This year, FINALLY, I had a few months appointment free over the summer. I took the summer off because constantly using days off for appointments and trying to figure out what's going on inside my body is exhausting. It takes up my mind every free moment. It's just hard to do for 9 years without a break. This fall, things were kind of quiet. A few appointments here and there, but mostly good things were happening, weight loss, researching growth hormone replacement (more on that later), and trying to improve quality of life, instead of fixing problems. That changed big time this winter. I started having this dull, intermittent abdominal pain. I was falling asleep every afternoon, even after sleeping 10 hours each night. Something just felt off. Then, I turned yellow. I noticed it a month or two ago, but no one else seemed to notice. I mentioned it to a few people, and then one of my coworkers mentioned that the whites of my eyes were yellow. I saw a nurs
(Formerly known as Life with Cushing's)