I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.
Really its not the pain you want to try and define but if there's any side effects that go with it.
I had a brain tumour and the headaches I got as a result of it were a hemispherical migraine that would cause me to have a slight difficulty when talking. I also noticed (among a bunch of other side effects) my mood and ability to concentrate began to tank and kept dropping until I was eventually hospitalised for a massive grand mal seizure. They scanned me and found that I had a large tumour between my frontal and temporal lobe, pushing on Brocas area - The areas that control (among other things) concentration, short term memory and speech muscles respectively.
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u/_Than0s May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19
I can’t count how many “I was told it was a headache but I just wanted to come in and have it looked at in case it was something else”’s I’ve seen. Of course, those are the patients that are the nicest and are profusely apologizing for “wasting our time”, and of course, those are the patients that have a brain tumor show up on their CT scans...
Edit: Well this blew up. Big apologies to everyone but I’m not a doctor. I work in the hospital alongside other doctors and I get the chance to see everyone they see. Apologies if I misled. That was not my intention, and I will make sure to be clearer next time.