There are some really nice and very educated people who participate in this group. If you need a recommendation for a different doctor, you might want to hit the chat room on Monday night. Everyone there is alway very helpful and supportive. My illness due to pituitary disease must have been going on for a while before my symptoms starting getting bad. I had ceased having periods a long time ago, and would only have them if I stayed on birth control pills. I am 40+ now, but had stopped really having cycles when I was still in my 20s. I was able to conceive taking fertility drugs and have 2 beautiful girls as a result. I continued taking birth control pills until last year when I realized that every time I would go off them for a week, I would have full blown migraine headaches the entire week. The headaches would go away as soon as I started taking the pill again. At about the same time, I lost most of the rest of my pituitary function as well. It's taken over a year to get things in line, and now I feel like I'm losing my adrenal function. I couldn't even get diagnosed where I live. I had to drive to a pituitary clinic 5 hours away from home. That is the closest pituiary center I could find. Lucky for me, I rounded up all of my medical records, and I was successfully diagnosed on my very first visit to the pituitary clinic. Now, however, I 've found that the pit specialist is simply to busy for me. He has over 5,000 endo patients. So, I'm hopefully going to be able to find a qualified endo who lives within an hour of my home who can treat me with the pit specialists guidance. Unfortunately, as you meet and chat with other pit patients, you will discover that we have all gone through doctors, and finding the right one isn't easy at all. It is so frustrating. As far as I know, hormone replacement therapy is all you get. They try to give you replacement dosage close to what your body should be making on its own. Are you having any other symptoms of pituitary malfunction? If you'd like to e-mail instead of post you can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Everyone laughs at that address, but simply put, I have a 10th Anniversary Trans Am.. It's just about as old as you are. Sheri :) | 