, Gamma Knife, ipss, isturisa, ketoconazole, metyrapone, Pituitary tumor, recurrence, Transsphenoidal surgery
For years I fought my weight. Every year my PCP would encourage more exercise or healthy foods. In college, although I was playing softball and working out daily, I still gained. Then at once, I went up 50 more pounds and being the heaviest I have ever been, something had to give. My PCP went… Continue Reading
Amanda P
It’s tough to know where to begin. The more I find out about Cushing’s, I think about symptoms I myself dismissed for years, or blamed other things. I found ways to cope. I had one pregnancy to term, it was a horrible pregnancy. I vomited the entire pregnancy, honestly the only time in my adult… Continue Reading
Joanna
Date: April 8, 2022 | Tags: anxiety, depression, exercise, female, fibromyalgia, naturopath, Pituitary tumor, Transsphenoidal surgery
I don’t exactly know when the little bugger in my head started to grow, but I sure know it caused a lot of troubles for me over the course of at least 5 years. I had been very active from about 2012 – 2016. After going through a messy and traumatic separation from my husband,… Continue Reading
Tina L
Date: April 8, 2022 | Tags: cabergoline, female, Pituitary tumor, recurrence, sublabial, Transsphenoidal surgery, weight bias
My name is Tina, and I was diagnosed with Cushing’s in March of 2013. I had a tumor removed from my pituitary gland on April 1, 2013. I was 46 years old. Twenty-seven years earlier, in April of 1986, I also had surgery to remove a large tumor from my pituitary gland. At that time… Continue Reading
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