Should I choose to do surgery right away or wait a while?

I'm so happy for your experience and outcome. Keep on the mend. I just learned yesterday about upcoming biological agents specific for benign meningiomas. It's a long way off yet but three patients have been treated this experimental way and all went well. This is a one location, very limited experiment. But it's promising bc they found a specific chromosome abnormality in the meningioma solid tumor they are trying to address as a treatment.
Until then, most of us can be thankful the meningiomas are not cancerous and get our best currently available treatments.
I'm so happy for you!

I live 30 minutes from Duke so if you need to travel or anything, let me know and I can help while you are here. You can email me at hollyj1962@yahoo.com.
Sending hugs and blessings,
Holly Richard

So interesting about the "upcoming biological agents" you mention. When I looked this idea up on the internet, it spoke of this treatment as if only for cancerous tumors, so I am very curious. I am meeting with a neurosurgeon tomorrow and will definitely ask about this new area. Thank you for enlightening me!

I wish I could pull up that medical pub reference in time. Gonna try but it is doubtful. It was a 3 person, 1 location cohort. I do so much medical reading I can't recall which source. But I'll try to locate it. Even if it's later in the week.

Thank you!

My wife had brain surgery to remove a tumor of similar size on July 6. The surgery went well and the surgeon said he got all of the tumor he could. Her recovery from the surgery was remarkable as it was on July 6 and she left the hospital on July 8 after on two nights there. Her recovery at home was uneventful and she had little pain which was managed by meds for a week or so before she was off those and onto over the counter pain meds. The surgery itself was not extremely difficult for her. The diagnosis of the type of tumor is the most important point in my estimation, as that dictates the follow up care. The direction of the surgeon as far as what they feel they can remove and what side effects are the important factors in the decision. In my wife's case, there were no real side affects from the surgery itself. If you are not confident with what the surgeon is telling you get a second opinion before proceeding. Wishing you success and may God bless you.

So my surgeon and I decided that the tumor affecting my trigeminal nerves and the pons will create more problems if we allow it to grow so surgery has been scheduled in two weeks. I’ve been anxious and nervous but I’m trusting the process. Thanks to all the positive feedback. Y’all are giving me courage to go through the surgery❤️

Thank you for your response!
Glad to heat about tour wife’s successful surgery…The surgeon is giving me 6 months to sit on it, also to find out how fast the tumor will grow. Its been a couple months since we’ve discussed it but I am seeing more changes/symptoms so I feel like if I wait and the tumor grows, I’d have more problems. But if I go thru surgery, i’m worried about the ‘what if’s’ since the tumor is pressing on the pons, putting pressure on my trigeminal nerves.