March 29, 2024

‘I thought I just had tinnitus but it was a brain tumour’ – Wales Online

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In 2019, Jessica Jones, 38, a commercial banker from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire started suffering with tinnitus.

As a mum-of-three, with a hectic life, the ringing in her ears came and went, and was only really noticeable at bed time.

But by June, 2020, Jessica had begun to suffer with headaches which were so painful they were waking her up in the night, so she went to her GP for answers.

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In 2019, Jessica Jones, 38, a commercial banker from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire started suffering with tinnitus.

As a mum-of-three, with a hectic life, the ringing in her ears came and went, and was only really noticeable at bed time.

But by June, 2020, Jessica had begun to suffer with headaches which were so painful they were waking her up in the night, so she went to her GP for answers.

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Jessica said: “I didn’t actually get to see the GP because it was in the middle of the pandemic, but he prescribed me migraine tablets. I told him I’d never had migraines in my life, but I took the tablets and the GP said if it doesn’t improve by the following Monday to come back.”

“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.”

A few days later, Jessica returned to the GP and was referred for a CT scan. During the two to three-week wait for a scan, her blood pressure became abnormally high and she was admitted to Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli for further tests.

Jessica recalled the day she went into hospital on her own due to Covid restrictions and after two days of tests was given the devastating news that she had an acoustic neuroma causing pressure on her brain stem.

“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.”

“I phoned my husband to tell him which was heartbreaking, all he wanted to do was to come and sit at the end of the bed and tell me everything was going to be alright – but I couldn’t have that.”

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Source: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/i-thought-just-tinnitus-brain-22809032

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