Recovering After Pituitary Macroadenoma Concern About Future Children

I had a pituitary macroadenoma that compressed my pituitary gland and caused multiple hormonal disturbances. As a result, my growth was affected and I reached a height of 5'4", while my brothers and father are 5'10" and above.

Almost everything is stable now, my hormones have normalized, and all my genetic tests came back negative. No one in my entire extended family has had anything similar.

My biggest worry is whether this condition could still be passed on to my children. Since my case wasn’t genetic and was due to compression from the macroadenoma, is there any real chance that my children might inherit this or have reduced height because of what happened to me?

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 4:49 AM UTC

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