post op mood swings

[anny_panny]

Is it normal to experience mood swings post op? It's been nearly 5 months since i underwent transphenoidal surgery to remove a pituitary tumour. My family have commented on my personality changing since the surgery. Prior to surgery i just experienced the normal up and down feelings that everyone gets but since the surgery i find myself snapping uncontrollably at those close to me. It's only afterwards that I realise how I am and by then it is too late to take back what i have said which then leaves me even more down. I can't speak to anyone about this as my whole experience-diagnosis-surgery is just dismissed-I'm told to just get over it. I know i won't be able to say any of this to my doctor. I'm worried i'm going to end up so down that I'll do something stupid-something that I've only considered since surgery.
Please help.....;(

[brainpain]

i am going threw the same thing. its been almost 3yrs since my crainotomy. i get very upset over anything. im so moody my hubby told me if i wasent moody he wouldent know me.i do have a little memory slips. i have really bad migraines, that makes them worse.i have been to a pituitary endo , but he says my levels arent low enough for meds. my labs are allways the first number on the normal chart. i spend my time trying to "be nice."  i was allways a happy nothing bothered me person. rumpled is this going to be my normal?

[rumpled]

There is surgical recovery - and there is hormonal recovery.
If your hormones are not being managed correctly, you will have a lot of mood swings.

Are you being managed by a neuro-endocrinologist? Have your hormones been tested since your surgery or have you been told something silly like you need 6 months to level out? You need meds, and you need them now and it will change constantly so you need to me monitored. Your thyroid is probably way off at a minimum. Some of the hormone issues can be dangerous so you really need to get to a doctor.