And It's About Time There Was Some Support For Cushing's!
From http://www.pituitary.org/
Symptoms of Acromegaly:
 | Soft tissue thickening (flesh) palms of hands and soles of feet |
| Oily skin |
| Coarse facial features |
| Excessive sweating |
| Low vitality (fatigue) |
| Headaches |
| Carpal tunnel syndrome |
| Enlarging jaw (under bite) |
| Spreading teeth (food gets caught) |
| Change or loss of normal menstrual function |
| Impotence |
| Mood disorders |
| Osteoarthritis |
| Potency decrease |
| Hypertension |
| Loss of sexual interest (libido) |
| Enlarging hands (ring size) |
| Enlarging feet (shoe size) |
| Enlarging head (hat size) |
| Depression |
| Sleep apnea |
| Vision defects (peripheral) |
| Multiple skin tags |
| Milk discharge from nipples |
| Snoring |
| At risk for colon polyps |
From: http://thriveonline.oxygen.com/medical/library/article/000321sym.html
| enlarged hands |
| enlarged feet |
| widened fingers or toes due to skin overgrowth with swelling, redness, and pain. |
| enlarged jaw (prognathism) |
| enlarged facial bones |
| thickening of the skin |
| enlarged sebaceous glands |
| hoarseness |
| headache |
| double vision |
| vomiting |
| easy fatigue |
| excessive sweating |
| decreased muscle strength (weakness) |
| motion limitation, or loss of range of motion |
| joint pain (hip pain, knee pain, ankle pain, foot pain, pain over the small joints of the foot, shoulder pain, elbow pain, wrist pain, hand pain, pain over the small joints of the hand, or pain in any other joint) |
| carpal tunnel syndrome |
| change in face appearance, developed over less than 1 year |
| widely spaced teeth |
| swelling of the bony areas around a joint |
| In infants anterior fontanel can remain open for years. |
| weight gain (unintentional) |
| tongue problems |
| skin, abnormally dark or light |
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hair, excessive on females
Signs and tests: |
| The level of growth hormone is abnormal. |
| A spine x-ray shows periosteal bone growth. |
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A cranial MRI or cranial CT scan is abnormal and may show pituitary tumor.
This disease may also alter the results of the following tests: |
| glucose test |
| creatinine |
| creatinine - urine |
| 17-ketosteroids |
| 17-hydroxycorticosteroids |
