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From: Jess

I am also one week post-op today after my second pituitary surgery. Stayed in intensive care as well from thursday to monday because of low electrolytes, specially sodium but also potassium, magnesium and calcium. Also I have and still am borderline for diabetes insipidus but they are telling me I have not developed it all the way yet so they are testing the urine specific gravity every other day for now to see if I do or don't develop it. Also had some problems with blood pressure going up and down and my heart rate has been racing since the surgery with palpitations, that is still going on but they tried injecting something to lower it, it worked for an hour or so and then my heart would be racing again so...not sure what is going on there.
 
My case was a bit strange, three years of symptoms with the recurrence and no tumor showing up on MRIs for 3 years (maybe closer to 4 years actually). I had cyclic cushing's disease and hopefully it was cured this time....fingers crossed.
 
But...they didn't find a tumor, instead they found a gelatinous whitish substance containing "rare pituitary tissue fragments" and vascularization. Since the amount they were able to collect was so small, pathology lab can't really analyze it any further to see if it contained tumor cells or not. Hopefully that was all that was causing the problem, the way I see it....anything that was not supposed to be there is what might have been causing the problem, so really hoping now.
 
Still don't feel great, but will get there eventually, the biggest scary part is over.
 
Jessica

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