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Meningioma

I've been diagnosed with a meningioma, the size of a grape, on the frontal(left) lobe of my brain.  I've had headaches for months and in looking for a reason, the meningioma was discovered.  I had cat scan of my brain approximately 3 years ago and at that time there was no sign of anything.  Now, as I said, I have a grape size meningioma.  IS this a faster than normal growing meningioma?  I was told most are slow growing.  This doesn't seem slow growing to me.  What is the normal growth rate of a benign meningioma?  In my case, is it safe to do nothing about treatment for 6 months or so?
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I have a calcified one in my frontal part between my skull and brain ... It's 14*5 my neuro doc said don't worry about this .. But I get sharp pains in my head and beaches can these things grow please I need advice
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I had surgery last Aug for a softball size meningioma betweeny optic nerve amf sinus cavity  I have constant  headaches and vertigo .  There isstill a dmall piece of the tumor in there.  Amy suggestions?
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Interesting to hear this....I have been dealing with strange headaches for a year now...all initiated when I have to use my eyes a lot on the computer, etc.  I had an MRI back in 08 showing nothing, and 6 months ago there was a 4 x 10 mm meningioma by my eye.  My symptoms still persist, and I get very spacey along with this.  My neuro says my meningioma is too small for this...but yet why would all these symptoms start and persist so suddenly?  I think we need to be evaluated on symptoms and not size per se, or the location.  The fact that mine has obviously started sometime after my 08 mri makes me suspicious.  Anyone else?
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I also have a left frontal lobe meningioma, but mine is calcified. I found it 1.5 years ago and am waiting to get another MRI to see if it has grown(apparently calcified things can still grow) at the end of this month, they said it was small, apparently it was so small they didn't measure it, or even call to let me know when they found it all that time ago...I had, had head aches every day for the last 6 months until February when I was put on Tompax 100mg, now I have about 1 a week, but it comes with a price, mentally and financially.

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I had  a brain MRI that was normal.  Six months later I had another one which showed a meningioma.  Mine is on the back of my head, touching the cerebellum.  This was in 2005.  The neuro never told me I had it.  He called and said the MRI was "unremarkable".  I recently obtained the MRI report for my records and found out about it.  I saw another neuro.  He repeated the MRI.  The meningioma measured something like 9.7x9.0x10mm.  He just said we will repeat the MRI in 2 years.  He wasn't too worried about it.
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