If you ever doubt what a doctor tells you, continue to research and get a second opinion. I read somewhere that autopsies reveal that forty percent of people are misdiagnosed. If you have any questions, seek a second, third, fourth and fifth opinion, if that is what it takes. However, most are non functioning tumors that never grow large enough to interfere with normal pituitary function. For the people with tumors that do interfere with function you must take a proactive stance, diagnose yourself and find a doctor through the Pituitary Network Association.
Pituitary tumors present in many different ways.
I now know that adrenal insufficiency is very serious. If I would have accepted what the doctor said at Diagnostic Clinic I could have died. I look back and realize that when I was losing all that weight I was slowly deteriorating. I went back for a follow-up MRI and MRA on May twenty second. When I went to see the neurosurgeon the following Monday after the MRI and MRA he informed me there is no aneurysm.