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Brain tumor? I’m freaking out HELP

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Sydney1997
Sydney1997

I was diagnosed with Labyrinthitis back in December after having a cold. It got way better by January and the off balanced feeling/dizziness went away.

I just recently had a cold once again and about 7 days into the cold (congestion was my only symptoms at that point) I started to feel the off balanced feeling once again. I’m still wondering if that’s due to residual dizziness from Lab? If anyone else has had Lab and then experienced that sort of thing, let me know!

The off balanced feeling has still been around for the past couple days, but it’s easier to ignore because I dealt with it for awhile. Today I was sitting watching TV and I noticed it was hard to focus on the TV like it was when I had Labyrinthitis back in December. I started to test it out and leaned my head back to look up at the ceiling and then down quickly to see if I would get dizzy, I did a little. I ignored it. 15 minutrss later I felt what I describe as vertigo but 5x worse. It only lasted for a couple seconds. It was like the room and myself shifted, but I didn’t move. It felt like a wave went through my body and the room went all weird. Immediately I went into panic mode and my body just detached itself so now at the moment I’m having crazy derealization and depersonalization because of how terrifying that was.

I’m not sure what it was? I don’t know if it’s from my cold and my Labyrinthitis that was gone is now rearing it’s ugly head? Or I have a brain tumor? I’ve read that brain tumor symptoms don’t just get better and my off balanced feeling got better and disappeared. I’ve been to an ENT (end of December) and had a hearing test (no MRI) and the way my hearing test results came out was that I had “symmetrical hearing” so she put “brain tumor” as possible culprits on the bottom of the list because of it. I also went to VRT (in middle of January) and the guy there who has patients that have brain tumors, had me do basic neurological tests and even he said “you definitely don’t have a brain tumor, you would have more symptoms and they would be bad” 

I’m just confused and upset. I’m still currently freaking out because this did just happen 40 minutes ago. If ANYONE can give me some peace at mind on this, that would be appreciated.

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  • maureen05275
    maureen05275 Sydney1997

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    Hello Sydney

    I haven't had Labrinthitis - or at least if that was what I had, I didn't know it was.  In December 2011 I had my first attack of vertigo, room spinning etc. without having had a cold or any type of infection.  I do not know the cause but I was filled with grief at the time.  I then had vertigo attacks periodically until early 2015.  I remember one in early 2014 which was particularly bad and again I was very, very stressed at the time.  The last early 2015 'attack' was extremely brief - just looked up in a coffee shop and saw a square of the tiled floor move, thought ,with slight panic, " how am I ever going to be able to drive home", then the square of the tiled floor moved back and that was it  I almost had another attack early last year on an evening where I had driven myself to a state of utter exhaustion.  So I do not know what started the vertigo nor what stopped it but I wanted to tell you what my rheumatologist said - or as close as I can remember and understand it.  He also had had two episodes of vertigo and his explanation for the second was to do with the brain remembering the first circumstance and when a similar circumstance arose, this memory came into play and the brain reacted with vertigo, a learned reaction, as a result.  I thought quite possibly your brain is doing the same thing - similar circumstances, similar reaction because the brain has 'remembered'.  I would add that in my experience anxiety/stress/panic can cause quite startling and abnormal physiological reactions.  So if you can just think - oh here we go again, just like last time, and it will resolve itself just like last time, perhaps you can stop being so anxious.

    Not much I know but I hope I have helped a little.

    Maureen

     

    • Sydney1997
      Sydney1997 maureen05275

      Posted

      Thank you I appreciate your reply! It was a really odd situation. I’ve had vertigo many times and It seemed just like that, but worse I’m just not sure. Almost like a “brain shift”. I’m better as the hours have passed, but I feel that off balanced feeling and a little uneasy. I’m scared to do anything or even go to sleep. I’m not totally convinced it’s a brain tumor because like I said these symptoms wouldn’t go away and then come back, they would stay and get worse. I just can’t wrap my brain around WHY that happened. Maybe the congestion and fluid on my ear drum, which was the culprit to my vertigo before and steroid nasal sprays cleared it up. I don’t know sad I’m still nervous about a brain tumor
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