Growing Past Normal: Acromegaly Treatment Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe acromegaly. Writers describe the years before it had a name: the rings resized, the shoe size that kept climbing, the jaw that changed a bite, the sweating, the headaches, the sleep apnoea, the carpal tunnel, the joint pain treated as arthritis, and the diabetes and hypertension that arrived as consequences of something nobody had looked for. There is the sugary drink and the scan — the oral glucose tolerance test with growth hormone, the IGF-1, the MRI that finds the adenoma — and then transsphenoidal surgery through the nose, described in detail including the packing, the diabetes insipidus, the hormone replacement afterwards. Writers describe monthly somatostatin analogue injections and daily alternatives, the numbers watched for years, radiotherapy, and the changes that reversed alongside the ones the body kept.

Who it's for

For anyone newly diagnosed with a pituitary adenoma, patients before or after transsphenoidal surgery, and readers who suspect their slow changes have an endocrine cause.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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