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Hi @km2214, I hope you saw the helpful tips from members as you care for your...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1253951/

Discussion: Your tips: How to support someone recovering from brain surgery?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Mar 9, 2025

M.D. Anderson clinic in Texas is renowned as one of the best cancer clinics in the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1248789/

Discussion: Craniotomy is 2/21/2025. Could use some encouraging words.

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Mar 2, 2025

I’m wondering how deep into the brain tissue was your meningioma? I was told 5 yrs...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1248475/

Discussion: Craniotomy is 2/21/2025. Could use some encouraging words.

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Mar 2, 2025

Where was yours located? Was the surgery complicated in other words….. was it difficult to get...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1247453/

Discussion: Craniotomy is 2/21/2025. Could use some encouraging words.

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Feb 28, 2025

Colleen, Thanks for your reply to reports on my meningioma. I have visits with my PCP...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1232157/

Discussion: Meningioma tracking for 6 years: Good visit with neurologist

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Feb 8, 2025

If my experience is any guide, yes, the seizures once they start will continue. I had...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1227742/

Discussion: Diagnosed with Meningioma: Worried about another seizure

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Feb 2, 2025

3 years ago my meningioma was discovered by accident. I had a dvt in my left...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1226274/

Discussion: Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jan 31, 2025

Hi..My name is Rose and I was diagnosed in 2004 with a schwannoma on the left...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1222335/

Discussion: Anyone else diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jan 26, 2025

@poodlemomfour, I can understand you're afraid. CyberKnife is the name of the machine or device that...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1204642/

Discussion: Cyberknife surgery for Meniogima side effects?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jan 5, 2025

Am I reading your post correctly? The meningioma was first diagnosed in the 1990s and you've...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1178796/

Discussion: Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Nov 23, 2024

I'm 71 and had a crainiotomy for one of two meningiomas pressing on my optic nerve...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1174666/

Discussion: Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Nov 16, 2024

Have you thought of getting a second opinion? Did the doctor specifically say the surgery would...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1174542/

Discussion: Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Nov 16, 2024

I had an MRI in 2018 that showed a meningioma that was growing. I was eligible...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1098467/

Discussion: Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jul 3, 2024

Hi Maryann, I join Mayo Connect in early May '24 and came across your post from...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1095334/

Discussion: Question about titanium plates in head after craniotomy

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jun 27, 2024

I have a GBM 4 diagnosed after surgery on 5/9 this year. I was already on...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1093884/

Discussion: Side effects from medication or progression of glioblastoma?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jun 25, 2024

Joan, How distressing to hear of your consult with a neurologist! Not only did he ignore...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/271914/

Discussion: Lump by screw from gamma knife surgery, anyone else?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Feb 4, 2020

Hi @janoh, I'm just catching up on your daughter's experience with acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma). Here...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/272137/

Discussion: SRS (Stereotactic Radiosurgery) for a benign schwannoma?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Aug 20, 2019

I have a benign meningioma pushing on my spinal cord that I have to have surgery...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/116416/

Discussion: Anyone have multiple meningioma brain tumors?

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Jun 23, 2019

I have a meningioma that was hopefully taken care of by gamma surgery but I am...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/238545/

Discussion: Stereotactic Radiosurgery Surgery (Gamma or Cyberknife) for Meningioma

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Apr 25, 2019

I have had 3 surgeries and done radiation in a 5.5 year time period. Mine first...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/245971/

Discussion: Left Frontal Meningioma surgery recovery

Support Group: Brain Tumor

Posted: Feb 8, 2019

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