Yes it's very frustrating. Although the first surgeon did think the symptoms were attributable to the lesion. The second (more eminent) surgeon wasn't so convinced and intimated that I should see a shrink. To me that's like going to see a proctologist when you have toothache!
Ah yes - funny how those lesions never ever cause symptoms, but a large percentage of people with the lesions have then and when the lesion is gone, the symptoms recede... funny about that...
Thanks for the link. will post it there.
No, I haven't had a biopsy. Which is why I'm surprised that an experienced surgeon would make such an emphatic statement based on some scan slides. Ok, It's a relatively small mass, round, well defined, and non-enhancing and that's all he's got to go on. He said it was non cancerous and he didn't even think that it should be causing me symptoms (which is not true but long story)
There is a doctor forum on here -
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Neurology/show/135
perhaps that is a better question there.
I have not heard that to be true, and could not find it in my research.
Do you know what type of tumor you have - was it biopsied?