Pituitary News, Issue 28 - Summer 2003

I have twice been in the position of having very bad vomiting & diarrhoea after a lovely meal out. Being sick in a bucket whilst sitting on the toilet as all erupts is not a pleasant experience and on both occasions, I remember very quickly weakening, losing the ability to think rationally and a feeling of gradually slipping away. A little dramatic you may think, but that’s the only way can describe it

Pituitary News, Issue 26 - Winter 2003.

Energy balance in humans is a finely regulated process. There has been much research into what controls appetite and body weight and the fact that no-one has yet come up with the definitive answer tells us that the picture is very complicated. We all know people who apparently sail through life not thinking about what they're eating or drinking and whose weight never changes. This must be a potent argument for the fact that there is some physiological control of appetite and body weight of which we are neither conscious nor aware. So what happens when this unconscious control goes wrong?

Pituitary News, Issue 22 - Winter 2002.

Being ill upsets us. The surprise would be if this were not true. This statement is particularly true of certain hormonal diseases, with the best (or worst) example being Cushing's syndrome.

Pituitary News, Issue 21 - Autumn 2001.

We owe it to our patients to be enlightened and forward-thinking. We should be striving to improve care, audit results and push for better treatment, both for our pituitary patients and for endocrine patients in general. So why is this difficult to achieve?

Pituitary News, Issue 18 - Winter 2001.

Sleep takes up about a third of our lives, and if we are not sleeping properly this seems to cause a big impact on our daily lives and our overall quality of life. Sleep problems in people with pituitary disorders are fairly common, and range from insomnia (difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep) to hypersomnia, or excessive sleepiness during the day.

Pituitary News, Issue 17 - Autumn 2000.

We know from the letters and phone calls we receive that many of our members have problems with weight gain and have asked Dr Jonathan Pinkney of the Bristol Royal Infirmary to write about the causes of this.