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Shannon G., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

I use to wonder how many diseases it would take before I’d be placed into The Guinness Book of World Records. In nine years, I’d been diagnosed with clinical depression, high blood pressure, type II diabetes, PCOS, endometriosis, obesity, adult cystic acne, ocular hypertension leading to possible glaucoma, sarcoid uveitis, metabolic disease, and panic attacks. This is the same person who just a few years prior had been a cheerleader, worked out sometimes twice a day, taught Jazzercise, and used free time biking, walking or roller blading along the lakefront downtown Chicago.… Continue Reading

Beth B., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

Like so many of the other Cushing’s stories, similarly my story starts with years of odd health problems, numerous doctors, no one believing there really was a problem, to finally gaining a great deal of inner strength to believe in myself. Looking back now at pictures from over 10 years ago, we can now see when Cushing’s Disease started for me. In my early 20’s, previously having always been so thin, I gained small increments of weight … Continue Reading

Laurie O., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

I was diagnosed at the age of 15 by a nurse practitioner who noticed my moon face and hump back. I had lost a lot of hair and wasn’t eating hardly anything. I didn’t want my Mom to find out I wasn’t eating, but I kept gaining weight. For about a year I had trouble sleeping and skipped my period for six months. My first surgery … Continue Reading

Natalie F., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery, Gamma Knife

Hi! I am 31 years old, a Marine wife, and I was diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome in February, 1990. I began to have problems during the summer of ’89. After many doctors visits for many different problems, I was told by a Dermatologist at Camp LeJeune, NC that I looked Cushingnoid. He called in Internal… Continue Reading

Lane W., Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

I am 3 years past successful pituitary surgery and almost a year off cortisone. Yet even with all of the continuing symptoms, lack of strength, and days of chronic hurt and depression, I’m considered “cured!!”… Continue Reading

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