Excerpt from a podcast interview in which Andrés Morales recounts living with debilitating migraines for 25 years, trying numerous (mostly ineffective) remedies, and ultimately discovering a pituitary tumor after renewed medical testing. He emphasizes the importance of addressing health problems urgently and his search for top medical specialists.
I had migraines my whole life, 25 years with them. And so when I was very young, when they started, I did my research and went to one doctor, to another, acupuncturists and stones, whatever you want, right? I mean, shamans, to get rid of my migraines. And one day, while searching, I came across a doctor. And he told me, no. He tells me, one day they'll go away, live with them. And then my comfort zone said, ah, I. I mean, I found the perfect answer to say, oh, yes, I'm going to take it with me. So I had 25 years of migraines. And I said, and I say, now my productivity is terrible. My head hurt two or three times a week. I remember going to board meetings in Bachoko with terrible migraines. I remember being in my office in meetings where I suffered a lot. And also, well, I couldn't stop, right? I never stopped. I just swallowed them for 25 years. And so how important learning is, how important it is to deal with your problems, right? Whether they are physical, emotional, or if your car has a flat tire, you know what I mean? You have to deal with any problem. And Even after those 25 years, seven years ago, I had a really, really bad crisis and I went to the hospital and such. So I said, I'm going to do my research again to see what's wrong with me, right? And so I went and got a test done at a hospital. And it immediately turned out that I had a pituitary tumor. A pituitary tumor that I had had for 25 years. I don't know. But what I do know is that when they discovered it, it was here in a hospital. And there I'm going to get into another topic, but how important it is to deal with the urgency of something, the importance of urgency. When they tell you that you have a brain tumor, the first thing you have to do is that it's urgent. So I started looking. I said, I'm going to go to the best. I want the best doctor, right? That's the first thought. I want to go to the best doctor. Well, it doesn't make me believe it, but the best doctor in Mexico City had no appointments. There was no way. I spent three weeks looking for different options, different doctors, and I never got anything. Then I met a friend and he told me.
