Dismiss this notification
PatientsLikeMe would like to remind you that your browser is out of date and many features of the website may not function as expected.
Please update your browser
for more security and a better experience.
Hypopituitarism is the decreased secretion of one or more of the eight hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. Treatment is replacement of the hormones of the hypofunctioning target glands and/or attention to tumor if present in gland.
How do members experience pituitary deficiency?
Top 5 symptoms reported by people with pituitary deficiency*
*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
Top treatments taken by people for pituitary deficiency*
Lithium carbonate wasn't helping ALS patients, and we learned it faster than the clinical trials did. Read about it in
Nature.
Insomnia is more common—in fact worse—for people with chronic conditions. Read about it on the
blog.
Interacting with other PatientsLikeMe members improves your health. Read it on
healthaffairs.org.
The severity of Parkinson's Disease symptoms changes faster than researchers thought, so clinical trials should be designed differently. Read about it on
JMIR.
Hypopituitarism is the decreased secretion of one or more of the eight hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. Treatment is replacement of the hormones of the hypofunctioning target glands and/or attention to tumor if present in gland.
Common symptoms reported by people with pituitary deficiency
Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
Last updated:
Treatments taken by people for pituitary deficiency
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have pituitary deficiency through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with pituitary deficiency? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Compare treatments taken by people with pituitary deficiency
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have pituitary deficiency through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with pituitary deficiency? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Who has pituitary deficiency on PatientsLikeMe?
0
new patients joined this month
61
say pituitary deficiency is their primary condition