Can my menigioma grow that quickly?

Posted by mcamero83 @mcamero83, Aug 8, 2025

I had a CT scan done on a Thursday and my menigioma was 1.5 cm, the following Wednesday I had an MRI and it was it was 3 cm. Is this possible? Is it normal? This is all new to me.

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my tumor was over two inches in size and cancerous. had more than one doctor checking me out and what testing along with surgery and what type , what kind of chemo mix will work? my world was kayos overnight. didn't know how 2 cm tumor and growing fast could just drop me in my tracks, but it did. i lost 9 months of memory due to the location of the tumor and frontal lobe right side of the brain . a little while after the initial surgery i had a bleeder they had to go back in and fix but i had faith, and i am a fighter. have to believe in what the brain is capable of and the people that love you. i had multitudes of prayer groups that had prayer chains going. yes i ama believer. that's ok .im 68 and rocking the doctors with what i am getting done. so many seizure's and here i am doing exercise routine, walk 3000 steps daily and defying what doctors said cant be done.. right now cancer free and looking for a girlfriend. Catch me if you can.....

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Thank you.

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Glad to hear that you had some answers and it helped 👍

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my tumor was over two inches in size and cancerous. had more than one doctor checking me out and what testing along with surgery and what type , what kind of chemo mix will work? my world was kayos overnight. didn't know how 2 cm tumor and growing fast could just drop me in my tracks, but it did. i lost 9 months of memory due to the location of the tumor and frontal lobe right side of the brain . a little while after the initial surgery i had a bleeder they had to go back in and fix but i had faith, and i am a fighter. have to believe in what the brain is capable of and the people that love you. i had multitudes of prayer groups that had prayer chains going. yes i ama believer. that's ok .im 68 and rocking the doctors with what i am getting done. so many seizure's and here i am doing exercise routine, walk 3000 steps daily and defying what doctors said cant be done.. right now cancer free and looking for a girlfriend. Catch me if you can.....

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Thank you for your response.

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my tumor was over two inches in size and cancerous. had more than one doctor checking me out and what testing along with surgery and what type , what kind of chemo mix will work? my world was kayos overnight. didn't know how 2 cm tumor and growing fast could just drop me in my tracks, but it did. i lost 9 months of memory due to the location of the tumor and frontal lobe right side of the brain . a little while after the initial surgery i had a bleeder they had to go back in and fix but i had faith, and i am a fighter. have to believe in what the brain is capable of and the people that love you. i had multitudes of prayer groups that had prayer chains going. yes i ama believer. that's ok .im 68 and rocking the doctors with what i am getting done. so many seizure's and here i am doing exercise routine, walk 3000 steps daily and defying what doctors said cant be done.. right now cancer free and looking for a girlfriend. Catch me if you can.....

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Thank you Jason

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Some of the noise is pretty loud even if they use earplugs. It's tougher when you're older and have needs.

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This is one of the few times that I’m grateful that I’m really,
really deaf. I wear the ear plugs during the scan on the chance that intense sound could further damage my hearing, but don’t hear anything no matter what I do.

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the problem with the noise is for those that have sensitive hearing is that it can be frighteningly loud, and uncomfortable, even getting on the table can be difficult and scry. it would be great if they could adapt a set, like the headset you can wear for music over both ears be put on and pulled toward your chest or extended to go over the head and you could enjoy music or just ocean sounds. Wouldn't be that difficult to convert a couple of pairs and not costly to make the extensions to be kept out of the way. would save a lot of blood pressure problems from stress. that and explain to the individual even if you have to write it for them what the procedure does, precisely what the next minuets will dictate. like for elderly folk with hard hearing or patients with other limitations.

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I dont think it is "normal" to imprison people in tight boxes and make loud noises . looking business like is irrelevant.

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Would you rather not have a possibly serious medical condition diagnosed and treated rather than a few minutes of inconvenience?

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the problem with the noise is for those that have sensitive hearing is that it can be frighteningly loud, and uncomfortable, even getting on the table can be difficult and scry. it would be great if they could adapt a set, like the headset you can wear for music over both ears be put on and pulled toward your chest or extended to go over the head and you could enjoy music or just ocean sounds. Wouldn't be that difficult to convert a couple of pairs and not costly to make the extensions to be kept out of the way. would save a lot of blood pressure problems from stress. that and explain to the individual even if you have to write it for them what the procedure does, precisely what the next minuets will dictate. like for elderly folk with hard hearing or patients with other limitations.

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They have headphones that they talk to me through and also it plays whatever music I choose went I get my MRIs. They also have a mirror that points toward the technician so you can see them. I usually close my eyes though.

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I do have a concern of what all these repeated MRIs are doing to my brain. They don’t seem to have any solid studies (at least that I’ve seen) done on it.

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From my understanding, the typical MRI measures 3 different "planes" and it can be confusing depending on who is interpreting it. For instance, mine reads "3.4 cm AP x 3.3 cm TR x 3.7 cm CC". AP is anterior posterior, measuring from front to back, like horizontal from face to back of skull. TR is transverse, like horizontal from side to side or ear to ear. CC is craniocaudal, vertical from top to bottom of skull. From my own unprofessional but obsessive research (lol), the measurements are supposed to be done on each "plane" starting and ending at the largest part of the plane. I get confused too, because to say a tumor is say "2 cm" on a report, seems to be leaving out other important information, in my opinion. I would suggest getting clarification from your neurosurgeon. Also, from my experience, mine was originally found on a CT, which isn't as good as accurate in detecting measuring a meningioma as an MRI is. That is what I have been told by my neurosurgeon. I'd also ask if that measurement is referring to total "volume".

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