Tumour on pituitary gland

[tillymint16]

Hi

Just wondering is anyone has had a tumour on pituitary glad removed and what were the feelings that followed ie fatigue/ dizzy?

Thanks

[cat3]

Hy Tilly. The 30+ year-old son of my best friend had a benign tumour removed from his pituitary gland around 10 years ago.

When noticing his large hands and feet during a swimming gala, a medical student friend of his advised him to see his GP as he suspected 'Gigantism'. Subsequent tests revealed the tumour. The first surgery at removal failed, but a second one, by a hot-shot female surgeon, was successful.

So although he was pretty wiped out and unsteady for several months afterwards, it was difficult to tell whether the fatigue would've been so severe had he not needed two attempts at surgery.

He's since regained good health and built a business and a family. Hope this helps ? x

[tillymint16 in reply to cat3]

Hi Cat

Thanks again for your reply and help. This request was on behalf my friends Mum and she too had to have 2 ‘goes’ at it.. got it eventually but has left her with tremendous fatigue and feeling ‘not quite right’

As we know any interruption with the delicate brain does take many months to recover so time will tell I guess.

All fine here thank goodness with general health I’m being monitored yearly but my last MRI showed again no change in aneurysms and one successfully occluded.

Hope you too are in great health and keeping safe in these unstable and scary times... but as we know they will pass and move along like everything else in life!🙏

Stay well and thanks again

Andrea (Tilly) x

[cat3 in reply to tillymint16]

You too Andrea ! 😑

Love Cat x

[Matt2584]

My friend from my Headway had a tumour the size of a lemon attached to her pituitary gland!

She had to have the operation through the nose! Sounds a bit like ancient mummification.

I don’t know overall how it has affected her but I know she has a very bad memory and I would think that she gets fatigued.

She has diabetes too. She did have trouble with her site and it was getting harder and harder for her to see. Her sight was getting blurrier and she had to wear glasses.

This was when she was taking insulin.

However, she stopped taking insulin and her sight cleared up and she isn’t wearing glasses now.

Quite frankly I don’t know why doctors tell you to inject yourself with insulin, your body already makes it.

I think really, the human body is pretty much perfect the way it is.

The pharmaceutical industry eff it up in my opinion.