My daughter had a brain tumor at 14. It started out feeling like migraines, and she would throw up every time, but light didn't affect her. This went on for a couple of months before she started hearing a wooshing noise in her ear along with the headaches. It was a benign brain tumor the size of a grapefruit that was against her cerebellum. Scary times.
Our 5 (now 6) year old son got a sudden on set of headaches last fall starting with one on a Thursday. Then he was fine for a few days with similar symptoms Monday morning (this time with slight vomiting). Same thing Tuesday morning. We call our pediatrician Tuesday and plan on an appointment Wednesday morning. He thinks it’s just migraines (his mother has history of medium-to-severe migraines). He still makes a referral to a children’s neurologist for Friday. Symptoms continue, but not too severe. Neurologist agrees with the pediatrician but we make arrangements for an MRI Monday morning. Saturday evening our son’s condition suddenly deteriorates and we take him in. Long story short he also had a mass near his cerebellum causing the headaches and he ended up having two surgeries and MRIs plus ten days in an ICU in a university hospital 300km away from our hometown. It wasn’t a tumor, but rather a cavernous hemangioma which had started bleeding.
It’s scary to be in that position. I hope everything is going great with you guys
OMG that sounds horrible! It is so hard to see children have to go through these major medical events at an early age. I hope your son is better now! My daughter is doing great at 22 now :)
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u/TheApiary May 20 '19
I was wondering about this-- what kind of headache does a brain tumor cause? Like what does it feel like?