Hello my dear Steemians,
I would like to invite you to the contest that is running by @khursheedanwar and if you would like to have a look, here is the link:
https://steemit.com/hive-168205/@khursheedanwar/contest-alert-brain-tumor
Brain tumour is something that often being diagnosed when it has a bigger size and starts to give symptoms. Many of us even then do not consider them as an alarm signal and just take it like normal headache but with nowadays with such developed medical service we should encourage people to seek for advice of your doctor sooner rather than later.
I will tell you a case that I came across some times ago and that for us as well as for a patient came out of blue.
So it was very common case of woman approximately about 60 years of age who was referred by her GP (general practitioner) to surgical admission with abdominal pain and being tired, reduced appetite and actually was not able to pinpoint to any specific problem.
She had very close family, husband and children, who were from beginning on there and very concerned.
Initially after blood test, we suspected, mild inflammation of bowel and after antibiotics bloods are improved but patient remained tired, sleepy and still no appetite.
After about 4 days, we were happy for patient to be discharged and when she was going to toilet, nurse noticed that while wanting to open the door she was not able to grab the handle of the door as she was missing it. Also nurse noticed that patient was unsteady and weak on left side, not able to walk properly and felt dizzy.
When we reviewed patient again, she was in bed and felt normal. Her husband then told that she had a bad migraine last month and had to take tablets. She was known to have migraine before. So she did not feel much different, but we decided to do CT scan for head. Initial look at it showed large area of shadow and our first thought that it was stroke. While shortly after report arrived and showed large brain tumour, that was absolutely shock diagnosis for both patient and her family and also for us doctors.
Retrospectively, her worsening migraine was likely growing tumour and only since it reached such size it then gave other symptoms like when people have a stroke. It was good that everything happened while she was in hospital so that we then could refer her to neurosurgeons and neurologist.
My lessons from that do not ignore any headache and better to check with your doctor and not wasting time.
I would like to invite following users @dequeen, @memamun, @sitaraindaryas for the contest.
