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Q: Question about a possible brain tumor?
Okay, so all of you are going to call me stupid, and just tell me to go to the doctor…but the thing is, it might not be so simple. It’s possible I’m psyching myself out (I’m a bit type A sometimes), but I’ve had headaches for about a year now – but only sometimes. They were constant last summer, but I was also really stressed out; and I was diagnosed with migraines (which my mom also has) and prescribed Relpax to take when I feel one coming on. It worked pretty well, and when I went back to college I got the migraines less and less…occasionally, though, they come back. Instead of being debilitating, though, they’re dull and aching, and nothing really helps. My vision gets a little blurry sometimes, but I also wear contacts so maybe that’s related. I sometimes feel uncoordinated, and even though I don’t fall or anything like that (nothing obvious), I kind of feel unbalanced. Lately too I’ve had increased urination, and when I was looking up the symptoms online that was also one of them…which scared me. I haven’t had seizures, though (except for rarely my eye or leg muscle will twitch, but not even noticeably), and when I don’t have a headache I feel perfectly healthy.
The problem is that I don’t want to make a big deal out of what could be nothing – my parents get really easily worried. My dad doesn’t even believe in having a “diagnosis” of migraines because he’s more holistic; he thinks it’s all mind-body and stress related. My mom is the opposite, and is a nurse, but when I first told her about the headaches she automatically went to “migraine” with no possibility for anything else. The doctor didn’t even do an exam, just prescribed me the pills. I feel like I don’t have enough to convince them that anything’s wrong. They’re also divorced and have zero communication, and always pin a decision on “your mother” or “your father”. Anything can cause a fight, which – since they don’t talk – involves me going between them. They both love me and feel terrible that they do that, and they’re trying to get better; but I know it’ll never really go away. My dad’ll freak out if my mom takes me to the doctor (cause she has the insurance), and he distrusts the medical field.
I don’t know, then, if I should say anything; at least until something else happens. I could also just be crazy, I don’t know. Please, any advice (something more, maybe, than “go to the doctor) or insight from those who know anything about brain tumors, would be much appreciated.
A: Don’t worry. If it was a malignant brain tumor, you wouldn’t have had it for as long as you have without your condition deteriorating rather noticeably. They grow like mad. You would probably be dead after a year with most types of brain cancer left untreated. Even if it was a benign tumor, it wouldn’t likely cause the symptoms you have. And one of the main hallmarks of a brain tumor is a sudden seizure when you’ve never had one before in your life — and eye or leg twitches do NOT equal seizures, in any way, shape, or form. Everybody gets those weird eyelid twitches. Trust me, they are nothing like a seizure! You are probably fine.
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