Hello everyone!

My name is Tina, I am the mother of an eight year old boy and married
to a loving but frustrated husband-:) I was in a car accident at the
age of 6 1/2 that left me with seizures and headaches. Worse around
my cycle. After the birth of my son I was DX with Vestibular
migraines and put on Verapmil (still taking) and Valium which I only
take intermittently now. I was DX about 4 years ago with a 6 mm non-
functioning micro adenoma (Pituitary tumor) non-operable. I was doing
awesome last year. I was walking 6 miles a day, when it was too hot
(I live in AZ) I would ride my bike 22 miles per day, I was driving
everywhere and going everywhere. About 9 months ago I hit a very
stressful situation. I was laid off of work, a new job that I
absolutely loved. I have had chronic head pain since then. I have
daily pain, I am learning to recognize some symptoms like I will have
an anxiety attack and about an hour later I will get hit with a full
blown migraine. My symptoms have become easier to identify and
separate but I am stuck. Nothing is allowing me to get to the point
where I have a symptom free day. I cannot drive due to my vision
blurring out and too much coming at me causing dizziness. I
experience numbness, anxiety, head pain, vertigo, nausea, tenitis,
photophobia and sensitivity to sound (this is a biggie for me).

I am currently working on my dissertation for my Ph.D. in
Epidemiology. My topic is looking at the time when symptoms first
start to when an individual receives a correct diagnosis of
Pituitary tumor.

I hope this is where I need to be-:)

I look forward to getting to know all of you and thank you for being
here.

HUGS,
Tina