Brain Mets and Driving after treatment. Any Info?
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Brain Mets and Driving after treatment. Any Info?

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    • August 6, 2014 at 8:20 pm
    Patina
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    Does anyone have any inforamtion about being able to drive after having gamma knife radiation surgery for brain mets? Links to webistes appreciated.

    I am not finding much online about this and need to ask a doctor some questions.

    There is no history of seizures, headaches…and more than one tumor treated. So far, there are no new tumors. There was a reocurance and treatment 6 months after the first treatment.  But so far no additional turmors have been found.

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      • August 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm
      Cooper
      Participant

      Go to this forum for a current complete discussion on this: http://forum.melanomainternational.org/mif/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=35226

      Hope all goes well for youi

      • August 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm
      Cooper
      Participant

      Go to this forum for a current complete discussion on this: http://forum.melanomainternational.org/mif/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=35226

      Hope all goes well for youi

      • August 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm
      Cooper
      Participant

      Go to this forum for a current complete discussion on this: http://forum.melanomainternational.org/mif/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=35226

      Hope all goes well for youi

      • August 7, 2014 at 10:08 pm
      ecc26
      Participant

      My history sounds a bit similar to this- multiple mets treated about 6 months apart. As far as I know you're only supposed to not drive for about 48 hrs after SRS. At least that's what my doctors have all told me- and I asked very specifically because I didn't believe them. I think I avoided driving for about a week each time, but that was my choice. Honestly I think I was more "fuzzy" and distracted during/after the WBR than after either SRS experience. After the second treatment I had some mild/mod headaches for a week or 2, but then things eased up and aside from a couple of days where I got dehydrated I've been mostly fine. I think I may have developed a sensitivity to pepperoni (or something in it) as I've noticed that if I eat even just a couple slices I begin to get a headache and earlier this week I had something very close to a migrane- which I haven't had in a long time. I was very concerned that I might be developing more mets or necrosis, but I went to bed and made sure to over-hydrate the next day and the rest of the week went along without incident. I have continued to drive to/from work, grocery store, doctor's office, etc with the exception of the first couple of days after treatment. 

      • August 7, 2014 at 10:08 pm
      ecc26
      Participant

      My history sounds a bit similar to this- multiple mets treated about 6 months apart. As far as I know you're only supposed to not drive for about 48 hrs after SRS. At least that's what my doctors have all told me- and I asked very specifically because I didn't believe them. I think I avoided driving for about a week each time, but that was my choice. Honestly I think I was more "fuzzy" and distracted during/after the WBR than after either SRS experience. After the second treatment I had some mild/mod headaches for a week or 2, but then things eased up and aside from a couple of days where I got dehydrated I've been mostly fine. I think I may have developed a sensitivity to pepperoni (or something in it) as I've noticed that if I eat even just a couple slices I begin to get a headache and earlier this week I had something very close to a migrane- which I haven't had in a long time. I was very concerned that I might be developing more mets or necrosis, but I went to bed and made sure to over-hydrate the next day and the rest of the week went along without incident. I have continued to drive to/from work, grocery store, doctor's office, etc with the exception of the first couple of days after treatment. 

      • August 7, 2014 at 10:08 pm
      ecc26
      Participant

      My history sounds a bit similar to this- multiple mets treated about 6 months apart. As far as I know you're only supposed to not drive for about 48 hrs after SRS. At least that's what my doctors have all told me- and I asked very specifically because I didn't believe them. I think I avoided driving for about a week each time, but that was my choice. Honestly I think I was more "fuzzy" and distracted during/after the WBR than after either SRS experience. After the second treatment I had some mild/mod headaches for a week or 2, but then things eased up and aside from a couple of days where I got dehydrated I've been mostly fine. I think I may have developed a sensitivity to pepperoni (or something in it) as I've noticed that if I eat even just a couple slices I begin to get a headache and earlier this week I had something very close to a migrane- which I haven't had in a long time. I was very concerned that I might be developing more mets or necrosis, but I went to bed and made sure to over-hydrate the next day and the rest of the week went along without incident. I have continued to drive to/from work, grocery store, doctor's office, etc with the exception of the first couple of days after treatment. 

        • August 8, 2014 at 11:51 pm
        DZnDef
        Participant

        If you've narrowed your reaction down to pepperoni, you may have a sensitivity to nitrates (or is it nitrites?).  They are found in many processed/deli-style meats and most red wines.  As a child I ate bologna sandwiches every day for lunch and had horrible headaches.  The doctor told my mom it was the nitrates and to switch to Kosher bologna.  Headaches disappeared.

        • August 8, 2014 at 11:51 pm
        DZnDef
        Participant

        If you've narrowed your reaction down to pepperoni, you may have a sensitivity to nitrates (or is it nitrites?).  They are found in many processed/deli-style meats and most red wines.  As a child I ate bologna sandwiches every day for lunch and had horrible headaches.  The doctor told my mom it was the nitrates and to switch to Kosher bologna.  Headaches disappeared.

        • August 8, 2014 at 11:51 pm
        DZnDef
        Participant

        If you've narrowed your reaction down to pepperoni, you may have a sensitivity to nitrates (or is it nitrites?).  They are found in many processed/deli-style meats and most red wines.  As a child I ate bologna sandwiches every day for lunch and had horrible headaches.  The doctor told my mom it was the nitrates and to switch to Kosher bologna.  Headaches disappeared.

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