Story about Pituitary tumour .

Life Changed

Apr 23, 2016

By: Karen


I have suffered with headaches all my life. The past 23 years I've suffered with migraines. I was on holiday late January 2016 in Australia from New Zealand. I was 10 minutes into an hour flight when I got a sharp stabbing above my left eyebrow. I took my medication for a migraine that did nothing. My vision then disappeared. I had to fly the rest of the flight blind. I ended up having emergency surgery for a tumour that had ruptured & was pressing on my optic nerves. I didn't even know I had a tumour on my pituarty gland.It was huge. I am now blind in my right eye & have very low vision in my left eye which may or may not improve. My independence is gone. I can't drive or even return to work yet or ever. I'm now learning the cane just so I can get out of the house alone if I want to. I've always been independent & hate relying on others, I feel like a burden. I just wish doctors had taken me more seriously & investigated earlier before it changed my life.

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