What are the common symptoms of pituitary tumors

What are the common symptoms of pituitary tumors? Although most pituitary tumors are benign, they can still cause great harm to the body. Experts say that pituitary tumors have ten major symptoms. When these symptoms appear, it indicates that the body may have a pituitary tumor. You need to pay attention and go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. Let's take a look.

1. Headache: The headache is usually severe and often occurs in the early morning. Sometimes the patient wakes up from sleep with pain, but the headache will gradually ease or disappear after getting up and doing some light activity.

2. Vomiting: Due to the increase in intracranial pressure, the respiratory center in the medulla oblongata is stimulated, resulting in vomiting. Vomiting often occurs after a headache and is in the form of a jet.

3. Visual impairment: When the intracranial pressure increases, the venous blood return of the eyeball will be blocked, leading to congestion and edema, damaging the visual cells on the retina of the fundus, and causing decreased vision.

4. Mental abnormalities: Brain tumors located in the frontal lobe of the brain can destroy the mental activities of the frontal lobe, causing abnormal mental manifestations such as excitement, agitation, depression, repression, amnesia, and fabrication.

5. Unilateral limb paresthesia: The parietal lobe, located in the middle of the cerebral hemisphere, is responsible for sensation. Symptoms of pituitary tumors in this area often lead to decreased or absent sensations of pain, temperature, vibration, and body shape in one side of the limb.

6. Olfactory hallucination: Tumors in the temporal lobe may cause olfactory hallucinations, that is, the smell of an odor that does not exist, such as burnt rice or burnt rubber.

7. Hemiplegia or staggering gait: Cerebellar lesions are more specific, that is, patients often experience hemiplegia or staggering gait of drunkenness after headache, vomiting, and visual impairment.

8. Tinnitus and deafness: This is often found when making a phone call, that is, one ear can hear but the other ear cannot. This symptom of pituitary tumor is often a precursor to acoustic neuroma.

9. Gigantism: It is often seen in pituitary tumors. The patient grows rapidly and develops acromegaly (large chin, nose, lips, tongue, and abnormally large hands and feet).

10. Growth and development of young children stops: common in craniopharyngioma. Symptoms of pituitary tumors are that the body of a 15- or 16-year-old is only 5 or 6 years old, sexual characteristics are not developed, and the belly is full of fat, which makes him look like a "premature obesity".

This article describes the ten major symptoms of pituitary tumors. We hope that everyone will pay more attention to these symptoms in daily life. Once found, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to detect the disease as early as possible. At the same time, we also advocate regular daily physical examinations, so that the invasion of the disease can be detected earlier and the disease can be treated in time.