Meningioma, intracranial tumor, can have different symptoms.
It is important to know for meningioma the symptoms that may indicate the presence of this tumor. Indeed, it develops in most cases inside the skull. It can also be located, but more rarely, along the spine. Meningioma has slow growth, from 1 to 3 mm per year. It can therefore increase in volume over time without the affected person realizing it.
Thus, some symptoms may indicate the fact of suffering from meningioma. For people who have taken medication such as Androcur , Lotényl or Luteran : the meningioma (s) can stabilize or regress the stopping of medication. It is particularly important to detect the presence of meningioma as soon as possible. This can avoid an operation of the tumor which is a heavy surgical treatment.
Meningioma symptoms
Symptoms may vary depending on people and also depending on the location of the tumor:
- Unusual and increasingly frequent headache
- Dizziness , loss of balance, absences memory loss , speech loss, speech problems;
- Vision disorders : blurred vision, double vision, decrease in the vision of an eye, exophthalmia (exorbity eye);
- Hearing disorders , tinnitus ;
- Loss of smell ;
- Epilepsy crises ;
- Weakness in the arms or legs, paralysis ;
- Personality changes;
- fatigue ;
- Hyperostosis (thickening of a skull bone such as the temple).
- It is important to know that a meningioma can give no symptoms for years, apart from a diffuse depressive feeling and various and varied disorders, the cause of which can be sought for years without success.
What to do in case of symptoms?
If you suffer from one or more of its symptoms, consult your doctor quickly. He will prescribe an MRI with injection , an examination to identify the tumor. Currently, waiting times for MRIs are sometimes long, between two to six months.
A route for patients treated with Androcur, Lotéran Lotényl, or other progestogen has been set up by the Neuro-Sainte-Anne
