In my turn to provide my testimony concerning this Thursday, June 11, 2021, which changed my life.

My name is Sophie, I am 51 years old and I took Lotéran for a year and lutenyl for 5 years.

For several months, I had very pain at the head of day and night, and I felt like a vice around my head in the evening. I was taking paracetamol and ibuprofen to relieve these pains. In addition, I lost my balance at times, I stumbled upon certain words, the light of the lamps dazzled me on the right, I was super jovial, very extroverted but very tired. However, not wanting to worry anyone, I gave the change.

My doctor, told me that all of this was linked to stress, the premenopause that worked me, in short nothing serious. I insisted on spending an MRI, I knew there was a risk of meningiomas with the progestins I had taken. In addition, my father died in 1976 from a tumor to the head. Rooming I was not serene.

I made my appointment with a radiologist teacher at the Rennes University Hospital, there I was very lucky. Immediately my MRI passed, he was waiting for me in his office. He explained to me that I had a 5 cm meningiom in the head , image in support. It was located on the right located on the small wing of the sphenoid and on the right anterior clinical process with peri-lesional edema and a beginning of contralateral hydrocephalus.

When I write that I was very lucky, it is that this teacher did not let me leave and took me to the third floor in the neurosurgery service. I stayed there for 5 days, under morphine and corticosteroid, a neurosurgeon (who became my neurosurgeon) came to explain to me that my case would be studied with other neurosurgeons and that I would have an operation. They let me go out for a week so that I could prepare and organize myself.

What is amazing is that throughout this period, I was not afraid. I went up the morale of the troops, I sent pictures of me in sexy outfit: blouse, charlotte and compression socks, just before leaving to have me operated, I took care of my neighbors, older than me. In short, I was incredibly strength. My colleagues told me that I was euphoric limit.

The neurosurgeon wanted to receive us, my husband and myself to explain the risks of this operation to us.

Avc, loss of my right eye, post -operative hematoma and infectious risks, that's what I could have.

The operation took place on June 24, 2021. In the evening, I woke up in intensive care, without any sequelae. The next day, I returned to a room alone for 48 hours, I walked in the morning, my dressing was removed the next day. I got out on June 29 from the hospital.

My neuro surgeon warned me by saying to me, your morale will drop . Indeed this was the case. July, August and early September were complicated. The anxiety came, I realized what had happened to me. In July my neurosurgeon was on vacation, I no longer had a doctor because she left, and I live in a small village. But here again, I was lucky because a network of benevolent people formed: the secretaries of the neurosurgery service, my veterinarian, the liberal nurses, the pharmacists, my hypnotérapeuthe, my psychotérapeuthe and my osteopath really helped me. I also had, my husband, my children, my sister, my friends and my colleagues who were permanent support.

Today I am still on stop, my neurosurgeon had found me very anxious and very tired at my post op meeting in September. He wanted to stop me until January 3. He told me that my attending physician had to prescribe a recovery in therapeutic time.

I am under the MSA (Mutualité Social Agricole) regime. I had an appointment on December 29 with the occupational doctor. This one did not want me to resume. He asked for an additional month because he knows the pressure of the management centers.

I'm better, I don't sleep a lot so fatigue persists.

I hope to resume on January 31, just to resume the course of my professional life.

I would like to reassure the people who will have their surgery. Indeed it is not a trivial operation, and after, is a source of anxiety . However, thanks to the association, the people we meet and ourselves (we Warriors 🙂), we manage to get out and move forward.

I advise everyone to join the AMAVEA association. The work of Emmanuelle Mignaton, Sarah Cahlan, and Nathalie Grillot (and her super blog), deserves all our support.

May the force be with you 🙂

Sophie