I think I have a brain tumor........?
I am really worried. I did some research on the symptoms of brain tumors and I have everyone. My pupils dialate, even in bright lights. I have been getting bad headaches on the left side of my head, followed by tingling and alot of pressure. My arms and legs constantly tingle and go numb. Sometimes, like when i'm playing video games, I can't push a button that I want to. It's like my brain didnt send the message to my hands, eventhough thats what I wanted to do. I am starting to get the worst memory. I can't remember anyone's name, sometimes in conversation I'll forget what I want to say. Alot of times, when I'm laying in bed, I'll think of something really vividly, like a mini story or dream, and I'll snap out of it and not be able to remember anything at all. It happens all the time, and I'm completely awake. Sometimes my vision will go blurry. Sometimes I'll be just walking and get off balence like someone lightly pushed me. 24 yr old Male, I'm in the best shapeofmylife?
What is it like to have a brain tumor?
I was diagnosed in 2012 with cerebellar astrocytoma, a benign tumor. When I was younger, any headaches I had occasionally were overlooked by the adults in my life… One of my grandmothers assured me that only adults experience headaches and it was never an issue for mere children. Now she knows the cause for the headaches I got more frequently over the years.In my last week of school that year, paying attention in school became increasingly hard as severe headaches (speaking relatively to what I had felt prior) now happened every lesson. I then took medical leave (medicine administered for initial diagnosis of a migraine, helped but headaches returned after I stopped medication.)The need for medical help was greater as the tumor began to exert more force on surrounding brain tissue and there was a risk of irreversible damage. I can’t remember much of this in detail as I would often drift in and out of sleep until we met a Neurosurgeon to diagnose my condition. The location of my tumor (cerebellum) made me giddy and so I spent lots of time laying down or walking significantly slower while holding onto a nearby table or something.I had a surgery done after a risk assessment of each of my choices were done. (gamma knife was one of them) Woke up in ICU where I was given painkillers, I had just gone through a brain surgery after all. After being moved to a normal ward, I had to “re-learn” walking since my cerebellum (in control of balance) was the site of the tumor… Really bizarre because of how much harder balance was for me and the physiotherapist gave me some exercises to improve beyond walking. Now I think I am okay.Since the benign pilocytic astrocytoma I had was slow-growing, I will continue to be monitored by going for annual (and then eventually biennially) MRIs. This to ensure that a similar tumor or a more aggressive one does not accumulate over the years. Only time can tell now so I have been cleared to be able to lead a normal life.For more details, I’ve delved a bit more into diagnosis and my surgery in two other answers I’ve written:Has anyone ever had a brain tumor removed with no complications at all?How is a cerebellar astrocytoma brain tumor diagnosed?
My mom has a brain Tumor please help me.?
i'm 13, too so obviously i dont know the chances of your mom surviving but what we can all do is pray to God, because he can work miracles, and sometimes, a miracle is the only thing that you can hope for. i really really hope everything turns out okay, and i would just like to say one thing: you are lucky to have a mom who will actually tell you these things, because some teenagers have their parents act weird, or even die and they don't even know the cause. i will pray for you and your mom, and i hope you will too <3
What are the symptoms of brain tumor?
let's say someone has brain tumor...he gets the first symptoms which I think are nose bleeds and hallucinations but he doesn't go to the hospital so he doesn't know he is sick...what will be the next symptoms until he eventually dies?
Im scared i have a brain tumor.?
Well, to cut a lond story short, heres some symptoms i've been having: Headaches, Feeling sick, Waking up in the moring really aching mucsles, getting angry, neckpain, mucsles in my legs keep moving by themselves, my visions got worse. It sounds so bad. I went to the eyedoctor about my vision and he looked in the back of my eyes and did some tests and my right eye is worse than my left and he did some tests to check my brain and he said he couldnt fing anything in the back of the eye. My doctors think its tension and panic attacks and may be due to sinus problems. Im 14. Thanks.
Can you survive a brain tumor?
Yup!Depends on the tumor: malignant vs non-malignant, how early it’s caught, and whether it’s encroaching on vital structures or not.This, for instance, is a meningioma. It’s a mass formed from meningeal tissue.These are two different views of the same tumor.See how nice and round it is? We call that well-circumscribed. Here’s what it looks like at autopsy:Again, you can see how well contained the tumor is (it’s that round thing at the top). This is not a tumor that sends tentacles into the surrounding tissue.If you cut it out, you should be able to remove it entirely without causing too much damage.Here’s an example where it such a tumor was removed. You’ll noticed that the “after surgery” picture looks pretty darn good:Now, not all meningiomas are this nice. Some of them can be malignant:But assuming you get your surgery early enough and major structures are not affected, you can live quite a while if your tumor is benign.Now let’s look at something else:This are two images of the exact same tumor: a glioblastoma multiforme, also known as a grade IV astrocytoma. The first view is called T1: it’s better a delineating anatomy. The second view is called T2: it allows you to better look at fluid. You can see that the borders are much less defined. There’s also something we call midline shift, like the tumor is causing so much pressure, it’s squeezing the opposite side of the brain. There is also a lot of fluid around the tumor: that’s the bright area under what looks like the ball of the tumor. It would look something like this at autopsy.Now, it would be hard to remove such a tumor without doing a lot of damage to the surrounding tissues.As you might imagine, the survival rates are a lot lower.Even then, some people will survive… just not very many.
Can a stuttering disorder be a symptom of brain cancer?
My husband has Stage 4 Brain Cancer "Glioblastoma Multiforme" and currently lost his ability to speak due to 17 brain surgeries, scare tissue built up on the brain, and his cancer (the tumor's location). It is actually not considered "stuttering", they either have slurred speech or have trouble "Word finding" or forming the words. One would mistake "slurred speech" or "trouble with word finding" as stuttering, it is the first word that best describes the problem if we are unfamiliar with the difference. It doesn't hurt to get things checked out, an MRI scan will rule out a brain tumor or maybe there is some type of pressure pushing on that perticular part of the brain that controls one's speech (there are actually 2 sections of the brain which controls speech, a section in the front of your brain, and a section in the back of your brain). Sometimes excessive amounts of fluid or swelling of the brain can cause pressure on those parts which could make one "stutter". Be safe, get whoever is having the issue checked out. Good Luck