Dominique testimony

In September 2001, I started to have discreet motor disorders. My general practitioner, after a neurological examination, sent me to a neurologist. This specialist prescribed me a brain scanner on which meningioma did not appear because there was no injection. He asked me to spend an MRI that revealed that I suffered from meningioma in the brainstem. An opinion was immediately made to a neurosurgeon at Pellegrin Hospital in Bordeaux. For him, the capture of Androcur was in doubt about the occurrence of this tumor. It was necessary to operate because 100% aggravation not to intervene, risk of consequences for this brain operation because the meningioma was poorly placed. We were at the end of November, the intervention was scheduled for mid-January, there was no urgency to operate, meningioma having very slow growth and my very light symptoms. Unfortunately, I had a brutal aggravation on December 26, 2001 : total loss of balance, diplopia, dysarthria ... I was in the countryside, the region of the region decided that I had to be transported to the emergency room of Pellegrin. I was 53 years old.

The neurosurgeon, Professor Loiseau, whom I had consulted, was on vacation, it was not until January 2, 2002 that he operated on me.

I stayed 2 days in intensive care, 3 weeks in neurosurgery, 3 months in rehabilitation hospital and then I continued this rehabilitation 3 times a week in a rehabilitation center.

There were a lot of consequences to which it was necessary to adapt, a completely altered quality of life, a dependence difficult to bear.

Today, I lead a little life, with many consequences, deprived of freedom because I depend on others for everything. The oculomotor nerve was injured by meningioma and led to an inoperable diplopia, which can be corrected with prisms, unfortunately not completely.

Because of these balance disorders, I made a lot of falls, some without consequences, others more serious: I fractured 4 ribs with pleural effusion, the thumb of the left hand, dislocated the left annular, split the browser arcade ...

I continue a rehabilitation 3 times a week for balance with a physiotherapist who comes to home and 1 time a week with a physiotherapist specializing in balance rehabilitation.

It was when the media reported the relationship between taking Androcur and the risk of meningioma, that I realized that I had taken this product, as part of a TSH several years before the discovery of my meningioma.

Dominique testimony

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