Acromegaly history and symptoms

Common symptoms of acromegaly include enlarged hands and feet, headache, increase sweating, sexual dysfunction, skin thickening, deepening of the voice and, an enlarged tongue. Less common symptoms of acromegaly include visual defects and irregular menses in the women.

Patients with acromegaly may have a positive history of:

• Rapid onset of acromegaly symptoms development
• Increase in shoe size due to enlarged feet
• Increase in ring size due to enlarged hand

Common symptoms of acromegaly include:^[1][2]

• Enlarged hands and feet
• Change in the facial features
• Headache
• Increase sweating
• Paraesthesia
• Sexual dysfunction
• Skin thickening
• Protrusion of the lower mandible
• Deepening of voice
• Enlarged tongue

Less common symptoms of acromegaly include:

• Visual defects
• In women, irregular menses

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