A hormonal disorder can be a difficult diagnosis, and can be often overlooked even by the most thorough medical professionals.
 
I often refer to a hormonal disorder and/or pituitary disorder as “The Best Kept Secret In Medicine” because after many many years of advocating for education and awareness, I am still amazed at how often I meet people permanently disabled and/or in terrible health simply because they had never heard of a pituitary tumor and/or disorder, nor did any of their doctors ever mention they may have a hormonal disorder caused by a pituitary tumor. Instead they suffered for many years with a laundry list of poor quality of life issues and are treated by our medical community as well as society as lazy overeaters with a mental disorder. 
 
The questions I am asked most often are “Why is it that I’ve have been complaining to my doctors for years about these serious health problems and I have seen numerous medical professionals and none of them have ever tested my pituitary hormones or even suggested I may have a Neuroendocrine disorder? Instead I am treated as if I am crazy and causing my own health problems because I am lazy. Diet and exercise was the only advice my doctors ever gave!” and “Why have I never heard of pituitary disorders and why didn’t my doctors diagnosis me years ago?”

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