i am so sorry it took long for you to get reated. i am so glad you finally did. i think what can make us crazy is telling us we're crazy. my brother was...
I have also been appreciating reading the various input on this site. Thank you to all of you. It does really help to hear what others have experienced with...
I too am almost 60 and am so tired all the time that I sleep 14 or so hours a day. I have other serious health problems and the doc just looks at me and gives...
Boy do I hear you, but sometimes my friends tell me I am too accepting. So I'm trying to speak out more and ask questions, etc. It's hard to know when I'm...
JUST A SHORT INPUT I HAVE TRYED TWO ACUPUNTURIST AND BOTH SAID THEY PROBABLY COULD HELP ME {TRIGEMIAL PAIN }AND NEITHER ONE DID NOTHING JUST TO LET YOU KNOW...
Dear M Friends, I just have to say, we are the best judges when it comes to how a person can be treated when a Doctor doesn't really believe his patient. After...
Kathy, I swelled up all over after two doses of neurontin. They never tried anything else, like Lyrica. I ended up on morphine sulfate and oxycodone for...
Haven't had any bloating from the Lyrica or the Neurontin. Annette ... From: Kathy Adamcio To: meningioma@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006...
Dear Margret and Annette, I can suggest you ask your doctors about provigil (modafinil) for brain tumor patients. I saw it listed in the American Brain Tumor...
Preoperative Brain Mapping Alters Tumor Surgery 8/29/2006 Oak Brook, IL - By pinpointing the motor and language areas of the brain with functional magnetic...
Carolyn, Wow. Your story is incredible. I am so glad you had the idea to stick that card in the nurse's hand! In my experience corresponding with brain...
Friday Sept 8th will be my one year anniversary from brain tumor surgery. I
am going in to the Lahey clinic that day for an MRI and evaluation from the...
Dear JoAnne, I know the feeling, I just had my one year anniversary...August 13. That is when I realized that wow, I have my life ahead of me, and it (my...
Whoops...I said it was my one year, I meant my 3 year....gosh, see, I am still "not quite right" haha. okay, so we are all getting older....one year, three...
i can't wait for the anniversary i forget. In His service i remain, angela "do not fear it if you can help it" (a mustard seed, a mustard seed) ... From:...
HI JoAnne, If you don't mind, how big what your tumor and where was it in your head? I have 2 neurosurgeon opinions that say watch and wait for my 1.2 cm...
HI JoAnne, If you don't mind, how big what your tumor and where was it in your head? I have 2 neurosurgeon opinions that say watch and wait for my 1.2 cm...
Barb, it is always your decision but the damn thiing should not be there and every day it is adding cells that are taking up room meant for your brain. I...
Barb==Mine was originally 2.5 cm but from May to Sept (4 months) It had grown to 3.7 and had started to wrap around the optic nerve. It was in the right...
Barb That is exactly the size and location of mine. I had the same thing one said wait the other said the knife ! We we scared ....I mean a brain tumor !!!!!!...
i don't think there is anything conservative about waiting fo rme it would be radical. mine was 2.5 cm plus whatever in my right frontal lobe. depending on...
JoAnne, Don't worry too much... It's been 1 1/2 years since my "M" surgery (4/1/05). Mine was 4.0 X 4.5 CM in the left frontoparietal area. I just had my last...
Hi. Amazing to have the same size/location of tumor! There are so many different stories. I was having headaches but they don't think that the tumor was...
Dear Amenah, I do take one more medication, but only when I am haivng difficulty becuase of nightime seizures.....i get so so so sleepy...cannot seem to stay...
I had vertigo and was ever so slightly and ever so occassionally dragging my right foot. But according to NS those symptoms were not caused by the tumor. Mine ...
HI Vickie, "Why wait" is certainly a valid question and the first guy I saw said the same thing. I like the third guy I saw the best and what he said makes...
My M was also in the 1.2 size range, but on the spheroid wing, near the optic nerve. One NS told me I could wait, but another, who does more brain surgeries ...
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