Brain tumor is a type of silent health problem, which can grow for many years before the patient feels any change. Economist Andreea Vanacker discovered she had a brain tumor when she woke up with unusual pain. “’I was feeling intense pain that felt like electric shocks on the right side of my face whenever I moved my facial muscles. insider portal.
She was initially diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, chronic pain triggered by inflammation in the nerves that branch out to parts of the face. However, the pain continued to get worse, to the point of affecting his balance and making it difficult to move.
That’s when doctors discovered that Andreea’s discomfort was being caused by a large benign tumor that was pressing on the nerve responsible for controlling facial muscles. She was baffled and showed an MRI that she had 10 years earlier. The tumor already existed at the time, but it was very small, almost imperceptible, and was overlooked by health professionals.
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The woman needed surgery, but the case was more serious than she thought: it was necessary to remove part of the skull and brain to remove the entire tumor. She faced a long recovery, which lasted about a year, but she is relieved to be free of the disease.
Symptoms
Since then, Andreea has shared her story in an effort to raise awareness of the warning signs of brain tumors. She says that she had the tumor even with a healthy lifestyle, avoiding alcohol and coffee, with regular practice of exercises and nights of sleep of at least seven hours.
According to the National Cancer Institute (Inca), some of the main symptoms of brain cancer are headaches (which never happened, with a different type of pain, stronger, more frequently or when they always appear in the same place), epilepsy and loss of neurological functions (strength, touch, vision, hearing, changes in speech, understanding and reasoning, recognizing people, or behavior).
If one or more changes are noticed, it is important to see a doctor to investigate the causes of the problem.
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