I have suspected a pituitary tumor for at least a year but nobody has listened to me.. surprise surprise, but finally I got someone to do an mri of my pituitary and there is a mass there 8mm, but this was done with a normal t2 mri machine, I know these can sometimes even miss micro adenomas... so they told me they are referring me to another endocrinologist, to do ?? they haven't explained much or told me anything about my treatment plans options or what will happen... and I have had a horrible headache for a month now.. I am convinced it is because of the adenoma... but the endocrinologists don't have any openings until september and I am desperate to get rid of this headache.. I am assuming this apt in september will only be an initial consult.. then another apt what another month later to do further testing and then start treating this? I have had awful symptoms and another endocrinologist that kept chalking it all up to the pain meds I was on.. me not producing any of my own cortisol, having low hormones accross the board and kept dismissing my fatigue and irregular and missed menses, and vision problems, and the whole shabang.. said it would all go away once I got off my pain medicine.. which I cannot stop due to various chronic pain and other health issues. So anyways.. I do not want to go back to him, as any person in their right mind would not right? Or should I and say in your face I was right the whole time and you wouldn't listen?? He told me to just wait until I magically started producing my own cortisol then we would wean me off and that is the only thing he has treated me with is prednisone.
So my other question is.. my nuerosurgeon is the one who ordered the mri because I told him about my symptoms and they found it.. but they haven't told me anything about how they plan to treat it or how serious this is or what I am going to have to do.. I have done some research, but I only know that there are 3 ways to treat... medicine, surgery, and radiation.. but I do not know which treatment is for a microadenoma which is what I have and I do not know if anyone can help answer any of my questions, or how I can be seen sooner or if I am on the right track or not?
Any help and input would be greatly appreciated. I really need some relief from this awful headache...