Do these symptoms point to....a brain tumor?

[shadowN]

Hello.

I've been having quite a lot of conditions over a period of about 2 months
and have been going to the doctors over the last month.
Symptoms have started adding up...
And I don't like where they arrive.

Currently, I believe I may quite likely, have a brain tumor.
Of course no one believes me, I'm sure a lot of people weren't believed when
they thought they had a brain tumor.
Anyway, I'm going to write up all my symptoms that I know of and everything,
and I'd like to know your opinions on the matter, if that's okay.
(This will be long, but I need to explain everything).

I'll write up all my symptoms, in the best order I can and explain them one by one.


--About 2 months ago--
[Symptom 1]
{Stomach pains/Nausea, even though my stomach aches might be something else, the recent
increases of Nausea might be related}.

--About a month ago--
[Symptom 2]
{Headaches, though it feels more like pressure on my head, almost as if it's
squashing itself. The headaches hurt varied areas of my head, alot of the time
hurting 2, even 3 places at once. Though there seems to be a common area
over on the right side of my head a bit of a distance away from my right ear.}

--About a 2~3 weeks ago--
[Symptom 3]
{Buzzing sound. This was found to be caused by too much wax.
Although it had gone (The buzzing sound had been coming from my right
ear, and had reduce my hearing),
I can now hear it again.
When I lie down in bed to go to sleep, it only takes 1 or 2 minutes for
me to get quite a loud buzzing, the sound originating in the middle of my head,
or at I hear it as if the sound is coming from there.}

--Happened across the last 2 weeks--
[Symptom 4]
{Pain/feeling of pressure behind my eyes, usually behind the
right eye, but it has been felt from both left and right eyes.
It feels like it's being squished forward against my eyelids and
sometimes it hurts to blink while I'm feeling this pain}

[Symptom 5]
{Smelling things that aren't there.
About a week ago my parent's were home and it was afternoon,
I came into the kitchen with a wide grin smelling pizza going
awesome are we having pizza for dinner, and they hadn't even
started cooking.
A few days ago as well, I went into my grandmas place
(she lives in a granny flat behind us), to make her a coffee
and I could smell freshly boiled vegetables, but she hadn't
even had them for lunch, and there were no vegetables, cooked
or uncooked, to be seen.
I'd originally just brushed these moments aside (I'd smelt pizza
at my work as well a few times over the last few weeks), until
I saw that it was one of the symptoms of a brain tumor}

[Symptom 6]
{Tingling/weird feelings in hands.
Recently I have been getting weird feelings in my hands, at some
points it feels like pins and needles, at other times it sometimes
feels almost like a quick pins and needles in a tiny area like a small
circle inside a finger or up along the hand (sorry but pins and needles
is as close as I can get to describing it), but it really does feel strange}

[Symptom 7]
{Muscle spasms along arm/hand
Over the last few days my fingers in both hands have started to do there
own things. Thankfully not to often.
Also at the moment, my fingers generally only move during times I'm
relaxing them and not using them.
When they do start moving, etc, I can feel 'pulses' through my arms,
the same sort of muscle strain/motion/feeling that you get when you move
them yourself, it sort of feels like my muscles control them at moment's
without me telling them to}

[Symptom 8]
{Memory loss.
Now this is hard to place, as my memory isn't the greatest, but I certainly
haven't remembered it being like this.
It's also only happened once, so it's only a matter of waiting to see if it occurs again.
A few days ago I slept in accidentally, my mum woke me up with 5-10 minutes to
get up, get ready and run down to the train.
I jumped out of bed, ran to the toilet and shouting out to mum if she could fill my
drink bottle up (helps with the Nausea), and she also got about making a quick
sandwich.
I went back to grab my mobile before going off to work (It's one of the alarms I set),
but I couldn't find it.
Looked about, and it was in my pocket.
Now, I specifically remembered putting it down beside my bed the night before,
I also sleep on my left side which is the pocket I have my mobile in, so I would
have felt it if I had forgotten to take it out.
So, this all happened in about 4 minutes?
At some point during that time, I grabbed my mobile, and I have absolutely no
memory of it.
Usually I remember forgetting (yes that sounds weird), but this time, I just couldn't
remember at all.
It's happened before though, waking up and falling back to sleep and forgetting.
But not like this, while I was awake and running about.}

[Symptom 9(probably nothing)]
{Remembering dreams?...
I hardly ever have dreams, in fact I can't remember the last time I had a dream
(before this lot).
But, out of the last 6 days I have had 4 dreams.
Just something weird that I hope no one will hurt me for mentioning it :P}



And, that's just about it.
I was checked on Nausea for gastric reflux, but that was proven wrong and now
they have just said I'm still recovering (even though he mentioned 2 weeks ago
it was very rare to still be recovering at that point, and it still hasn't gone away
2 weeks later).
I was checked for a pulled neck muscle for my headaches (because originally
I got the headaches more often at work, now they happen pretty much every
day and stay for 80% of the time, as do my stomach aches and feelings of nausea).
That was also proven wrong.
Like I said, they checked my ear, got rid of the wax, and now it's buzzing when
I lie down to go to sleep (also happens when I lie down on the couch).

The last appointment was the ear.
I had been mentioning about brain tumor's, and the doctor said fine,
and to go book a specialist and then MRI, if it will take that for me
to stop worrying (though at the moment, I'm quite sure it will prove me right).

Only problem is, that because apparently over here people don't get sick over
the holidays, there aren't any specialist I can get to, until the 10th
of January,which we have booked.
Hopefully something else happens, or all of these start to get worse so that
I can be taken directly, instead of waiting 3 weeks for (if I do have a brain tumor),
it to continue consuming me.





I'd like to know what everyone here thinks.
A very large chance it's a brain tumor, it definitely is, or should I think like everyone
else and point my finger at all the symptoms and separate them as if I have
8 things wrong with me, or just blame it on nothing and forget about it until
something very serious happens.
(Which is a possibility anyway with 2-3 weeks till the specialist appointment x.x;).

Some replies on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[RPLC]

Just came across this post in 2016 looking for symptoms of brain tumors. Just wondering what the official diagnosis was and how you are doing today. Hope it turned out ok for you!

[HayPence]

Hello. Since it's been a long time since all this happened I don't expect a reply but I too am having very similar symptoms and I would really like to know what your outcome was. Thanks.

[BlueEgg]

Hello ShadowN,
Six years have passed and no update! How are you? Reading your list of symptoms had me worried. They don't necessarily point to a brain tumour. I was thinking along the lines of multiple sclerosis or even Lyme disease which sometimes is diagnosed as MS. How are you?
Concerned in Canada
***@****

[shadowN]

~bump(Sorry I really want more opinions on this)~

[shadowN]

Sorry about both your friends bad luck, especially eyes watering constantly.
I shudder just thinking about how hard it was having a constant level of stomach pain for 2-3 days that only went up in it's pain level when I had apendicitus.
Poor thing must have had to carry tissues around all day.


Nope, I've never had depression, and neither has anyone I know.
I'm very light hearted, even now I'm joking with my parent's about who I'm going to leave my money with and who get's the bedroom.
Wow, that's quite sad about you and your sons pain, to think things like that can feel so real yet be caused by nothing other than a thought.

I also don't know anyone who has had a brain tumor, nor had I seen anything about it.
The orriginal reason I checked it out was because I was getting all these symptoms and the doctors just pointed it at something, it wasn't what they thought, and then they ignored it saying it was nothing.
So I just randomly thought of something that it might be, and I went and checked out about Brain tumors, where I then realised just how similar everything felt to someone having a brain tumor, aswell as my new symptoms that I have been gaining all visible in brian tumor symptoms.


Thanks very much for such a personal reply, and I wish you and your son and everyone else a damn good Christmas and New Year aswell :)..

Thanks for your two bobs worth.

[Linda121954]

Dear ShadowN

I'll just throw my two bobs worth in.

Your symptoms could be anything, and I am glad you are having them all checked out (for peace of mind), as to tingling in arm, well, I suffer from RSI which causes tennis/golfers elbow (no I don't do either) and quite often get tingling, in my hands/arms, and sometimes like an electric shock shooting up my arm.

I have two friends who have had tumours.  The first went to a specialist because her eye wouldn't stop watering, she had a tumor behind her eye which was pushing they eye out. Tumor removed, non malignant but will slowly grow and have to be removed again.

The second is a girl I worked with, she all of a sudden became odd (irrational, totally away with the fairies, her span of attention became zero she would just wander off).  Unbeknown to all of her work colleagues, she had been having severe headaches, AND had blood tests that showed she had cancer. She did NOTHING about it for nearly a year, I presume she hoped it would "go away". It didn't.

I do not wish to make light of what you genuinely believe that you have, however, I have to ask, have you ever suffered from any anxiety/depression? (or anyone in your family suffer from it). It can cause all sorts of mental and pyshsical anguish.  I remeber they day after my father died, I woke up and thought I must have broken my foot, the pain was so severe I could not touch my foot or walk on it. IThe pain totally disappeared the day of the funeral (closure I presume); I too (at times) have suffered from terrible headaches, at the base of my neck, and seriously thought I had a brain tumor; I also suffer regularly from thinking I have cancer, stomach upsets, and nausea, par for the course.  Do you know that thoughts of death, disease and generally doom and gloom present themselves in persons suffering anxiety/depression?  My son has just spent  weeks thinking he has cancer, he's been to doctors and specialists, and, no, he doesn't have cancer, he is fit and healthy, good looking with a great job, wife, house - nothing to feel anxious or depressed about, right? Wrong.  Anything can trigger it off, something that someone said in passing, watching a tv program and thinking you have similar symptoms, hearing about someone your own age dying from some terrible disease, and you think "why him? Oh god, maybe I have it too".  

I wish you all the very best, and I hope that you get better soon.  Since you can't have your scan till 10 January, go forth and have a damn good Christmas and New Year.

Regards

Linda

[shadowN]

I just found out our appointment on the 10th is a cat scan.
Is it worth going for a cat scan and then booking for an MRI after that,
or should I just cancel the cat scan and try and book an MRI.
As I've read that a very large amount of the time the cat scan shows
nothing but the MRI is able to find the brain tumor more than not.

Because if I should only get an MRI we can cancel that appointment
for the cat scan and try and get booked, as the less doctor appointments
the better (my mum is getting a bit exhausted of having to take me to
the doctors so often).
And it'll also mean it would take less time to try verify whether or not I
have a brain tumor?

[shadowN]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I just read up on it,
"Temporomandibular joint disorder",
and nothing is similar to what I'm experiencing.
It also doesn't explain anything.
I don't have any of those common symptoms,
and scanning over it I can't even find any symptoms
that relate to it.

Sorry, as much as I appreciate you posting, it really
didn't help at all.

[adampopov]

look up TMJ

[shadowN]

I'd really like some more comments and if anyone thinks it is brain tumor
or believe it points to what ggreg mentioned, or even something else..

I also have an update~..
This afternoon, my right hand all of a sudden completely filled up with
the sensation of tingling/pins and needles.
It wasn't numb, but no matter how I moved my hand or anything it continued
the sensation throughout it entirely for about 2 minutes, then it stayed
on the right side of the hand for about another 3 and then left...

It didn't come slowly, My hand was in a completely normal position,
I was just on the way home from work.
It was very sudden to, know buildup to it, just ~'pop' you shall now
feel tingling sensations for 5 minutes~


Some more advice and opinions/suggestions would be really helpful

[shadowN]

I just thought I'd mention, I had actually suggested an infection
first, but of course they dismissed it because I didn't have
a high temperature.

[shadowN]

Thanks a lot for a second opinion that actually makes sense.
The first thing I do if if the scan comes up negative will look into this.

When the headaches originally started I was actually worried that
there may have been an infection that caused the appendicitis and
it had somehow gotten to my head.

So I appreciate this opinion of a second option very much and
shall be sure not to ignore such helpful advice.


Anyone else have a 3rd?

[ggreg]

Hi Shadow,
If the MRI doesn't show a tumor, I think I know exactly what you have.  

Go to the same or a new ear-nose-throat doc, ENT, and have him check your ears again, AND your sinuses, because I think you have a raging infection going on in BOTH those cavities.  The sense of smell is located in there.  He can clean the ears out again, give you drops and also an antibiotic to clear up the infection in there, and he can give you treatments to relieve the sinus clogs, infection, and pressure in there.  Once those are cleared up, those phantom smells will go away.

This would explain your headaches and stomach upset (both from sinus), the continuing buzz in your ear, and the smells you noticed that were not there.  The business about your memory and dreams, that is normal.  The muscle spasms in your hands and arms is just them being strained or overworked.

I hope you will please not ignore this advice about the possibility of a continuing ear infection as well as sinus problems, and get thee to an ENT as soon as possible.  Sure, you can explain away this idea, but the fact of the matter is, if you let all this infection continue, it can get quite painful and create a bunch more problems than you already have.  I hope this helps ease your mind and gets you the help you need.  In any case, it can't hurt to look into this!
GG