Well to make a very long story short (it's hard to type on an itouch) I have had bad migranes for my whole life and in the begining of this last school year the headaches became more and more intense untill I insisted that my parents take me to a doctor. After several opinions I was basically told that I had sesonal fall and spring migranes and there was nothing I could do about it. Yes, there is actually a condition where for some strange reason people get migranes without fail every year during this time. I was also told it might be tension headaches. So I took a precautionary MRI, not expecting to find anything so everyone was suprised when something showed up. We found out after a while that it's benign which definatley took a load off my chest and nobody really knows what it is exactly. It's either a rathkys cleft cyst or a cranialpharyngioma on my pituitary gland, either way I have had it since I was born and it needed to come out eventually. The reason for the headaches that were so painful in the begining of the year was because it hemorraged and bled into my brain.
So during the school year we went to see dozens of doctors and surgeons and have taken so many blood tests and mris and endocrineology (sp.) and vision and every other type of test that I was missing at least 3 days of school a week at some point and I was begining to feel like a pincoushion and it was hard to keep up my grades at school from missed work... Not to mention the phsycological part. Anyway after all this we were ready to schedual the surgery when my mom decided to see one last doctor before setting the date because the docor that would be performing the surgery and the one I wanted to see were in the same practice. We all knew this last opinion was going to be the same as the others so we didn't feel like paying the $350 copay or whatever it was to hear more of what we know. It turns out the last one had suggested that we try medication to cope with the hormone levels and see if that would help, being on the pituitary gland my hormones were all out of Wack. Although some of the other doctors and I were skeptical of it just delaying the surgery and allowing it to grow and effect my optic nerve, we tried it anyway. So I began taking half of a tiny pill 2 times a week, which was raised to a full pill and now one and a half twice a week. My levels Are getting much better now, not perfect yet, but at least it's a lot better then surgery. I just got another MRI (after I saw the transformers premier and only got 45 min of sleep on a train that night lol) taken and I got thecresults back saying that I can continue taking the meds for a whole year before any more tests or surgery so we'll go from there once a year is up. So that's my story so far and I guess I'm just pretty thankful at this point haha.
