Living with medical conditions is often difficult and may often go unnoticed in many cases as people believe it is not so serious, as is the case of a 31-year-old woman, married with children. She had been battling severe headaches for over three years pain so intense and constant that she relied on daily painkillers just to function. 

While she was repeatedly diagnosed with migraine in the past, there was no real relief. As she felt her life was shrinking around her, she opted to meet Mumbai-based health expert Dr Sheetal Goyal, who is a consultant neurologist at Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai Central. After all the necessary tests, Dr Goyal found that it was a regrowth of a hormone-secreting pituitary tumour.

Initially referred as a routine case of migraine, Dr Goyal noticed key red flags during the consultation. The headache pattern was unusual, dull, hollow, and unrelenting, not matching typical migraine symptoms. The woman also mentioned needing painkillers daily, yet nothing seemed to help.

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