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Cystic Pituitary Tumor
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<HTML>In a message dated 5/27/2004 4:47:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Prince, I, too, have funny head pain or discomfort off and on. My newest doctor told me that if I complain a lot about headaches, then my tumor should qualify for removal. So next time I saw him I complained about headaches and he did not yet recommend surgery. Oh well. I believe my Brain Fog is due to my low blood pressure (which I think is caused by my Pit Tumor). The test for this is a tilt-table test. With this low bp (called Neurally Mediated Hypotension), when I am inactive physically, my heart slows down and the blood pools in my lower legs via gravity.
This causes reduced blood in the brain and heart. I find I can fix this situation within 30 minutes by lying down flat, my legs or knees raised a bit. If I do nothing, I will pass out. To help me fall asleep, which sometimes is difficult after sleeping so much during the day, I take: Melantonin (tells the body clock its time for sleep), Calcium, Zoloft, Magnesium. I need a Xanax (0.25mg) rarely but sometimes to fall asleep, too. Basically, my symptoms are: extreme fatigue (in bed 20 out of 24 hours for 7 years now), dizziness, lightheadedness, some nausea, blurry vision, can't hold pee &wet my pants without DDAVP pills, vertigo (can't ride in SUV's or little buses! or symptoms get much worse), foggy &unclear thinking, various noise in my ears (especially when lying down), low blood pressure (that only shows up on a tilt table test, not the normal arm cuff test).
I take Florinef for the low blood pressure. It makes my body retain salt and, therefore, water, which increases my blood volume and my blood pressure. Some people are cured of fatigue with this drug but not me -- tho' it does help me alot.
I take Provigil to relieve my daytime sleepiness. It helps alot and I get the added benefit of much clearer thinking and some energy. Also, it reduced my appetite! Yea!
My doctor is trying me on Coritsol and Thyroid meds and I don't think they are helping much yet.
I also take Zoloft for depression. My Psychiatrist encourages me by telling me that, even with the antidepresent, my circumstances with these health problems should still make me somewhat depressed.
Have you found any drugs or diets, etc. that help you with your symptoms? Isn't being in bed so much the pits! I feel like singing the spiritual song, "We shall overcome !"
May God bless you (and all of us) with a quick recovery and then good health 'till Jesus comes!
This "trial" of bad health has increased my faith and dependence in God but I still can't help occasionally singing out, "Would it change some vast eternal plan if I were a healthy and rich woman ?" (taken from Fiddler on the Roof and the song "If I were a rich man").
Pam
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yes u sound just like me . my brain has a weird sensation in it all the time tell your doc to put u on this medication called armour it is a thyroid meds i bet u u will fel more alive and better do u still feel bad now? u dont feel any better with all these meds i dont not yet i have to get a new meds and dose and i just took the cortisol test i will find out results tomorrow so please keep me in form so u mostly have fatigued? or u still have alll symptoms? i feel like i am gonna pass out unclear thinking i try to excercise but my head feels bad i dont and when i have tummy problems it makes my head feel worse i have had tummy problems for a while like sour in tummy pains bloated gas diarrhea nauseated vommitting i feel nervous shakey unreal unattached to my self tired all time im over weight and i dont eat alot i k i just dont understand well im not on no depression pill cuzz it dosent help me at all i also have insomnia i cant sleep at night alot well i have been feeling better lately i dont know maybe meds are helping now?? i hope it keeps getting beter and better i have symptoms of hypo and hyper thyroidism weird huh well i got to go hun i havent figured out diet thing yet but i want to have gastric bypass to help me lose weight ok God Bless u hun and pray everynight ......Prince |
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