I am sure you sharing your positive experience will be encouraging to others who are in the process of accepting that they need to have the surgery. I do feel that the location of the meningioma can make a big difference with regard to our personal experience. Mine was removed 3 weeks ago and was 1/16th of an inch from my optic nerve. A post surgery MRI showed that the entire 3 centimenter meningioma was resected and no damage to the optic nerve in the process, but my recovery has been difficult. I have severe double vision and a lot of what I assume is zinging nerve pain on the left side of my head. As in real estate, I assume location, location, location, can make all the difference in our surgical outcome.

Thank you for sharing your positive experience. I’ve been on a watch and wait since my diagnosis of an olfactory groove meningioma in 2020. It is growing approximately 1mm a year and now measures 2cm. I’ve consulted with at least 5 surgeons and all of them have a different approach. My insurance does not cover surgery outside of CA. How did you pick your surgeon and decide on an approach?

Bella, where was the location of your meningiomas? Your positive comment after surgery is encouraging. I’m waiting to have surgery after my daughter’s wedding in June of 2024. Not knowing the outcome is frightening.

Just wondering with such small meningiomas, why your NS did not suggest gamma knife instead of going thru surgery?