Complete List Of Brain Tumor Symtoms

Complete List Of Brain Tumor Symptoms

The most complete list of brain tumor symptoms that I could find is listed below.

I must stress again that our experience most of these were not present.

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Headache -- a persistent headache that is new for the person, worse on awakening
Vomiting -- possibly accompanied by nausea; more severe in the morning
Personality and behavior changes
Emotional instability, rapid emotional changes
Loss of memory, impaired judgment
Seizures that are new for the person
Reduced alertness
Double vision, decreased vision
Hearing loss
Decreased sensation of a body area
Weakness of a body area
Speech difficulties
Decreased coordination, clumsiness, falls
Fever (sometimes)
Weakness, lethargy
General ill feeling
Positive Babinski's reflex
Decerebrate posture
Decorticate posture

Additional symptoms that may be associated with primary brain tumors:

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Tongue problems
Swallowing difficulty
Impaired sense of smell
Obesity
Uncontrollable movement
Dysfunctional movement
Absent menstruation
Hiccups
Hand tremor
Facial paralysis
Eye abnormalities
pupils different sizes
uncontrollable movements
eyelid drooping
Confusion
Breathing, absent temporarily
Unusual or strange behavior

This all came from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007222.htm

Warning About Brain Tumor Symptoms

There is one thing that I MUST say.

Not all the symptoms will be present, it may only be very few symptoms of the Brain Tumor that are present. You MUST be aware of this. My Dad did not ever ever have a headache. Even though he has a Brain Tumor the size of a golf ball in his head.

Never did he have a headache, or nausea or anything like that.

I always found this surprising, but that is what happened.

So when on the lookout for a Brain Tumor, or when you think someone has the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor, just remember not all of the symptoms will be displayed.

Brain Tumor Symptoms - Area of the Brain

I didn't know that until recently, but it makes perfect sense. My Dad's tumor is right down in the middle of the brain, just near where his optic nerves join on. Hence we now guess why his vision was effected. It also effects his balance and some of the nervous responses.

What can you expect with a brain tumor down there in that part of the brain. Well sight affected, balance affected, muscular movement affected. The brain tumor my Dad has must be on the left hand side as his entire left hand side is affected. Left arm, left leg, left eye etc. He has huge trouble looking left and the peripheral vision on the left hand side is now almost non-existent.

Enough of me rabbiting on, the following are the best guesses I could find about what affect different the location of the brain tumor has on the symptoms of the patient.

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Frontal lobe tumors - Changes in personality and intellect. Un-coordinated walking or weakness of one side of the body. Loss of smell, occasional speech difficulties.

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Parietal lobe - Difficulty in speaking or understanding words. Problems with writing or reading. Difficulty in co-ordinating certain movements. Difficulty finding your way around. Difficulty with numbers (doing simple calculations). Numbness or weakness on one side of the body.
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Occipital lobe - Loss of vision on one side. The person may not notice this at first and it may sometimes be discovered during routine eye tests.
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Temporal lobe - Fits may cause strange sensations: a feeling of fear or intense familiarity (dé jà vu), strange smells or blackouts. Speech difficulties and memory problems.
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Cerebellum - Lack of co-ordination which affects walking and speech (dysarthria), unsteadiness, flickering involuntary movement of the eyes (nystagmus). Vomiting and neck stiffness.
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Brain stem - Unsteadiness and an un-coordinated walk. Facial weakness, a one-sided smile or drooping eyelid. Double vision. Rarely, vomiting or headache just after waking; difficulty in speaking and swallowing. Symptoms may appear gradually.

This came from http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Brain/Causesdiagnosis/Symptoms

The image also came from them.

Maths A Brain Tumor Symptom?

My Dad really lost his maths ability.

That sounds a bit odd I know, but I will give you an example. One day he was putting some shade cloth over a pergola, this was about 18 months before we knew about the tumor. The pergola was 3m by 5m in rectangular area, and he could not figure out how much shade cloth he needed.

Not just a minor I'm having a bit of trouble, but a major it took 3 days for him to figure that out. This is from a person that worked on a farm all his life and could easily do this. He also knew he should be able to figure it out. But he just couldn't do it.

This was also the case with another person that I spoke to about their brain tumor, they had simple maths problems they could not figure out, even though they were an electrical engineer. The issue was not the calculation, but how to do it, the problem solving.