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MaryO: Giving Thanks for 30 Years
Today is the 30th anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and...
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MaryO, 31st Pituitary Surgery Anniversary
Today is the 31st anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and...
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MaryO, 32nd Pituitary Surgery Anniversary
Today is the 32nd anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and...
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MaryO, 33rd Pituitary Surgery Anniversary
Today is the 33rd anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and...
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MaryO/COVID Vaccine 1
Quick takeaway: I have adrenal insufficiency (one adrenal was removed with my kidney due to cancer, steroid-dependent (post-Cushing’s Disease), growth hormone insufficiency, panhypopituitary. I had...
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MaryO/COVID Vaccine 2
Quick takeaway: I have adrenal insufficiency (one adrenal was removed with my kidney due to cancer, steroid-dependent (post-Cushing’s Disease), growth hormone insufficiency, panhypopituitary. I had...
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Janice B, Pituitary Bio
I was married 38 years when I became sick in 2011, but the family doctor and my husband wouldn’t believe me. They thought I was lazy, fat and crazy when they shipped me off to a mental ward in a...
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Giving Thanks: 37 Years Post-Op
Today is the 37th anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and...
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MaryO, 37th Pituitary Surgery Anniversary
Today is the 37th anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH – November 3, 1987. I can now affirm that I have lived more than half my life post-op. That’s pretty amazing when I was sure that I was...
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The hormone cortisol is produced by the adrenal glands, so adrenal insufficiency (also called Addison’s disease) is caused when the adrenal glands do not produce cortisol normally. Low cortisol can...
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