Minnie, I have always kept a journal of the headaches since 2000, and after the ileus last year, I started to keep a journal of the GI and constipation problems ![]() and went back as far as I could remember, back to late teen years. In addition, at age 16 they told me I had heart palpitations, and as a result of the headaches in 2000, they did an EKG and it showed me having a myocardial ischemic attack. Several tests later with abnormal reads, led to a cardiac catheterization, and a 'suspected' coronary artery spasm dx. While the most severe of the symptoms have only presented since 2000, many of these things go back to my late teens, including them removing my appendix because of a high WBC and problems with constipation/GI symptoms....there was nothing wrong with my appendix. Would it be helpful to take all the different journals and put them in one journal? The various different docs have always told me none of them were related, so until the CT showed the cyst, it didn't occur to me they might be. I am now wondering just how long this may have been going on. After each pregnancy (I have 3 children) things got worse, although by far the most severe after my 3rd child. The initial CT at that time (2000) showed NO pituitary gland, and my doc at the time said that wasn't possible since I'd just had a baby. The following MRI with contrast showed an intrasellar cisternal herniation and I was told that was incidental and of no concern. As I read more and more things make so much more sense. Now I am wondering just how many of the so called unrelated problems that were mysteries are in fact a symptom of pituitary disorder. I'm not sure if I should put all in a journal together, or if some of the things are simply not related. After so many years of being told they have nothing to do with each other, it's hard to know what might or might not be related. After the double vision and memory problems last year when they thought I'd had a stroke (ruled out by MRA), and then the visual problems this year, I asked my doctor if the two might be related. He said in no uncertain terms they had nothing to do with each other and nothing to do with the cyst. He told me that double vision is from muscle problems in the eye, and the current blind spots/peripheral vision trouble is either from multiple TIA's in the same location, a problem with the occipital lobe, or occular migraines, but there was no way a pituitary cyst would cause those things. How can they get away with that? Everything I've read, and there's alot of it, says those are all classic signs....I don't understand how a doctor could be so terribly uninformed and incompetent. Sorry....I guess I went off on a rant. There are so many things going through my mind right now, I have so many questions, and I find myself very disturbed and frightened at the lack of competency in the medical field. I guess it goes to show that some doctors are still only 'practicing' medicine...I want one who has perfected it! Cat (my real name is Cathy and my friends call me Cat) | 