Brain Tumour or am I jumping too far too soon?

So I have had a headache for about a month now, mainly on the left of my head but sometimes spreading across my head. It feels worse in my neck, temple and behind my eye. I also got tingling in my arms sometimes. I was also getting a burning sensation around my eye. I put it all down to stress and anxiety but this wasn't going away so I went to the doctor for reassurance and thinking maybe I had a trapped nerve. I'm currently waiting on blood tests and have nose spray as I did have a retracted eardrum, but I went to the opticians in the meantime due to the eye pain and they want me to see a specialist as my nerve looks slightly raised in one of my eyes (I've read this can be from pressure of a brain tumour) Since then my eyesight feels even worse but maybe it's because I'm focusing on it. I still have this headache and I just generally feel so stressed and not myself. My head hurts especially around temple, eyebrow amd neck on left and I feel slightly dizzy and "off". I have completely completely convinced myself that it's a brain tumour and now I feel like it's just downhill from here :( I've had such an awful few years I'm not ready for something else bad. Please help. Whether it's your experience with a tumour and being ok or something I just....I just feel doomed and not right.

 

For context I'm 22, female. 

 

Just want to add I'm really sorry I know I'm just worrying about it and nothing is confirmed but I really thought they'd find nothing and suddenly they've found this nerve that looks wrong and are doing blood tests and it's really shaken me. I do have health anxiety but I'm usually pretty good at being logical and I will take what a doctor says well but this is suddenly not going how I'd hoped aha

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  • Hi, 

    I feel so bad for you as I've been experiencing pressure headaches and it all goes  into my neck and even my  back.. I get  dizziness and pins and needles tingling in my legs and sometimes arms. I've had this for 2 months and I'm getting blood tests on Wednesday im so scared of what the results will be .

    I also have really bad health anxiety and im convincing myself it's a brain tumour it's making me miserable! 
     

    I hope you find out your results soon ! Let me know 

  • Hey! I'm sorry to hear you're having the same thing. I'm also miserable and just want to know what I'm dealing with. It's exhausting me. I will update with anything as it comes. Same for you! Goodluck with everything. 

  • I'd rather know even though I don't want to if that makes sense ? 
    I can't put my mind on anything else I'm so scared .

    when did you get your blood tests done? 
    thank you 

     

  • Totally get you, it's all I'm bloody thinking about. Waiting is the worst part because you can't think of anything but doom and have no direction. I got mine done on Friday and they expect a GP to have viewed them by Thursday so until then I will just be trying, and probably failing, to stay calm haha.

  • Hi how are you?

    have you heard anything sooner from your tests?

    I just had my bloods taken today they said I should hear back by Friday I'm petrified ! I can't think straight I'm out of my mind with worry .

     

    how are you with the waiting ? They told me to try and stay calm but I feel like it's impossible x

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  • Hi how are you?

    have you heard anything sooner from your tests?

    I just had my bloods taken today they said I should hear back by Friday I'm petrified ! I can't think straight I'm out of my mind with worry .

     

    how are you with the waiting ? They told me to try and stay calm but I feel like it's impossible x

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