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Extremely scared that I have a brain tumor, any advice?

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kurtl95
kurtl95

Last Friday, I randomly felt pressure in my head and felt dizzy, I then went to sleep, woke up and still felt a bit dizzy. The next day I felt dizzy again and just continued with my day. Now after this, for the next three days, I felt completely fine and was glad that I was living normally. A day after that, I got a migraine from not eating, this normally happens to me so I took an Anacin and felt fine. However, for the next three years, the persistent heavy headed/dizziness came back! I visited the doctors and he said he doesnt think its a tumor and does not suggest a CT scan because I dont present symptoms of a tumor. He thinks im stressing too hard for school since im a senior in college and ive been studying pretty hard.

What do you guys think? My symptoms are basically persistent dizziness/heavy headed/slight head pressure, it makes me feel fatigued. Also, it feels like im unbalanced but I can do everything fine, I even jogged for a bit over a mile yesterday and have no problems walking, doing daily tasks. I just dont feel normal.. please help if anyone can!

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  • kurtl95
    kurtl95

    Posted

    My main concern is, im scared this is an early symptom of a brain tumor or something serious.. I have no other symptoms that brain tumor presents, such as weakness on one side, seizures, nausea, inability to walk, blurred vision etc.. just dizziness/heavy headed with slight pressure in my head.
  • henryroth
    henryroth kurtl95

    Posted

    I used to think the same thing. Humans beings have a tendency of expecting the worst.

    I wouldn't freak out Untill you've had more testing done bro, MRI EEG etc

    Have you talked tonany specialists about this?

    • kurtl95
      kurtl95 henryroth

      Posted

      My family doctor told me he would refer me to a neurologist.. would that be the guy to help diagnose everything?
    • henryroth
      henryroth kurtl95

      Posted

      Absolutely! They can start the process of figuring out what's going on. You'll probably feel much better once you have some testing done

  • paula59
    paula59 kurtl95

    Posted

    Hi - it sounds like you have migraine associated vertigo which I have or vestibular migraine.  You need an MRI to rule out a brain tumour but you have classic symptoms of MAV.  See your GP and ask for a referral to a neurologist.  There are two good sites on facebook for this, MAV SUPPORT and VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE PROFESSIONAL.  It can take time to get a diagnosis but you need to get on with doing that.  GPs and ENTs dont know much about this, you need a neuro.  Its not life threatening its just debilitating.  There are lots of people with it.
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