Hello everyone,
I don't really know where to start, but i guess i'm here for advice please. In the second week of march i was taken to A&E as i started to lose grip in my hand, i'd also noticed that my memory hadn't been so great recently, i was forgetting simple things such as i could remember phoning a friend, yet i couldn't remember hanging up or what the conversation was about. I've been struggling with words and also been experiencing seizures/blackouts? I'm not sure, but when i get stressed i have a sharp pain in my right side of the head and my vision goes blurry or sometimes completely black, i'm told when this happens that my body shakes as if i'm having a seizure, and i'm not aware of this part. Also i noticed my personality has changed recently, I'm getting angry and frustrated over things that shouldn't even bother me. Whilst i was in A&E i was sent for a CT scan and the doctor told me they found a small mass on my brain, but try not to worry and i'm being referred to the neurosurgical team. I left the hospital two minutes after that, not actually understanding what was just said. When i looked at the discharge paper it said meningioma in falx cerebri lesion. I made the mistake of googling it and realised it's a brain tumor. Honestly, i don't know what to think, feel or anything. Since the 12th march, i have had no letters from the hospital, neither phone calls. I called them myself yesterday to be told i need a MRI scan but when calling that department they said they don't know me as there is no referral. My questions are these;
where exactly is the falx cerebri lesion?
Could this meningioma be what's causing all of these symptoms? (because also on the discharge letter the doctor wrote 'not related to her symptoms') but the issue is i haven't had these symptoms before and this isn't normal for me so something must be causing it, and the only explanation i have is this meningioma..
I have a b12 deficiency, and receive injections for this, could the deficiency have caused this?
I'm sorry for the long post, i just have no one to turn to at the moment, the hospital doesn't want to discuss yet, and the other department doesn't know me. My GP seems to work maybe one day a week, and i don't feel comforted by her as she has on many occasions misdiagnosed me.
If anyone has any experience with Meningiomas please can you reply
Thankyou