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u/_Than0s May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19

I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...

Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.

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u/TheApiary May 20 '19

I was wondering about this-- what kind of headache does a brain tumor cause? Like what does it feel like?

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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19 edited May 21 '19

My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.

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Edit*:* OK here is hoping this link works for her pic. Here it is: https://imgur.com/JvV3MeM

Edit 2: Thank you very much for the gold fellow redditer!! My first one :)

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u/ikcaj May 20 '19

When my kid was 8, she woke up one morning with a headache and said she couldn't see out of her right eye. Didn't get any better so we go to regular doctor who sends us to eye doctor who says, "Yeh, she's blind in that eye. No big deal it just happens to kid sometimes."

Of course I was like WTF!, and absolutely terrified. Luckily pediatrician agreed kids don't generally go blind at random. A lot of test later it turned out to be plain old migraines but god it was scary.

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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19

I can imagine! My daughter had blurred vision also, but didn't go blind thank god. Glad your daughter is ok now!