Heide,
Welcome to the board and to your new family. ; Sorry to hear you have MM, but you have found a fantastic support system and source for information. 

Prior to my stroke I began having terrible headaches with auras.  I had numbness/tingling in my face and in my left arm/shoulder.  After my stroke, which finally got me to a doctor, I had significant numbess/weakness in my left arm, hand, shoulder and neck.  These were my only symptoms...seemingly so minor that I didn't see a doctor until my left hand became too weak to hold anything!  Neurological symptoms can seem so benign!  Your symptoms sound quite typical for MM.
Hope this is helpful,
Stephanie

Heide,
You have been through so very much with your pituitary surgery and then MM.  I cannot believe that you have had the by-pass surgeries and are having symptoms again. I am so sorry to hear this.  I am also sorry to hear that your headaches are so terrible.  How do you treat them now?  Did you say why you think your MM is returning or your by-passes didn't work?
You asked about my stroke recovery.  I have residual numbness and weakness in my left shoulder/neck and my left hand. Also, I did indeed have bilateral by-pass surgeries in earlier July (2005).  My recovery has gone well so far, with the exception of some TIAs and a few minor seizures.  My terrible headaches remain.

Remain proactive and informed, Heide! You sound very on-top-of-everything! Bravo!
lots of hugs,
Stephanie

Hi Stephanie!
Priscilla is my beautiful granddaughter  ;

I am not really clear on exactly why my bypasses failed, but the best the only explanation I got was that my basilar arterial system had compensated for the lack of blood flow to the ICAs, and that by the time I had the surgery, because the basilar system worked so well, the blood flow just never really re-established itself well enough to keep them patent, although they did work well the first year following the surgery.  Does that make sense?

I am sorry to hear you are having horrible headaches as well.  I have to take prednisone 15 mg day to keep the inflammation down, and when I still get a headache despite that, I have to resort to morphine which I hate taking b/c I basically turn into zombie mode and sleep 
Do you have to take any meds chronically for your symptoms?

hi! sorry for me tearing through this board - i just got out of hospital today after a week of tests and being diagnosed with MM which i am still blown away by (and possibly in denial!)
i'm 23, started having serious symptoms about 4 weeks ago (well actually i had "blurry-eyed" headaches for the past 6 yrs but no one's sure if they're related)...
my first symptom was actually a stroke (yay) i lost the feeling and use in my right hand and then had a blurry right eye, trouble breathing and swallowing and then slurred speech and difficult finding words for things (completely stereotypical but did i go to the doctor - no!)

this all lasted about 15-20 mins and then the symptoms subsided, i was exhausted afterwards but then all my functions returned (afterwards i assumed this was a TIA but noope apparently the permanent damage is visible from a stroke older than 14 days)....
i then had the same thing happen 3 days later, only over a 5 minute period (hand then speech "gone").
then i had some time "off", assumed it had just been a "momentary" lapse of something.....and ignored it....
within another week or so i was having a lot more frequent symptoms, often losing the feeling and/or use in my right hand, arm and then leg (the final straw was a "fall" after losing the feeling and use in the entire right side of my body for a few minutes.
[i had been to the doctor at one point and i'd had some sort of US to my neck (doppler something) which had shown nothing)].
decided to just walk into the emergency department and i'm glad i did!!
several doctors examined me and found nothing but weren't willing to let me go.... had a CT scan - nothing, had a Lumbar Puncture (ouch!!!) - nothing, kept me overnight and scheduled an MRI for a few days later... during this time i told my story to about a million staff members in the neurology department and the general vibe was that i had some crazy strain of migraine... (i was pretty much over the whole hospital deal by now and gee-ing myself up to go home).
eventually had my mri, they took one look at it and bounded back upstairs and informed me that i wasn't going anywhere - i'd had several strokes....
to which i obviously lost it!!.... and then we went on to discuss possible causes etc....
eventually came the cerebral angiogram (i've noticed people mention they've had these post-op for check ups? no..... please say it isn't true?) - this was awful.... mine took 2 hrs, and i dunno... just the sensation and being in a head clamp and having to not breathe and lie so still...... ugh... i'm pretty tough but i kinda lost it toward the end....
anyway, sorry so the over-load... i'm going to tear through as much info as i can now...