Brain tumour?

Hello , I’m 15 years old a male and I have bad health anxiety so I’ve been having headaches daily for a month and 3 days now and they haven’t been waking me up and aren’t that bad when I wake up 

however there, there in The morning till I go bed and sometimes get better when I’m distracted, recently I’ve also started to get eye pains in my left eye mainly (sometimes right) my headaches move on my forehead from left till right every few hours it started with the right side then a week or so in it started moving and obviously the eye ache on the left aswell which makes me worry, however yesterday I tried pushing on pressure points that’s meant to help headache they did sort of but it made my eye sting, go red and water a lot (is that bad) but yeah my anxiety has gotten unbearable it’s making me miss school, not eat, stay in bed all day and this is the worst ida ever been, I’ve been to the gp and they said everything was fine, but still my anxiety thinks everything’s wrong so I over exaggerated my symptoms a bit (headaches worsen + tingling in feet) so I have an appt with the pediatric neurologist on the 27th but I genuinely don’t think I can wait that long so please can you provide me with reassurance. 

btw my worry is that I have glioblastoma (the only reason is that cause I had a clear mri last December so my thoughts go to “well I had a clear mri a few months ago so there’s no way it wouldn’t be a good tumour (benign) and it’ll have to be aggressive if I did end up having one) so I just need reassurance please as I keep telling my self that with pediatric glioblastoma it would worsen within a month especially in the frontal lobe (where I think mine it) thanks for reading!

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  • Hi Ethhay,

    A very warm welcome to the forum. I am sorry to hear about your symptoms and am glad to hear that you've already had them investigated and that nothing untoward has been found. At your age, it is sometimes difficult to get doctors to take your symptoms seriously, as it is unlikely to be cancer in someone so young. You are at the stage in life where you are probably doing more study at school and this could also be the cause of your eye and headache problems. Are you into gaming? This can also cause these problems. I am not a doctor, but from your description, this could also describe migraine. Have you been given anything to treat the headaches? If not, I would go back to see your GP again and ask if this might be a possibility.

    If the treatment for migraine works, then you can possibly rule out anything more sinister. If not, then you can seek a second opinion. It is never easy when you suffer from health anxiety, but try to put your faith in your health care team, until you know better. I sincerely hope that there is a simpler solution. Please keep in touch and let us know how you get on. We are always here for you.

    Kind regards,

    Jolamine xx