hyperprolactinemia

OK, so one of the bigger bits of news that we have kinda mentioned in passing but not gone into much detail over is Maarjas illness, the illness is hyperprolactinemia and here is a quick overview of what we have been through so far...

(Background, as a voluntary worker in Estonia and as an Estonian national Maarja does not recieve free healthcare or discounted prescription medications, I paul do however as a British Citizen doing the exact same)

1. January 2008; Maarja misses several periods, takes several pregnancy tests and has lots of "pregnant" symptoms (at this time Maarja is on the pill and stops taking the pill just in case)
2. March 2008; we go to a clinic to talk about what is going on, ultrasound shows we aren't pregnant, blood tests show abnormally high prolactin levels leading to a diagnosis of hyperprolactinemia (not very nice) and a prescription of bromocriptine (not nice stuff)
3. Thoughtout 2008 and 2009; Maarja takes bromocriptine on a cycle of roughly 6 months taking it (leading to reduced prolactin levels) and 1-3 months not taking it (leading to prolactin levels shooting back up), we receive lots of prayer for healing sometimes coinciding with new improved blood results, sometimes not (we trust and believe and pray God will heal us to this day)
4. February-March 2010; while we in the UK for a conference having just had bad blood results in Estonia and not having made it to pick up a prescription, we go to my GP and have a chat, he sends us for bloodwork and is generally shocked we haven't had an MRI, after a slight mix up with a nurse allowing us to believe for a whole weekend that everything was fine again, we get results showing high prolactin and further tests are done to show its not due to stress or anything along those lines (this one does get the imagination going how do those clever doctors find out if blood cells are stressed or happy). so anyway this leads to an MRI appointment which takes a month, MRI results take quite a while (the NHS is on a mission to save the post office as far as i can tell, someone should mention to them that email is really quite ok) and they come basically a few days ago... whoops...
5. April 2010; our lovely GP gives us a call to ask if we can pop in for an appointment (we happen to be in Canada and explain that its quite a distance) our GP tells us that Maarja does have a tumour (microadenoma, prolactinoma) but it isn't cancerous and we should go to see a endocrinologist...

So, please pray, we are committed to being in Estonia and right now we don't want to go back to England we are praying about September but we want to make a wise decision and not leave people shorthanded getting something sorted quicker than is needed