My Life With A Pituitary Gland Cyst

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.