Brain MRI- good idea?
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My grandfather died of brain tumor when he was 38 years old. I am super worried about also getting a tumor. The anxiety is ruining my life. I am so focused on my head and any sensations I experience it. Health anxiety is not new for me but this has reached a whole new level. Three years ago I had an MRI because of my tumor anxiety. It was normal. I did feel relief.
Recently I have started worrying again. I know that not much can be done to treat tumors. The MRI is more about seeing what lies ahead for me. I hate not knowing. I want the MRI to know if I have one or not. I can't tell if this is a good decision. Am I giving in to the anxiety? I realize that the MRI will probably only calm my anxiety for a year but that seems like a good thing. I don't know what to do. I'm also super scared to get the MRI because I hate waiting for the results. So stressful, Does anyone have any advice? Thank you.
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MrChubbyMcLard sunny48604
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Are you having any symptoms that are associated to a brain tumor?
sunny48604 MrChubbyMcLard
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I don't think so but I'm not sure. I'm not experiencing anything new at least. It is so hard for me to tell because I am so anxious.
jan34534 sunny48604
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I am sorry you are so worried. I do think that anxiety and fear have kind of gotten a hold of you. I know things like that can be scary but if you continue to live in fear to this degree, you won’t truly be living and you won’t enjoy your life.
approximately only 5% of brain tumors are genetic. So the odds are greatly in your favor!! And even if 5% are genetic, that still doesn’t mean that you would get it.
there is some kind of terrible illness in every family. My father had a ruptured brain artery that caused a hemorrhage.I could be worrying about that for the rest of my life. Although myself and my siblings did get an MRA to check our vessels in the brain and everything is OK. I’m done worrying about it. Life is too short to waste on fear.
WE worry about dying, but when we live in fear and anxiety that controls us, we are not really living anyway.!
my aunt had MS, there’s cancer in a lot of families, millions of people wondering if their cancer will return, and so on.
Some things are just out of our control but what we can do is get our yearly physical check ups, get lots of exercise and eat healthy.
don’t overthink this. Think of the odds rather than the emotion of fear because fear is not based on facts.
It’s probably not feasible to be able to get an MRI every year for the rest of your life.
I remind myself every day how grateful I am for my life, my family, friends. I also know that when I help other people it takes the focus off of myself and my anxieties. You’re going to be OK! Take care ❤
randy41812 sunny48604
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get an eeg first to check your brain waves during rest
ente18647 sunny48604
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Some of the brain tumors have a genetic origin, but a significant genetic origin has not been demonstrated in many brain tumors. In addition, according to current literature information, it is reported that it is not meaningful to control people with brain tumors in their family with brain MR. We do not scan the families of our patients with brain tumors that we have operated on at the university where I work. relax and remember your grandfather like he was in his good days. statistically, the probability of having a brain tumor patient is almost the same as for people without a brain tumor in their family. You can try to please the old people with the time and money you will spend to make the mri go. this will make you feel better.