Pituitary tumors can cause intermittent headaches, with patients experiencing pressure and pain in the head, and further development of pituitary strokes can produce sharply worsening headaches and even coma.
In the early stage, about 2/3 of pituitary tumor patients have headache symptoms. The pituitary gland itself has no nociceptive fibers, and headache is mostly due to direct stimulation by the tumor or increased intra-saddle pressure.
The appearance of headache often suggests the appearance of intracranial hypertension and the progression of the disease, but after the tumor grows to a certain degree and breaks through the saddle diaphragm, the headache can be temporarily reduced due to the reduction of the pressure in the saddle, which should not be regarded as the alleviation of the disease.
If the patient feels a sudden worsening of headache, combined with nausea, vomiting, cerebral nerve palsy and other manifestations, then consider the complication of pituitary stroke. Stroke is caused by acute hemorrhage or infarction of the pituitary adenoma, and MRI is very helpful in identifying pituitary stroke.
Patients with pituitary tumors need to go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying their condition or even endangering their lives.