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Originally Posted by puppy lovin cyster  If you had Cushings, would you have en elevated level of prolactin? I was just going over some blood tests that I had several years ago. I thought that prolactin levels would indicate a tumor or something?? |
It's possible to have Cushing's and an elevated level of prolactin. It's also possible to have elevated prolactin levels without Cushing's or PCOS for that matter. Elevated prolactin levels can indicate a tumor, but there are women who have PCOS and elevated prolactin levels and don't have any tumors. Prolactin levels by themselves don't really indicate much other than how much prolactin is in your blood.
However, based on your prolactin levels a doctor can suspect a tumor, which at that point they will usually order an MRI to determine if there is a tumor or not. If there is, they treat it based on how large it is and if there isn't they move on to other things that can cause elevated prolactin levels.