Getting back into the cause of my disease

So now that I got that off my chest and I feel better that everyone understands the pituitary gland a bit more, I feel like I can move forward. ppl actually have things wrong with their pituitary gland that could be the cause of their aches, pains, emotional pains, and mental pains and don’t realize it, that’s actually a part of the reason I wanted to put this out there.  

Drum roll for the Cause of the disease but not the actually disease

A tumor has started growing on my pituitary gland, there are different types of tumors you can have for my situation there is two types of tumors a micro adenoma and a marco adenoma, the difference is anything that is less then 1 cm is considered a Micro which is “easily” removed and they say usually wont grow back and anything that is over 1cm is considered a marco adenoman. Marco tumors can be removed “easily” but often have a higher chance of the tumor growing back. Now remembering that the Pit gland is the size of a pea and in the base of your head, my tumor has grown into a macro according to my MRI on 8/16/10 and is 1.88 cm, almost 2cm.

Which is still okay because it is still removable because most micro and macro tumors happen to grow around the pit gland which if the tumor is big enough it can crush the pit gland or if the micro is aggressive enough will ruin.Either one is not good, however it is easier to access and can be removed with little to no damage (as long as you have a good surgeon) with the chance of it growing back later.

The tumor can decide to get really crazy and grow out past the pituitary area and invade other areas.

 My tumor got bored and has grown into my sinus cavity area. This is where it gets kind of tricky for me, Which I guess I’m still learning about this part of  the whole thing, so I may have to correct myself later on with this, so it’s probably not as in depth or completely correct.

Apparently theres this soft boney tissue that holds the pituitary gland. People with the type of tumor I have the tumor would normally stay inside the boney area by the pit gland and not invade other areas.

The fun part is my tumor has actually grown THREW the boney wall that holds the gland and has grown around the right cavernous carotid artery. Where the doc said they wont go over to the sinus cavity area where the cavernous carotid artery is because if they even nicked it I could die. Ill get more into that story later. below are more illistrations

pit gland



This is the Carotid Artery/ a main vein that runs from your heart and supplys oxygen to your brain the tumor has wrapped its self around the vein



 

This is where the caverous sinus area is that tumor has grown through from the pit gland to the vein                             


 

from the pitutary gland to the sphenoid bone to  the caverous sinus area encased the vein                                                




                                            

 My life lesson:

Where there's a will there's a way