Pre-diagnosis

So, I got an appointment with the Neurologist for May 11th 2006. He made me a lot of questions (he even asked me if all my family was that tall, since I am 1.80m); he told me "It's surely stress", but he told me to get a CT Scan.

Around one week after my CT Scan, the radiologist phoned me and told me that I should go the day after to have a CT Scan with contrast, urgently, even without appointment. That was the point when I started becoming concious that there was something in my head. I went to the hospital to find that the machine was broken, after waiting 4 days, I could have it done - the radiologist confessed me that it could be something.

One week after the second Scan, they phoned me again, to tell me that I should ask for an urgent appointment with the Neurosurgeon. Those were the worst moments, because I knew that there was something in my head that should be treated urgently. I also was calmed becaused I wasn't told to go to stay at the Hospital. In my Neurologist report, it was said that it seemed to be "Meningioma".

I had to wait one more week till I went to the Neurosurgeon, it was 20th June, 2006.

The beginning: The Headache

Around October 2005 I started suffering from very strange headaches: they appeared always at night, just behind my eyes, I was feeling a strong pressure... almost unbearable. The pain was so horrible that the only way to be ok was going to bed and try to sleep.

At the beginning I didn't think much of it, since it used to happen "sometimes", but the headaches became more often and they were lasting longer. By March, one day the pain was so strong that I went to the doctor. He told me that he was sure that it was stress but he also told me to go to the Neurologist.

Blog's Posts

As my intention is to write all the story of my illness, and most of it I have already been through it, I have thought of writing a different post with each step I've walked. Dates won't be correct, but I think it is a good idea in order to follow an order.

So I will start in the beginning!