Nancynoreen, I was wondering about sterods. Are you taking them? I gained almost 30 pounds this year from prednasone. [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hiya Margaret :) Nope, no more, thankfully. Was weaned off the terrible decadron during hospital stay; discharged 5/16. YUCK that you have to take steroids...
Hi everyone, On another list we are discussing the 'coincidence' that many of us had some kind of head injury some years before the tumour appeared. Interested...
As a child I had a severe concussion and was in hospital for 5 days. That was20 years before mine was found. I had heard this as well and was wondering ...
I cannot remember any particular head injuries but I did have lymes disease
5 years prior with nuero-involvment. I developed Bell's palsy that did
eventually...
Hello, Hmmm. I think my silly post has been the unintentional victim of Thread Hijacking LOL. No matter, this is a more interesting & important subject. I...
I have a theory as to what caused my "M". In the mid 1950's, I was treated with an "experimental" radiation treatment at Vanderbilt hospital to destroy a...
I was not hospitalized or anything. But as a farm girl, I have taken several falls on my head and other parts of my body. Out of hay mows, off hay wagons,...
I guess you could write and ask the hospital. I doubt they will tell you as they do not want to have law suits from their "experiments". Your fathers...
At age 17, I was skiing in icy conditions, fell and suffered a concussion. Not severe, but bad enough. My meningioma was diagnosed months before I turned 40....
The thing I heard most from the doctors was that breast cancver survivors were much more likely to have meningiomas than other people. Did anyone else hear...
Yes, I am, and I know others are too. You can do a search on www.PubMed.com and put in the words meningioma and breast cancer and you will be surprised at the...
Never thought about it before, but now that you mention when I was 12 or 13 I had a terrible bike wreck that I rolled over an enbankment and hit my head hard,...
I, too, had a head injury. I was in the back seat of a car when I was a young child (in the days when you could climb up into the compartment near the back...
What I meant to say is "how many people without tumors have also had HEAD INJURIES..." Just a typical consequence of my condition.... !!! Hope you all knew...
Hello, I was rear ended by a drunk driver in 2000. Our truck was over turned and my head struck the concrete of the road. Two years later i was told I had a...
I had my appointment with Dr. Cosgrove of the Lahey Clinic today. I really liked the doctor and have a lot of confidence in him. My meningioma is sitting...
JoAnne, that is exactly where mine was, I had it removed in November of 1999. It recurred in February of 2004. I had stereotactic radiosurgery and have been...
Hi...last Friday I went back to the Everett clinic for the 3-week checkup after the operation. The doc said that they got all of it and if there had been any...
I had a massive whiplash from a springboard diving accident in my 20s and my neck has never been the same since. However, my regular MD has agreed with my...
JoAnn, I too was having MRI to check condition of my petuitary gland because they thought I had Addison's disease. Found the meningioma and finally got a...
Good morning, Sorry to bug everyone; can't figure if this is from dilantin or a new med. Have been on a weaning schedule with dilantin since 6/17/05. NS began ...
I am not a doctor but I play one on the inter-net. LOL I began a rash with raised pimple like bumps, that itched,... I scratched,... "popped" the tops and...
Thanks for writing. How was the surgery? Did you have many after effects
ie:vision, balance, speech, etc. ? Did they get all of the tumor during
surgery?...
Hello Minta And LOL , thanks for the laugh. It can be confusing when beginning a new med and also taking another that is well known for a certain reaction. I...
I cant say this is related for certain. But weaning off the dilantin, noticing now the weight gain abating. Scale says several lbs less now. Could also be my...
My tumor was totally removed the first time at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle by Neurosurgeon Dr Charles Nussbaum. I was told that meningiomas tend...
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