You should notify either your neurosurgeon, endocrinologist, or primary physician immediately should any of these symptoms and signs develop. Persistent bloody, clear watery, or yellowish green nasal discharge should prompt an immediate call to one of your physicians. Development of abnormalities in your vision should prompt an urgent call to your neurosurgeon, neuroopthalmologist, or any other one of your physicians. Chest pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, swelling of one or both of your legs, and passage of dark black tarry stools may represent medical complications in patients who undergo surgery of any type. Contact your physicians should any of these symptoms or signs occur.
Some patients develop disorders of salt and water metabolism following pituitary surgery.
This disorder typically occurs 7 to 10 days after surgery and is more common in patients who have had surgery for Cushing's disease . If you develop these symptoms, contact your endocrinologist or one of your other physicians immediately. Excessive urination, thirst, and the need to ingest large quantities of fluids might be related to the onset of diabetes insipidus or diabetes mellitus. These disorders put you at risk for dehydration. The symptoms require urgent evaluation and determination of the underlying cause so that appropriate treatment may be given.