How do you recover from a major brain tumour operation?
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Try following the doctors recommendations but also don't worry about getting a second opinion. Ask around in your community for a homeopathic doctor (I am going to see one in my community soon) and just call and ask, an appointment might not even be necessary.  Also anything that is high in antioxidants will help.
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I have had the same problem. The best way is to drink water, don't run for about two or three weeks and make sure you drink a lot or eat a lot of protein to help your body recover.  Also get running shoes, I haven't done that yet, but everyone says running shoes will help prevent that from happening in the future.
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Hi, I feel so so so sorry for you, personally if I was you I would sit down with your friends family and the 2 surgeons and just ask them what is the pros and cons.\n\nSurely they will be able to give you some advice on this, you can't go thru all of this without some help or advice.\n\nAlso, ask the neurosurgeon for his advice and just tell him that you don't want to do anything without his approval cos at the end of the day it is your life that will be wrecked not theirs and not your families.\n\nAlso, if your surgeon rings you up ask him to talk to you over the phone and ask him the questions and get him to answer them, if he can and just pour your heart out to him tell him you don't want him to do the 15hr operation.\n\nYour surgeon will do whats best for you he won't let you down over all of these years.\n\nIf he did operate what would happen would you get paralyasis permantely and the blindness will that be permant whatever way you go?\n\nTry asking for a shunt to be put in I know you mentioned it in the additional details but that could save you and does that stay in their for life?\n\nAnyway good luck for this upcoming operation but please really think about it and I hope you get all the answers you need for you to make your decision.\n\nTake your time in thinking about it, it is your life your talking about here not theirs, also I have one more point for you!!!!!!\n\nLets say you didn't have these operations would you go blind? \nAnd also if you had the operations what happens in later life?\nHave you got to have it done again or will the shunt keep the fluid away?\n\nPlease add additional information\n\nThanks and the very best of luck?
491945
Hate to tell you this, but normal recovery takes 6 months to one year.  Sorry!  Hope you feel better.
1090947
I would suggest from 2 to 6 weeks.\nTo be absolutely sure consult your\nhealth care provider.\nI wish you a speedy recovery.
1124643
Having gone through this - it's a matter of 'retraining' the brain to understand that Bed is for sleeping !\n\nIf you can't get to sleep within about 15 mins., get up, go to another room, have a cuppa, read a book (don't watch TV) until the eyes start feeling tired.\nGo back to bed, take a few deep breaths and relax.\n\nRepeat as required, which may take several nights.\nThe important thing is not to lie in bed Trying to get to sleep, get up and start again.\n\n8 out of 10 people suffer from lack of sleep - 3 out of 4 post- operative patients suffer from this!\n\nIt's important not to stimulate the brain before bedtime - stop watching TV an hour before going to bed - don't have alcohol/coffee/cola or anything with caffeine in it - try to empty your mind of the days activities.
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drink a lot of water\neat some thing salty\ntake tylenol AND ibuprofen\nsleep more,\nsmoke some weed (used in cancer patients to help headaches and nausea)\ndon't drink so much next time.\ngood luck:)
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See the book "Surviving 'Terminal' Cancer". The author survived a brain tumor the size of an orange. One thing he used was a "cocktail" of drugs that his is confident helped his chemotherapy. The book also discusses clinical trials and other brain tumor treatments your oncologist may not tell you about.
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Freeze.  They can bring you back when they find a cure :)
589157
Most all of us have had trauma to the head at one time or another.  Since we are made to be healthy, thankfully, there are no serious consequences.  For some, the trauma is more drastic.  Even so, we recover and carry on.  I had a brain tumor.  That is traumatic.  But I took it in stride and there are no recognizable consequences whatsoever.
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I'm not sure of the function of the Left Sylvian Fissure but there is a way to remove tumors a, cancerous and non cancerous from the brain that are inoperable if the funcion of the brain isn't to compromised. I underwent a procedure called Gamma Knife Surgery. It uses radiosugery with radiation to destroy brain matter. There are only 100 gamma knifes in the U.S. I think so it's a specialized tool.
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Go to the best university hospital near your home. Go to the emergency room and tell them you are having intermittent loss of vision and that you demand to be admitted. They can't turn you away and you would have to receive treatment. You might eventually have a huge bill but you are only 24 so bankruptcy is not really a big deal compared to a brain tumor. The important thing is to insist on being admitted for treatment. Don't take no for an answer.  good luck
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Finish off all your duties and pay any loans you may have and pray, because nobody is certain of what is going to happen to him.\n\nWish you all the best, and may the surgery be a success.
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I just passed my four year anniversary for the removal of my 4 x 7 cm left frontal meningioma. It was pushing the left side of my brain into the right. That first MRI was a scary one.\n\nTwo years ago, I was faded off dilantin/zonegran on the same slow and steady rate without problem. I hadn't had a seizure, but scans showed "abnormal activity" that could be seizure related. My neurologist said after surgery for a brain tumor you'd expect there to be some "abnormal activity".  Dilantin made me so tired it was great being free from it. \n\nGood Luck, there are more of us out there than you think.
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RICHARD HAKE: Dr, Rocket? You said you had a severe headache. When you had that headache did you realize it was the stroke or were there any other symptoms? \n\nHOWARD ROCKET, DDS: Well, if I would have been more educated to the signs and the symptoms of a stroke, I would have known that my... I had some blurred vision... and I was having headaches for.... I'd say, may be a week before the stroke actually happened.... continuous headaches. But, I've had migraines before, so I just sort of thought may be it was just a migraine. But, I was also having blurred vision. I didn't have any slurred speech and I didn't have any loss of balance that I can remember. But mostly, as I said earlier, it was a blurred vision and then real severe headaches \n\nRICHARD HAKE: Okay. Here's another question from Angie: 'Is there a possibility of regaining speech and the ability to understand speech after a large stroke to the left hemisphere?' I guess, Dr. Rocket, how soon after you were through the emergency room did you regain your speech? \n\nHOWARD ROCKET, DDS: It took about 4 weeks, and my speech came back very, very slowly.... then finally came back totally. \n\nRICHARD HAKE: Can you answer that question about regaining speech and the ability to understand speech after a large stroke to the left hemisphere? \n\nSTEPHAN MAYER, MD: About recovering speech, basically, what I tell my patients is that everyone gets better from a stroke. And that's the rule. And it's usually about that second day after... when you're out.... you know, when you're in the pits, it can't get any worse than that. And then over a process of weeks to months later, patients go about rebuilding their lives. But absolutely-- language functions can improve with time and, you know, I guess it raises the point that, you know, don't get discouraged, you know, it can happen, it will happen, you need the right kind of attitude and you do need real good effective rehabilitation. You need to deal with professionals who know what they are doing. But it doesn't matter if its weakness, or a speaking problem, or vision, or whatever, walking-- all these things do get better unless you are very, very unfortunate.
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............. and the miracle of instant recovery?
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brain tumor, a bump or bruise