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How long does it take for a meningioma tumor to grow large?
Brain Tumor | Last Active: May 14 2:28pm | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
Did all you systems go away after removing it? Hong were you in the hospital? What was your recovery time at home? Any pain?
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What do you mean symptoms? Yes most went away. I had some lingering ones. Eyesight was affected, had blurry vision for a few months which has gone away completely. Have unnoticeable periferal vision loss. I was only in hospital for 2 days not typical according to my doctor. I had an exceptional surgeon. I was able to immediately shower & walk although walking was a bit scary as balance was off a little for the first few weeks especially. And it did take a few months to be able to play games as odd as that may sound. My mental ability to recall instructions was hard. Recovery is hard to gauge, I feel like the physical recovery with stitches and such from surgery was at least 6/8 weeks. The mental part was and still kind of is for me as I am healing mentally from this. It’s been slow and it is things like memory recollection & mental tasks. I have a lot of numbness on the same side as my tumor was on my head, eyebrow & eye. Still there but taking a long time to go away completely. As for pain, no pain ever on my incision which ran completely across to top of my head down my right side to my ear. Not sure if normal & didn’t have the mental capacity to ask prior to surgery. Hope this info helps but it does seem like every person’s experience is different.
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Some of my symptoms went away but not all. I was told that is pretty standard. That being that once certain symptoms set in the surgery and/or radiation won't necessarily eradicate the symptoms but should prevent things from getting worse. I was in the "step down" unit at UCSF for 2 nights. (That is one level lower than the intensive care unit but not on the regular floor.)
I really was never in any pain. I was told by my first nurse that 800 mg. of tylenol every 6-8 hours was the standard pain med for brain surgery and that worked well. I was discharged with no prescription pain medicine. Just to continue with the tylenol. The craniotomy was not as bad as I had imagined/stressed about it being. My husband took care of me at home but I was able to walk and use the restroom unassisted. I had a 3 cm. meningioma resected from behind my eye. Good luck to you.