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Endocrine Abstracts (2017) 50 N1.3 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.50.N1.3

SFEBES2017 Nurse Session Nurse Session 1: Cushings disease (3 abstracts)

Cushing’s disease from a patient’s perspective

Samantha Harbut


The Pituitary Foundation, Bristol, UK.


During this presentation I would like to share my Cushing’s journey with you. Having found it difficult to achieve a diagnosis, despite a deterioration in my health, I was both relieved and terrified when I was finally told I had a pituitary tumour, which was driving the production of excess cortisol.

Whilst being extremely grateful for the specialist treatment I received, and my continual monitoring, I welcomed this opportunity to explain what a diagnosis such as this means for patients like myself. That tests, medication, surgery and scans are necessary is in no doubt, and undoubtedly saved my life, but my aim is to help medical professionals understand the true impact of such an illness, together with the upheaval and life changes that such a diagnosis brings.

However, rather than being a negative event, I choose to view my diagnosis as a positive experience, and hope to share that with Conference too.

Volume 50

Society for Endocrinology BES 2017

Harrogate, UK
06 Nov 2017 - 08 Nov 2017

Society for Endocrinology 

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