2nd awake craniotomy done, but very hard so be prepared, recovery is longer as well
So I’ve recently been diagnosed with a grade 2 glioma. Neurosurgeon is talking about doing an awake craniotomy. I understand the procedure, but I’m curious if anyone else has gone through it and what it actually felt like. Only thing I can guess it’s...
i all. I am a 39 mum to three boys in Devon (ages 12, 10, 7). It’s my 40th on 5th April. I developed an awful headache with vomiting, stiff neck and nausea early March and ended up in A&E with query meningitis. MRI revealed sig abnormalities on my brain...
Hello everyone, Yesterday, a best friend of mine was diagnosed with a grade 4 diffuse midline glioma, following an MRI and biopsy. He is 34. As you can imagine, we are all devastated, and I have been trying to do any researching into it since his first...
My husband was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and we were told due to the shape/shading that it is a cancerous tumor. A full body scan showed no signs of cancer elsewhere. He just had surgery to debulk the tumor and he is recovering well considering...
Had fantastic news after my husbands op last Monday they got all the tumour out he came home Thursday but finding it all abit over whelming he is very confused and not making sense and my 20 year old doesn’t want to be around because he isn’t himself...
Hi, I started my radiotherapy for a grade 3 tumour 3 weeks ago. I have shoulder length hair and was advised to keep it long as I could potentially hide it with a small scarf so it still looked like I had hair. I had surgery in November so have a big...
Hi First time poster here. I had a large grade 3 frontal lobe Oligodendroglioma diagnosed in February 2022. Ever since surgery to remove the bulk of it, my left hand foot has been feeling numb as if i'm walking with a large sponge on it (not unusual...
Hello everyone. Just chipping in here to tell you why I am posting. Long and short I had the symptoms over about 4 months,then was told I had a brain tumour. It was removed 11 days ago ,and I am told that the cancer is a vicious one and won’t go away...
Hi I am having a mri in three weeks to rule out brain tumour before being sent off for physio for my neck. But have intense headaches and pressure on top on head and all round mu head. I am terrified of that I have a brain tumor. I know no one can say...
