Oh wow sorry to post twice, but I just read your other post. 2nd surgery? Do you have a GOOD endocrinologist? What symptoms do you have? Is it a Prolactinoma? Are you having trouble with fertility? I ask, 'cause after my surgery, not at UCSF, UCSF wanted to operate again on me and boasted that they could do better. That is strickly ego talking. These tumors are as common as 1 in 5 of the population having them. More then half live their whole long lives never knowing that they had them. These tumors are slow growing and rarely are they cancerous. I never had another surgery, after the first, and that was in 1983. I only take one pill a day for Hypothyroidism, which is common in Pit tumor patients. I'm obese, but otherwise healthy at 52. So WHY do YOU want a second surgery? No one can guarantee anything in a surgery. Just another comment: a friend was diagnosed with the same Prolactinoma as I, just about the time that I had surgery. So I talked to her before her surgery at Stanford in late 1983. After her surgery she was on Bromocriptine (only drug back then) very briefly. She then went on to have three healthy daughters. She is still fine today. | 