Pain from the Brain?

I had my blood drawn a couple of weeks ago because of all the weird pain I was having coupled with my freakish cycle.
My doctor told me that "no news is good news", and that I'd only be getting a phone call if something was weird.
So it freaked me out when a phone call came.
My mother got a phone call when I was at work, and the doctor said to call back... but by the time I had the chance to call, the office was closed for the day.

My logical side, of course, said that if it was urgent, they would've tried my cell phone... So nothing insane.

A nurse called me the next day on my cell while I was at work.

My cholesterol was fine. I'm not gluten intolerant. Things looked pretty good.

But one level was high, so the nurse said that I had to get my blood drawn again, but I had to be fasting before getting it drawn.
I said, "Um, I fasted last time before it was drawn. For ten hours."
The nurse seemed surprised.
She said I might need an MRI, but that my doctor would be out of town for a couple of days, so she wasn't sure.

Yeah, that's so not what I wanted to hear. If something is wrong with you that requires an MRI, the last thing you want to be told is that you have to wait.

I talked to my father (who, conveniently, is a gynecologist). As it turns out, having this one level high might be a sign that I have some sort of growth in my pituitary gland in my brain.

My doctor is now back in town. She's having me repeat the blood test this week, fasting again. If that level is still high, then we'll go the MRI route.

Weird brain growths and cysts seem to run in my family, so I won't be shocked if that's the case. But don't freak out on my behalf. According to my dad, it's not as bad of a problem as it sounds like.

I'm going to have an ultrasound tomorrow morning, and I'll probably get blood drawn again on Tuesday.

All that said, I haven't had any stomach pain for about a week now... So maybe it was just a weird fluke of a month? Or, as someone suggested in my comments section, maybe it had to do with anxiety after all?

I just hope it gets figured out soon.


May you know what's ailing you.

~A~