Hello my name is summer

When I turn 30 I started having a lot of health problems by my 31st birthday I had a kidney stone that was the size of a cherry pit. After having multiple lipotripsy used to have that kidney stone removed the doctor insisted that I go and see a primary physician, by that time I haven’t seen a doctor in quite some time I have been treated for severe pain and all they would tell me they could make me comfortable but that they could not do anything for me so I stopped going.

My first doctor’s appointment with my new primary physician she asked me why it had been so long since I’ve seen a doctor and I told her that I was scared she told me that there was nothing to be scared about within three months of my first appointment she told me that she thought I had Cushing’s and that we needed to figure out if it was syndrome or disease.

She sent me to a endocrinologist and the first thing he told me was nobody has Cushing’s don’t worry about it the in endocrionologist apologized one month later and referred me to University of California San Francisco. The endocrinologist department at the University was able to discover that it was Cushing’s Disease after taking blood from my pituitary gland , I was introduced to the neurosurgery department and we scheduled my surgery my tumor was removed 1-24-17 . I was giving steroids and an appointment the following month as I reduced my steroid use I got sicker and sicker and ended up in the hospital unable to make it to my doctor’s appointment.

Unfortunately I was not prescribed anymore steroids. When I was finally well enough to make the journey to my doctors they realize their mistake apologized and changed their policies unfortunately during that year I was very sick in and out of the ICU. Neurosurgeon and my new endocrinologist were very surprised that I was able to survive not having any support. They had mentioned that they believe I had a very high long term exposure and that I had gone into shock multiple times. Its now been a year in a couple months and I’m feeling better , Im still having incredibly fatigued and have horrible insomnia but things are looking up.

PS .if this doesn’t make sense I have a little brain fog sorry…

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