What is the reaction to having a brain tumor?

Brain tumor is a very serious tumor. Because it occurs in the brain, it is difficult to treat. On the other hand, if the brain tumor grows quickly, it will often compress the nerves in the brain, causing a variety of symptoms and even posing a great threat to the patient's life safety. Patients often experience headaches, clumsy behavior, difficulty walking, etc. It often causes symptoms such as nausea and vomiting.

The most common symptoms of brain tumors are as follows:

1. Headache

2. Weakness

3. Clumsy behavior

4. Difficulty walking

5. Epileptic seizures

Symptoms and characteristics of brain tumors include:

1. Chronic, progressive headache. In the early stage, the attacks are intermittent. When the headache is severe, it is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The headache will be relieved in a short time after vomiting.

2. Mental disorders with abnormal personality and behavior, such as apathetic expression, slow thinking, or euphoria, irritability, etc.

3. Epilepsy attacks after the age of 20.

4. Males suffer from decreased libido, impotence, and sparse beards; females suffer from menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, and lactation.

5. Aphasia, tinnitus and deafness tend to gradually worsen.

6. Progressive sensory and movement disorders or unstable gait in one limb.

7. The child's head circumference increases beyond normal, the cranial sutures widen, and the scalp veins become dilated.

8. Patients who have had malignant tumors in other parts of the body and gradually develop headaches, vomiting, or hemiplegia, such as brain metastasis of lung cancer or choriocarcinoma.

9. Decreased vision, diplopia, strabismus, visual field (visual range) loss or unilateral exophthalmos due to non-ophthalmological diseases.

3. Non-specific symptoms of brain tumors are as follows:

1. Changes in mental state, concentration, memory, attention and consciousness.

2. Nausea and vomiting — especially in the morning

3. Visual abnormalities

4. Difficulty speaking

5. Progressive intellectual decline or mood changes

For most people, these symptoms develop very gradually and may go unnoticed by the brain tumor patient and their family. Sometimes, however, these symptoms appear very quickly. In some cases, patients may behave as if they are suffering a stroke.

4. If you have any of the following symptoms, please seek help from your doctor immediately:

1. Unexplained persistent vomiting

2. Double vision or unexplained blurred vision, especially on one side

3. Drowsiness or prolonged sleep time

4. New onset of epilepsy

5. New headache

The incidence of brain tumors is not only much lower than that of common diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, but also much lower than that of common breast cancer, lung cancer, and digestive tract tumors among tumors in various parts of the body. Therefore, even if patients have symptoms such as headaches, there is no need to be nervous or afraid. As long as they go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible, the cause of the headache can be found for most people, and the proportion of headaches actually caused by brain tumors is very small.