My Life With A Pituitary Gland Cyst

I got this information from visiting https://www.pacificneuroscienceinstitute.org/ Had a good read and figured I could share their page and some of the information I found there. Where is the pituitary gland located and what does it do? There is a pea-sized structure at the base of the brain called the pituitary gland. It doesn’t look like much and it could be easy to overlook, but don’t underestimate the power of the pituitary gland. Small, yet mighty, this “master endocrine gland” is part of the endocrine system and produces critical hormones that affect a whole host of functions in the body. Hormones made by the pituitary help control growth, blood pressure, certain functions of the sex organs, thyroid glands and metabolism as well as some aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, water/salt concentration and the kidneys, temperature regulation and pain relief. Pituitary adenomas are non-cancerous (benign), usually slow-growing tumors that develop on the pituitary gla...

Restricted and lonely. I've tried to do anything that I've come up with and that I would like to do if "I had alot of time on my hands". A day on the couch just listening to music, just sit down and read a book (or continue the ones I've started), cooking and baking for a whole day, tidy up my apartment to a satisfactory level, watch all the movies I still havent watched (no, it did not keep me from seeing Avengers: Endgame, but it did give me a massive headache so it was good we watched it at 11 at night), watch all those series people keep telling me to watch, learn to iron clothes (which I've tried twice. I'm not very good at it), write a blog (its currently 5th of May and its a month since I created the wordpress page). I've tried all of these and cooking was the only thing I could do for longer than 30 minutes except from watching Endgame. I've listened to music for the first time in 2 months and it gave me a stabbing headache after 10 minute...

Thank you to those who has supported me and continue to do so. Family. Friends. Doctors and N urses that show they care. That's right, not everyone does. I've always said that you can clearly see and hear the difference between a doctor that got the education and the job for money and those who did it all because they want to help people. A good example is the time I went to the doctor 2 or 3 years ago and I described the pain I had in my chest and he wrote something down on a yellow post-it and said "Go home and google this". No more questions and answers. Brushed me off and I went home to google. Another one is the nurse on the phone that sighed loudly and said "wait a minuteee" and put me over to someone else after already put me on hold twice. This was the day my first sick note ran out and I needed a new one. You can read more about this under "The Sick notes". There's also a saying "It's in times like this you dicover...

For the weeks after I got out of the hospital, I went to my grandparents since it was the best solution at the time. I also knew it would be the most quiet place to be for the time being. The car ride was... not amazing. I had to keep laying down since everything else but having my head in that position either made me throw up, really dizzy or the pain got worse. Saying that, I'm also stubborn and want to do things my way. In the car, my Grandfather put the passenger seat in the front down so I could be laying down. Grandma sat in the back watching over me. It was a 2 hour drive, but to be honest, it didnt feel that long. When we came to the town where I was going spend the next few weeks, Grandma had to go to the store, and of course I thought it sounded like a good idea to come with her inside. Specially looking like the grey skinned zombie that havent showered for over a week. Just a reminder; Mom helped me clean myself while laying in the hospital bed, so I didnt reek or sm...

In October 2005 I started using the contraceptive pill after being without it for several months and I had just gotten into a relationship. Less than a year later, I started getting headaches. At the time I thought it came from the job I had which was at a telephone company where I was sat infront of the computer all day. At the same time as I had that job, I started working as a chef in a restaurant. It was after all  what I was educated as, so I figured I'd give it a go at the restaurant 5 minutes away from where I already worked. I started the job at the telephone company at 9 in the morning and worked until 15:30 where I started at the restaurant at 16:00 and worked till 22:00. Young and full of energy, so that wasnt a problem. After a month or so, I was offered more shifts at the restaurant and in February 2007 I stopped working at the telephone company and took on all the shifts I could get at the restaurant which resulted in quite a few hours. In the meantime, I've sta...

It will be a different date when I'm posting this, but at the moment its the 6th of April 2019. Yesterday I delivered my second sick note to my manager at work which means I started week 3 of being home from work. For the first 2 weeks I tried different things like watching Netflix, listening to music, taking walks, clean the apartment and make food. And I gave online gaming a go. I couldnt do much of anything since it made the headaches worse. I couldnt stick with anything for more than 10-15 minutes before I needed a break to either move around or just not look at anything but the wall. Then there was a lot of "sitting around watching paint dry". As I mentioned in my introduction, I'm writing this for others to read. You might be a medical student who is just stumbling upon my story, struggling with the same type of cyst that I have or just out of pure curiosity. Either way, I hope this will help you in whichever way for whatever reason. When I got my first sick...

There's still family and friends that doesnt know my cyst has come back, so in this case, I wont be introducing myself as I normally would. I dont know what the chances would be of people that I already know will be reading this (or anyone else for that matter), but I won't take my chances. Too many questions and sympathy aaaw's comes from that and that's not the reason I'm writing this. I'm writing this for others to read, wether its just out of interest, curiosity or you might be struggling with the same as I do. And its a little bit of something for me to do on days I'm not able to do much else.