Guys, it won't go away!! (brain tumour scare)

Vivianna,

I completely understand & have been there. It's a miserable thing to be in daily fear. Really take into consideration the odds of you having a brain tumor though. (pretty slim chance) Aside from that, occasional sharp stabbing pains in your head are common anxiety/stress symptoms and as for your leg going "weird" you mentioned if you work too much it happens. That makes me think it's probably muscular in origin or possibly a nerve being temporarily impinged. If it was brain tumor related I'm thinking your symptoms would remain constant regardless of physical activity.

Tell yourself "I'm okay!", work on your deep breathing & relaxation techniques. As I said, I've dwelled on this exact fear for too long with the stabbing head pains & the whole nine yards too eventually having a brain MRI that showed no brain tumor

When your leg has symptoms next time try stretching it. Remember, the more we dwell on something the more we can usually feel it ;-) I just don't want for you to worry unnecessarily for so long like I did.

I hope you get relief from this fear soon. Keep us posted.

I know what you are afraid of you think something like this is going to turn your lights out and there is no
switch to turn them back on, this is not going to happen there's a time for that and right now you need to
be busy living, living a good life filled with things that make you feel good about yourself is the only cure for
the fear of death. Look at it this way Viv we all already have to do this somewhere in the future, isn't once
enough, what you are doing to yourself is dying several times a day, don't do this to yourself, heck Viv dying is the very last thing i'm going to do. "Well I do kinda worry about my judgment I think I will plead stupid"! lol It should be an easy sell with my history!
Now back to your fear, I have known several people (remember I'm 71) who have come down with this terrible condition, not one had your symptoms, (which I will not describe) we are all too prone to suggestion. "just to give you some reason to realize that your fear is not rational several people on here have hand the same exact fear. when that is ruled out, they find something else to worry about, go look in the mirror and tell yourself to get ready for a fight, you are not going to allow something like fear to rob you of the wonderful now that is all around you, then give yourself an affirmative complement and put your running shoes on and walk directly at your fears, and just watch they will melt like the mist at dawn,
because you have awakened to a brand new life, and its beautiful.
Larry ***

Hello! Just wanted to share my story as well. I had this same fear about a year ago so bad that I lost 15 pounds (I weigh 120 so it was a drastic change!). I had EVERY symptom, I was so scared. I couldn't walk straight, I was so dizzy, I would wake up at night heart racing scared to go back to sleep because I thought I was going to die of an aneurysm, Im telling you it ruined me!! I see my PCP every 3 months so he finally got tired of hearing me say I have a brain tumor and scheduled me for a CT scan of my brain (ive had headaches my whole life, migraines and headaches run in my family) Ive had the sharp pains, seeing stars, blurry vision, nauseas, I mean every symptom under the sun for brain tumor. I finally went and had the CT scan and of course, it was perfect. Ive also been to the ER for my migraines and have had probably 2 more since then, and of course, everything is fine. I mean I lost sleep for months over thinking I had a brain tumor I made myself SICK. Now Ive been stuck on trying to come to grips that my heart is fine because now Ive moved onto thinking I have heart disease even though Ive been to many drs. cardiologists specialists had many tests performed, etc etc. What it all comes down to is this is another health anxiety fear that a lot of us have had. The two biggest worries that I have seen others worry about is brain tumors (and aneurysms and heart disease). Anxiety is a monster! Have you seen your Dr in a while for a physical / check up? My Dr said he would be able to tell just by looking in my eyes because they can tell by the pressure and the pupils etc etc. If you are THAT worried, Id ask your Dr to send you to get a CT scan or they can do them in the ER (I guess it also depends on whether you have insurance or not because they are very expensive!).

Hope this helped ease your mind a little! Hope youre feeling better!!

Lacey

Hi vivianna just wanted to reassure you that head pain is very common with anxiety and not so common with brain tumours as people think. Im a nurse and have encoutered a lot of patients with brain tumours in fact my best friend has 5 tumours in her brain at the moment she had never experienced the stabbing pains or effects to the legs you are speaking of. Please try and remember sc words brain tumours esp in abscence of another primary tumour are rare. In my friends case her tumours are a secondary from breast cancer.