Brain Tumour Worry (no headache)

[reddevil]

This topic is kind of weird to mention and a little embarrassing, but here goes!

Of late, I have been having headaches, which do come and go and I have accepted them and currently experiencing a little dizziness at times, which I have put down to anxiety because it’s not all present all the time.

Today, I woke up fine and went to work with everything normal, as I’m currently on medication to help with my anxiety/headaches, which is working so far. Sitting at my desk in the office I’m suddenly started to worry (anxiety creeping in) as I think I can smell burning, which I read many years ago, that this sensation could be a sign of a brain tumour.

I did not experience this smell on Saturday or Sunday, as I only noticed it this morning around 9am.
I’m asking myself, could it be dust, which is making me think it’s a burning sensation?

Any advice, which could help me, would be appreciated, as I cannot keep running to the doctors, every time I come across a symptom or a worry, as it would annoy my family and doctor.

Red

[jodie]

hiya

i would try to stop worrying over this i think if you had a tumor there is so many other symptoms you would be getting .
as for the smell of burning i have read about this but not for a tumor for a stroke so not to sure about that one.
this ha is so nasty and plays with the way we think so much it is sad and takes over us in such a big way ,try to sit down and think about what you would say to someone if they were worried about the same thing that's what i do and i find it makes me think rationally about it all

jodie xxx

[pink]

hi, honestly don't worry I had the same worry a few years ago. really convinced myself that had brain tumour. Felt awful. even started thinking my hands and feet were going numb. it were all down to me worrying, and once I wre finally able to stop the symptoms cleared up. I know its really hard but try to stop worrying and take your mind off it as best you can.
lv and best wishes pinkxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Trixie]

hi, honestly don't worry I had the same worry a few years ago. really convinced myself that had brain tumour. Felt awful. even started thinking my hands and feet were going numb. it were all down to me worrying, and once I wre finally able to stop the symptoms cleared up. I know its really hard but try to stop worrying and take your mind off it as best you can.
lv and best wishes pinkxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Each year, about 4300 people in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour The population of the UK is estimated at just over 60 million so don't worry.

[LeeBee]

Hi red, it's probably something in the air con ducts in your office. The other day I kept smelling burning at work (tumour didn't occur to me to be honest), couldn't work out where it was coming from. No one else could smell it. Turned out there were a bunch of people in the meeting room on the other side of my wall who had been popping outside to have a ciggy all morning .

[reddevil]

Hi all,

Thank you for your messages, much appreciated.

I managed to lift myself earlier but it did not last long, gone low again.

I still have this kind of funny sensation in the nose, also made me sneeze a few times. I have also got this horrid taste, which has appeared, tastes metallic, not sure if it is all linked etc.

I asked my wife to smell my work clothes but she said they do not smell of anything unusual, so I'm unsure what it is at the minute, apart from my brain telling me that it is a burning smell and taste is signalling a tumour.

I have also had a dizziness earlier, and my body feels weak, is this because of worry / anxiety?

Red

[kathyanne]

Hi

I think you may have a sinus problem or similar. I am getting wicked headaches at the moment, I know it's anxiety but in the middle of the night when I wake up I think of 'brain tumour'. This health anxiety is a terrible thing to have happen to you. I have had it for years on and off. Where do we go with it, family get sick of hearing it, GP's just talk the talk..... God what a life ay!!!

Keep in touch..x

[reddevil]

Hi,

I decided to perform a search on this forum and there are several posts about how other people have had this funny smell, simular to burned toast.

I started to feel a little better until I read a post where their specialist said it could be signs of epilepsy......?????

Red

[Trixie]

This topic is kind of weird to mention and a little embarrassing, but here goes!

Of late, I have been having headaches, which do come and go and I have accepted them and currently experiencing a little dizziness at times, which I have put down to anxiety because it’s not all present all the time.

Today, I woke up fine and went to work with everything normal, as I’m currently on medication to help with my anxiety/headaches, which is working so far. Sitting at my desk in the office I’m suddenly started to worry (anxiety creeping in) as I think I can smell burning, which I read many years ago, that this sensation could be a sign of a brain tumour.

I did not experience this smell on Saturday or Sunday, as I only noticed it this morning around 9am.
I’m asking myself, could it be dust, which is making me think it’s a burning sensation?

Any advice, which could help me, would be appreciated, as I cannot keep running to the doctors, every time I come across a symptom or a worry, as it would annoy my family and doctor.

Red

In the whole of my life I have only known three people with a tumour (and one of those is me) so please don't worry about that I doubt very much if you have one.

Do you think it is migraine?

[LeeBee]

Hi Red, you've been to the doctor in the last few weeks and asked about brain tumour? Presumably he checked you over, looked in your eyes etc and didn't find anything? I doubt that a tumour wouldn't have grown so much in the last couple of weeks that it could go from not showing any visible signs at all to your doctor, to having it produce phantom smells and tastes and making you sneeze.

You could go back to the doctor and ask about epilepsy and migraine too. But everything you describe could be caused by anxiety, including the metallic taste (see the Symptoms page). I once completely lost my sense of smell (anosmia) for about 6 months after a heavy cold. Tumour crossed my mind, of course, but slowly, over the years, my smell has come back, although it is still not and probably never will be very powerful. I guess the virus probably damaged the olfactory receptors in my nose. That's all. That was about 4 years ago. No tumour, no epilepsy, not even migraine. Not everything is the worst case scenario .