I just discovered that my serious migraines and worsening photophobia are no
doubt caused by a pituitary tumor that I was diagnosed in 2008, but the doctor
neglected to tell me was the cause of my migraines.
Apparently pituitary tumors can cause serious headaches no matter what size
they are.[i]
Furthermore, it is also the case that pituitary tumors can grow into the
optic nerves, causing chiasmal compression.[ii]
Photophobia has actually been documented as the “presenting visual symptom
of chiasmal compression” caused by a pituitary tumor, although peripheral
vision loss is a more common major symptom.
My photophobia is getting worse and worse. I cannot bare a normal level of
reading (or less) light over my head for any length of time.
My migraines have gotten worse; although my herbal remedy is keeping them
under control (what a blessing that has been).
No doubt the tumor that I was diagnosed with, which was never discussed in
Jan of 2008 as a cause of my migraines, has grown.
Where did this tumor come from?
Well, it is not quite clear.
In the past tumors were difficult to diagnose in the pituitary gland because
the gland is so small.
Today’s MRIs make diagnosis easier.
What we really don’t know are the rate of occurrence and whether the rate is
growing.
The range of occurrence is from 2% to 20% based on a variety of screening
factors. Someone needs to sort out what those factors are and see if age plays
a role because if the incidence is increasing at a younger age then we have a
problem here.
My bet is we have a problem here and it is part of the same complex of
problems as autism, Parkinson’s’ syndrome, allergies, asthma, and thyroid
disease/cancer.
These diseases all occur within “normal” populations, but the rate seems to
be growing rapidly for all of these diseases.
Some people will argue against a real
increase in autism (saying an increase in diagnosis is not the same as an
increase in incidence) and I don’t want or need to argue that now because
allergies, Parkinson’s, asthma, and thyroid disease have been clearly linked to
environmental contaminants.
We are living in a chemical soup seasoned with excess levels (for our body’s
evolved levels of tolerance) of radionuclides, some of which are NOT found in nature.
I was born in the SF Bay Area in mid 1960s, 4th generation in the area.
Makes one wonder about what I was exposed to growing up because for some
reason or other those deposition maps of the US from atmospheric testing always
show the Bay Area as rather hot.
1963 was the peak of atmospheric testing because of subsequent bans
(thankfully). We have Kennedy to thank for that.
A lot of fallout would have been around in the mid-1960s.
I could also have been exposed to contaminants from research at Lawrence
Livermore Lab.
When one finds a constellation of environmentally mediated diseases within
close family members—such as the complex of Parkinson’s, autism, and pituitary
tumor found within my immediate family, one has to wonder why we are not paying
more attention to the environmental risks that compromise human well-being.
Hunger, malnutrition, dysentery are ancient diseases that plague our world
still because we care not enough to share what we have with all.
Now we have created new diseases to eat away at the health and well-being of
those who thought they had plenty.
There is a better way.
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