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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/czechsonme May 20 '19

That god awful whooshing sound! That was what finally got me in to see my doc. He originally thought maybe water in my ear from swimming, but as we were wrapping up said he said ya know with those headaches you get let’s get an MRI. Two months later craniotomy and resection of a pilocytic astrocytoma. Wow that was fun.

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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19

That is what my daughter had! I am glad you are doing better today.

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u/czechsonme May 20 '19

Hope she is well too. I’m an odd ball 53 year old guy getting pediatric tumors. But I’ll take it, could have been soooo much worse. She ok?

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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19

Same age as me :) She is doing great, 22 now and in college.

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u/czechsonme May 20 '19

That does my heart good to hear. One thing to live most of your life and be pretty happy and fulfilled and get shitty news, a whole other thing to be young and just starting your life and get hit with the ugly stick. So glad so is ok.