Hi ladies, I haven’t been on here for a while as all has been good but am starting to panic a bit and know you’ll help me out.
I was dx nearly 5 years ago aged 28, Grade 3, no lymph nodes involved, Chemo, rads, Tamoxifen and now Zoladex as Tamoxifen wasn’t working.
Anyway…
Since starting Zoladex 6 months ago I have been getting migraines.(never suffered with head aches before).
For the last week or so I have been getting a pain to the side of my hair crown, its not a headache more like an uncomfortable soreness as if I have banged my head. Very often it tingles too and is very sore when I apply pressure to that area.
I am taking 2 ibruprofen and 2 paracetamol every 6 hours as told to do so by my doc (over the phone, haven’t actually seen her yet) but the pain is constantly there. It is there when I wake up and there when I go to bed and very often by time I go to bed I have a massive headache and feel very unwell. The other night it was even sore just to lay on that side of my head.
Obviously I am now thinking I have a brain tumour and am beginning to panic.
What are the symptoms of spread to the brain ???
Please help ladies, any advice would be much appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Mandy
I will feed in my thoughts. It is just possible that it could be bone mets as opposed to brain mets. Some time before my bone secondaries were diagnosed I had the awful tenderness and soreness in my skull, mine was most noticeable at night or when I rested my head down on anything. It was only in restrospect that I realised what it was and the bone mets were all over my skull. It would certainly be the lesser of two evils, although better still would be that it was completely unrelated to bc. You obviously need to get it checked out. Don’t let you GP fob you off with more pills - you do need to be sure it is not bc related.