Please keep me in your thoughts tomorrow (update #17)

[RockyRoad]

Hope everything goes well tomorrow! Thoughts and prayers on the way!

[Kirsten]

Thank you all for your prayers and support! As so many times before, PT prayers seem to have worked!

I'm just coming back from Kassel where I had the MRI done, and the tumor hasn't changed its size. It's still very small and did not grow through the years. The rest of my brain looked fine as well.

Now there's the question whether the tumor is hormone-active or not. It could be that some of my problems are related to it, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the cause, so it's hard to tell whether surgery would make sense. After all, its a risky thing to do. Need to discuss that with the endocrinologist when I go there the next time.

Kirsten

[Sonia59]

Good news Kirsten! I was too late to wish you good luck but I have been waiting for a happy update

[krazyaboutkatz]

This is wonderful news!!!

[moosmom]

Great news Kirsten. You'll ALWAYS be in my prayers, as is my daughter. You are a very strong person and I hope they can find a way to stop the nausea and headaches. It took us a year to get my daughter to a specialist (ENT) who misdiagnosed her with a sinus infection.

[Catty1]

{{{{hugs}}}} Glad all looked well!

[Hellow]

That is great news! I hope that you can find out soon the cause of your Headaches and Nausea. Remember to keep lots of aspirin in the house!

[Barbara]

Kirsten, when I had my tumor they thought first it could be at the pit. gland as it was very close. So I went to see a hormone specialist. I remember that he said a tumor of this gland is difficult to get out as the gland itself is about the same size as the tumor. And if you hurt the gland the hormone consequences could be not so nice. You need these hormones to keep your weight e.g. and the substitution is so expensive -at that time more than 100.000 something per year (it should have been Deutsche Mark time, isn't it?)- that no insurance will come up with it.
So maybe leaving it as it is is the best solution.

[Lisacl]

Awesome Kirsten - glad to hear the news.

[Kirsten]

Thank you all! It was such a relief, really. I always fear having the MRI done, because you never know what it shows...

Barbara, that's interesting information, thanks a lot. Looks like there are many things to consider re. such a surgery.

Kirsten