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Pituitary disorders
Pituitary disorders are a group of conditions that affect the pituitary gland, which is responsible for making many important hormones that tell other glands in the body to produce hormones such as thyroid hormone, growth hormone, estrogen, and testosterone.
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A 47-year old asked:
What symptoms suggest pituitary disorders?
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How do I know if I have a pituitary disorder?
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A 43-year old asked:
In what way can pituitary disorder make you taller?
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A 47-year old asked:
How is it possible that pituitary disorder make you taller?
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A 20-year old asked:
Why are mental healthy symptoms connected with pituitary disorders?
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A 21-year old asked:
How can we detect pituitary disorders by their signs and symptoms?
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A 38-year old asked:
Please let me know if there is such a thing as congenital pituitary disorders and what causes them?
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A 40-year old asked:
Can you tell me about glactorrhea or a pituitary glad disorder?
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A 21-year old asked:
What are the common pituitary gland disorders?
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A member asked:
My daughter had a pituitary gland disorder as a child which resulted in a precocious puberty ... She stopped her zoladex injections at twelve and she is now 21 ... For the past 6 years she has suffered form acute anxiety and panic lasting for days there h
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A 36-year old asked:
What is the recent treament for growth disorders from pituitary glands?
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A 47-year old asked:
How do u treat pituitary disease?
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A 45-year old asked:
I have pituitary disease, now heart problemshelp!?
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A 32-year old asked:
How can I help the pituitary gland function much better in an addison's disease sufferer?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Pituitary adenoma caused cushing's disease, removed 3/12. Prior: 224 lbs, 5'2", current: 150 lbs. Goal: 115 lbs. I work out. Surgery for excess skin?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Can diet pills cause disorders in the thyroid or pituitary glands?
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A 40-year old asked:
My MRI showed a pituitary tumor. Does that mean I have cushing's disease?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I have all the symptoms of Cushing's Disease, but my MRI shows a small pituitary gland. If my pituitary gland is small, why do I have a buffalo hump?
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A 41-year old female asked:
What uncommon hormonal disorders (besides acromegaly & pituitary tumors) cause growth hormone overproduction? Do they add height in those over 30?
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A 39-year old female asked:
I had pituitary surgery for Cushing's disease and have been adrenal insufficient for 10 months, but my high blood pressure has suddenly returned. ?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Is the igg4 test a clinically useful test in the context of pituitary and spinal tumor, isolated acth deficiency and connective tissue disease to help define causes, particularly of acth deficiency?
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A 35-year old asked:
Does a person end up with a learning disorder after brain surgery on the pituitary gland?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Will rib fractures secondary to cushings disease heal after the cushings is cured (pituitary tumor surgery)?
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A 62-year old female asked:
Are high LH (90 MIU/ML) and FSH (168 MIU/ML) in a post menopausal woman indicative of pituitary disease? (Normal Prolactin, Cortisol (am), TSH)
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A 36-year old female asked about a 46-year old female:
What endocrine disorders other than acromegaly or pituitary tumor could cause height growth spurts in late 30s/early 40s?Would hypothyroidism do that?
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A 45-year old female asked:
I have ess with high prolactin levels. I have vision problems, chronic fatigue, muscle weakness. I believe I have pituitary disease. What should I do?
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A 54-year old female asked:
History of Cushing's disease. adrenal out. I dev.addisons 2001.don't have to take steroids.I have started to grow excessive facial hair onn face,swollen lymph gl, hump on beck, weight gain,mid sec.Microadenoma on pituitary.could it be cushings again?
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A 45-year old female asked:
When you have scotoma develop in one eye only and the patient has a pituitary adenoma, takes plaquenil, (hydroxychloroquine) and has ischemic microvascular disease, can you tell which one most likely caused the scotoma?
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A 42-year old male asked:
42 yo male. Graves disease (thyroid oblated), now hypogonadism. Took Accutane for acne years ago?.?.? Neg. Pituitary tumors. Larger issue?
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A 23-year old female asked:
How to treat dysfunction of HPA Axis? MRI pituitary normal, short synathcen test normal, pelvic ultrasound normal. Docs think previous low weight/current inflammatory disease may be cause. Estradiol, progesterone low, t4 and testosterone low normal?
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