I burst into tears when my GP discovered the real cause for my ‘tinnitus’… – The Sun
HAVING three kids is a handful, and mum Jessica Jones had a hectic lifestyle.
The commercial banker had started to suffer with a ringing in her ears, which is also known as tinnitus.
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Jessica Jones had a ringing in her ear which soon developing into a painful headacheCredit: MEDIA WALES
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The 38-year-old commercial banker lives with her family, husband Mark and daughters in Llanelli in CarmarthenshireCredit: MEDIA WALES
Tinnitus sufferers perceive a noise either in on…….
HAVING three kids is a handful, and mum Jessica Jones had a hectic lifestyle.
The commercial banker had started to suffer with a ringing in her ears, which is also known as tinnitus.
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Jessica Jones had a ringing in her ear which soon developing into a painful headacheCredit: MEDIA WALES
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The 38-year-old commercial banker lives with her family, husband Mark and daughters in Llanelli in CarmarthenshireCredit: MEDIA WALES
Tinnitus sufferers perceive a noise either in one ear, both ears or in their head when there is no external sound.
The sounds most commonly experienced include a ringing, buzzing, whistling, humming or hissing sound.
It was only noticeable at bedtime but progressively got worse – until soon, the 38-year-old was suffering with headaches that were so painful they were waking her up in the night.
It was June 2020 when Jessica got in touch with her GP surgery, but because of the coronavirus pandemic she didn’t get a face-to-face appointment.
Jessica was prescribed migraine medication, even though she had never suffered a migraine before.
She said the GP told her to call back if the pain continued.
Jessica said: “Over the weekend I’d continued to have really bad headaches, I was in horrendous pain with them, I felt a bit dizzy, I just didn’t feel right at all.”
Days later she returned to the GP who, concerned, referred her for a CT scan.
She had to wait close to three weeks for the results and in that time her blood pressure skyrocketed and she was admitted to Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, for further tests.
Because of Covid restrictions Jessica had to go into hospital alone, and it was then she was told she had an acoustic neuroma causing pressure on her brain stem.
She said: “When you hear those words, ‘you’ve got a brain tumour’ – it was terrifying, I was absolutely petrified and I just burst into tears.
“At that point I didn’t know if it was cancerous or not and how quickly it was growing, and all these things just rush through your head. I couldn’t really remember much he said after, I just heard the words ‘You’ve got a brain tumour,’ and, you know, I went to pieces.”
My diagnosis has left me feeling fatigued. I returned to work in September and working from home, sometimes I don’t walk more than 2,000 steps a day
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Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/17423712/burst-into-tears-discovered-real-cause-tinnitus/
