Richd
20-10-08, 19:57
I've been wondering this for a long time. The first time my panic/anxiety/depression became full blown, around 4 years ago, I wandered if it was a brain tumour. I went to my doctor and he diagnosed my anxiety/depression.
Since then it's always been in the back of my mind that he might have got it wrong.
Skip forward to today, this morning I woke up with a very faint headache and a slightly sick feeling in my stomach. I don't get headaches very often, as I believe most tumour sufferers do, but I had one all the same. I put it down to the bad weather at the time.
Anyway, I had a good day today, have actually felt like my old self for a change, which was really good.
Then, coming home on the bus, I was just listening to my headphones, when all of a sudden it felt like something had just switched in my head, it made my right eye feel a little funny, but caused a full blown panic attack to occur. I got home about 5 minutes later, still shaking from the attack, hardly able to talk to anyone, only able to eat half a meal before putting it to one side and coming upstairs to look for brain tumour information.
The thing is, I don't get headaches, or fits, or have ever become unconscious. But I do get a very uneasy sensation in my head and around my eyes, and slightly blurred vision at times, with lights. I put this down to my anxiety and depression, but what if it has been a brain tumour all along? By now it would be pretty fargone. Surely my chances of survival would be pretty slim.
I am really freaking out! Does anyone know if it's possible to have a brain tumour without headaches or fits/fainting? I'm tempted to go to my doctor and have him check me out specifically for this... but does anyone know anything about brain tumours they could tell me?
Since then it's always been in the back of my mind that he might have got it wrong.
Skip forward to today, this morning I woke up with a very faint headache and a slightly sick feeling in my stomach. I don't get headaches very often, as I believe most tumour sufferers do, but I had one all the same. I put it down to the bad weather at the time.
Anyway, I had a good day today, have actually felt like my old self for a change, which was really good.
Then, coming home on the bus, I was just listening to my headphones, when all of a sudden it felt like something had just switched in my head, it made my right eye feel a little funny, but caused a full blown panic attack to occur. I got home about 5 minutes later, still shaking from the attack, hardly able to talk to anyone, only able to eat half a meal before putting it to one side and coming upstairs to look for brain tumour information.
The thing is, I don't get headaches, or fits, or have ever become unconscious. But I do get a very uneasy sensation in my head and around my eyes, and slightly blurred vision at times, with lights. I put this down to my anxiety and depression, but what if it has been a brain tumour all along? By now it would be pretty fargone. Surely my chances of survival would be pretty slim.
I am really freaking out! Does anyone know if it's possible to have a brain tumour without headaches or fits/fainting? I'm tempted to go to my doctor and have him check me out specifically for this... but does anyone know anything about brain tumours they could tell me?