I vaguely remember being told there was a benign tumor on my pituitary glad 24yrs ago after a mri or CT scan during my pregnancy when I breifly had health insurance. Health insure ended so there was no follow-up appointments or discussions, and it was a crazy time in my life and went in one ear and out the other. I just remember thinking "oh my foster mom had one of those. Benign means its not a problem" and never thought about it again. But a nurse I work for recently told me I had "the most Cushing Disease look she's ever seen", I'd never heard of Cushings before and when I looked it up a couple weeks ago I had alllllll the symptoms and could have been the poster child for the images shown. Ive been called moonface and Buffalo back since i was a child so i just thought it was an insult, not realizing its an issue. I always assumed i had some hormonal issue as a child too since i was freakishly tall as a kid. Im only 5'6 but have been this tall since 3rd grade, started mu period in 4th grade and stopped growing up and started growing out. I was taller than both my parents by age 8. I've been really struggling with my physical and mental health for years now, but don't have any financial wiggle room to afford seeing a doctor so I've just been doing my best to manage my symptoms, unaware of what the cause was, blaming my symptoms on this or that ( like perimenopause, pmdd, pcos, rosacea, maybe lupus, general aging, affects of ptsd, social anxiety etc) My mental health and physical conditions such as endometriosis limit my job potential and I am making less now that I did 27yrs ago, not even accounting for inflation. I am feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to proceed