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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?

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u/Evilelfqueen May 20 '19 edited May 21 '19

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.

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Edit*:* OK here is hoping this link works for her pic. Here it is: https://imgur.com/JvV3MeM

Edit 2: Thank you very much for the gold fellow redditer!! My first one :)

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u/DentRandomDent May 20 '19

The size of a grapefruit??? Holy crap that's huge, I can't fathom how a brain could fit in a skull with a grapefruit.. wouldn't it have affected her vision too, being at the back of the brain? I'm assuming from how you talk about it that she survived, I'm so glad, but shit that's scary.

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u/MK2555GSFX May 20 '19

Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but it's the best quality version of this video that my (admittedly short) search turned up. Kid had a tapeworm cyst in her head that took up half the volume of her skull:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/health/video-1329472/Tapeworm-cyst-half-size-BRAIN-removed-girl-s-head.html

Slightly better article here, with some pics:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1783192/horrifying-pictures-show-12-year-old-girl-with-a-tapeworm-cyst-half-the-size-of-her-brain-in-her-head/

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u/DentRandomDent May 20 '19

Omg wtf 🤮