Have you Ever Had a Brain Tumor???

Spicy618, usually you don't feel it. Depending on where it is determines if you have any symptoms. Usually brain tumors are found when you have an MRI for something else, i.e. hearing problem, double vision, seizure, etc.

My mom had a meningioma in 2007. Scariest time of my entire life but thankfully she's fine now and back to her old self!

soulfulsally wrote: »

I recently had my own scare, but the MRI showed a healthy brain. I am overjoyed at how many of you beat brain cancer. That's amazing! To the loved ones who didn't survive, I am so sorry for your losses.

Okay, this is really starting to get to me, and I need to clarify some things for you. There is an ENORMOUS difference between a "benign" brain tumor (which is NOT brain cancer) and a "malignant" brain tumor (which is brain cancer). I have a cancerous brain tumor. It was 98% removed almost two years ago. That means they had to leave 2% of it still in there. That's almost a million tiny little cancerous cells are still in my brain, any of which could start growing again at any time. And my tumor is only a grade II. There are grade III and grade IV tumors as well, which grow much, much faster and kill people very quickly. Brain cancer doesn't go into "remission" the way other cancers in the body do. It hangs out in the brain and you hope it doesn't grow again,but it usually does. It is a death sentence, but in my case, it's just a longer one than the one given to a grade III or IV diagnosis. To have your life shortened to 5 or 10 years at the most is a scary thing. I do my best, living my life 6 months at a time between brain scans, hoping the next one will still be clear.
I think anyone who lives through the scariest diagnosis of finding out there is a tumor in his or her brain, is a brave individual. Kudos to Beef and everyone else here who has dealt with either a benign or cancerous brain tumor.