We had a mom with a pitutary tumor in our clinic that required massive doses
of parlodel (Bromocriptine) to get pregnant. After the baby was born she had
no milk. NOT A DROP. Dr Wade said that she had gone into a feedback loop and
her bdy wasn't responding to her prolactin level (It was over 900).
A second mom with a tumor had tons of milk but it was *galactorrhea*. There
was almost no caloric value to the milk. It looked like watered down skim
milk.
As for the surgery to fix this benign tumor. I worked at a major hospital
about 10 years ago that was doing a new pitutary surgery to help with
prostrate cancer. They were trying to do as little damage to good brain
tissue as possible. The surgery involved going through the nose and the bone
to remove the pitutary gland or parts of it.  The patients all began to leak
spinal fluid out their nose within days after the surgery the wound to the
dura wouldn't heal.  Every one of those patients died within weeks from
menengitis.  It was barbaric and (at the time I thought it was unethetical
too). After they tried it for the 10th time with the same horrible results,
the hospital dropped the program. Maybe the surgical techniques have improved
but surgery on my pitutary isn't somethig I'd want if a drug can control the
growth.