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- January 2, 2015 at 10:36 pm
Hi everyone-What we’re your symptoms of brains mets?
For the past week and a half I have been having some strange things going on. I have a dull headache that feels like my temples are being squeezed and my mind feels foggy. My husband will talk to me and I feel like I’m not sure what he is talking about or I can’t think of the right word when I am trying to speak. My husband just asked me what is going on as he said I seem strange lately. I feel strange but I don’t want to seem like I’m over reacting.
Thanks!
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- January 3, 2015 at 12:33 am
It seems that there's as many possible symptoms as there are brain functions. With or without headaches. I never got a headache from any of the 3 golf-ball-sized tumors I had removed (2 at the same time). I had a visual effect with occipital lobe tumor, and auditory/cognitive effects with simulateous parietal and temporal lobe tumors. Which more or less matches up with the brain functions at those locations. I was lucky in those locations.
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- January 3, 2015 at 1:12 am
I think anyone experiencing neurological changes should contact their oncologist or doctor. One person's symptoms are really not a guide to another person's, because they can strike in any part of the brain, and I have no idea to even count how many different functions there are in the brain, hundreds if not thousands.
That said, I don't know if I would use "fuzzy" for the symptoms I experienced. When that part first hit, I couldn't figure out how to use email anymore. I sat there for half an hour trying to figure it out. Then when I figured I needed to call my doctor, it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to find his phone# and dial the phone. That week prior to surgery, on decadron, the symptoms were cut in half, but rather than 'fuzzy' I would say I felt like I was experiencing dementia, tasks and remembering things was difficult. I had other weird symptoms like I could see things on the right-hand side but not recognize them as objects, so I was walking into parking meters and other things. There's actually a specific neurological disorder that describes that.
These are examples of any of hundreds or thousands of crazy things that can happen in the brain when it is being affected by a tumor.
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- January 3, 2015 at 1:12 am
I think anyone experiencing neurological changes should contact their oncologist or doctor. One person's symptoms are really not a guide to another person's, because they can strike in any part of the brain, and I have no idea to even count how many different functions there are in the brain, hundreds if not thousands.
That said, I don't know if I would use "fuzzy" for the symptoms I experienced. When that part first hit, I couldn't figure out how to use email anymore. I sat there for half an hour trying to figure it out. Then when I figured I needed to call my doctor, it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to find his phone# and dial the phone. That week prior to surgery, on decadron, the symptoms were cut in half, but rather than 'fuzzy' I would say I felt like I was experiencing dementia, tasks and remembering things was difficult. I had other weird symptoms like I could see things on the right-hand side but not recognize them as objects, so I was walking into parking meters and other things. There's actually a specific neurological disorder that describes that.
These are examples of any of hundreds or thousands of crazy things that can happen in the brain when it is being affected by a tumor.
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- January 3, 2015 at 1:12 am
I think anyone experiencing neurological changes should contact their oncologist or doctor. One person's symptoms are really not a guide to another person's, because they can strike in any part of the brain, and I have no idea to even count how many different functions there are in the brain, hundreds if not thousands.
That said, I don't know if I would use "fuzzy" for the symptoms I experienced. When that part first hit, I couldn't figure out how to use email anymore. I sat there for half an hour trying to figure it out. Then when I figured I needed to call my doctor, it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to find his phone# and dial the phone. That week prior to surgery, on decadron, the symptoms were cut in half, but rather than 'fuzzy' I would say I felt like I was experiencing dementia, tasks and remembering things was difficult. I had other weird symptoms like I could see things on the right-hand side but not recognize them as objects, so I was walking into parking meters and other things. There's actually a specific neurological disorder that describes that.
These are examples of any of hundreds or thousands of crazy things that can happen in the brain when it is being affected by a tumor.
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- January 3, 2015 at 12:33 am
It seems that there's as many possible symptoms as there are brain functions. With or without headaches. I never got a headache from any of the 3 golf-ball-sized tumors I had removed (2 at the same time). I had a visual effect with occipital lobe tumor, and auditory/cognitive effects with simulateous parietal and temporal lobe tumors. Which more or less matches up with the brain functions at those locations. I was lucky in those locations.
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- January 3, 2015 at 12:33 am
It seems that there's as many possible symptoms as there are brain functions. With or without headaches. I never got a headache from any of the 3 golf-ball-sized tumors I had removed (2 at the same time). I had a visual effect with occipital lobe tumor, and auditory/cognitive effects with simulateous parietal and temporal lobe tumors. Which more or less matches up with the brain functions at those locations. I was lucky in those locations.
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- January 3, 2015 at 2:26 am
Symptoms depend on where a tumor or tumors are. My husband had a large brain tumor a few years ago. He had a headache that got worse and worse for a few weeks, left sided weakness, and a foggy feeling. He described it like his head was floating above his body. If you have any concerns, get in ASAP for a brain MRI. Brain tumors are treatable, but like anything else are easier to deal with when you catch them ealier rather than later. Just an FYI after a craniotomy and gamma knife, his brain has been clear for 3 years:).
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- January 3, 2015 at 2:26 am
Symptoms depend on where a tumor or tumors are. My husband had a large brain tumor a few years ago. He had a headache that got worse and worse for a few weeks, left sided weakness, and a foggy feeling. He described it like his head was floating above his body. If you have any concerns, get in ASAP for a brain MRI. Brain tumors are treatable, but like anything else are easier to deal with when you catch them ealier rather than later. Just an FYI after a craniotomy and gamma knife, his brain has been clear for 3 years:).
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- January 3, 2015 at 2:26 am
Symptoms depend on where a tumor or tumors are. My husband had a large brain tumor a few years ago. He had a headache that got worse and worse for a few weeks, left sided weakness, and a foggy feeling. He described it like his head was floating above his body. If you have any concerns, get in ASAP for a brain MRI. Brain tumors are treatable, but like anything else are easier to deal with when you catch them ealier rather than later. Just an FYI after a craniotomy and gamma knife, his brain has been clear for 3 years:).
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