symptoms

edslas said:

diffuse astrocytoma grade II symptoms
I was just diagnosed with diffuse astrocytoma grade II. I had two minor seizures at work while talking to colleagues. I'm an engineer, and the conversations are quite involved. 45 minutes into the conversation, my mind went blank, I forgot what we were discussing, and was not sure where I was. I had awareness to say I was not feeling well, then noticed that I could not move my left arm. The loss of motor control lasted 1-2 minutes, but my mind did not come back for 20-30 minutes. This happened twice, about a month apart. I am not a fan of going to the doctor and just blew off these incidents. Then, every couple of days I would loose the ability to concentrate. These episodes would last 10-20 minutes. I would not be able to read my email and understand what people were trying to say. It was very confusing. During these spells, I kind of had to fight my eyes from going cross-eyed. This is what sent me to the doctor, I need to concentrate for long periods on my job. I also had a very hard time getting through the day. I usually work long hours with no problem, but then I would be totally exhausted at the end of the day. I have not had the motor control issues for two months now, but I am on Keppra (anti-seizure).

After the diagnosis I have a hard time sleeping, but I think this is from the stress of knowing about it. This is not helping with the daily exhaustion.

I found this article about dealing with exhaustion:

http://www.brainsciencefoundation.org/matriarch/documents/bt_and_fatigue.pdf

symptoms
please see my post entitled "symptoms" as a new discussion. I was on keppra and it was terrible. I was in serious depression after a week on it. I'm on topomax now and it's much better. I have many symptoms, seizures, headaches, abnormal tissue, but the ct scans and mri show no tumor, but the eeg shows something wrong in the left temple. ... the neuro will do a ct scan of the temple area really close up to look at the tissue which he says is some kind of "..plasia"?? tissue..... do you have any idea what he might be talking about?

adnilorotrot said:

symptoms
please see my post entitled "symptoms" as a new discussion. I was on keppra and it was terrible. I was in serious depression after a week on it. I'm on topomax now and it's much better. I have many symptoms, seizures, headaches, abnormal tissue, but the ct scans and mri show no tumor, but the eeg shows something wrong in the left temple. ... the neuro will do a ct scan of the temple area really close up to look at the tissue which he says is some kind of "..plasia"?? tissue..... do you have any idea what he might be talking about?

Not really brain tumor but close
I have Extramedullary plasmacytoma in my left paranasal region that made an intracranial extension to my brain,.. The first symptom that I had was dizzy spells, I felt like everything was spinning then when the tumor grew I had a very painful headache that wouldn't go away with ordinary meds