Brain tumor is not easy to be judged, so many people do not pay attention to the discomfort symptoms for a long time, and thus delay the best time for treatment. In fact, brain tumor is also “traceable”, but many patients do not care about it in the early stage, in fact, when these conditions appear, it indicates the occurrence of the disease.
Top 10 early signs of brain tumor
1. Headache
The headache is often relieved after resting, but not for brain tumor, it often comes on in early morning and is more intense.
2.Vomiting
Due to the increase of intracranial pressure, the respiratory center of medulla oblongata is stimulated and vomiting occurs.
3.Loss of vision and diplopia
In the early stage, there can be temporary blackness and transient loss of vision, which gradually becomes persistent vision loss with the aggravation of the disease and finally may be completely blind.
Diplopia is a condition in which the two eyes do not overlap, and any object is seen as a double image. At first, diplopia can only appear when the eyes are gazing in a certain direction, but later it can develop to appear in any direction, and finally when the position of both eyes has been significantly asymmetrical, diplopia may be reduced or even disappear.
4.Mental abnormalities
Brain tumors located in the frontal lobe of the brain can disrupt the mental activities of the frontal lobe, causing mental abnormalities such as excitement, forgetfulness, restlessness, depression, repression and fiction.
5.Gigantism
This condition is mostly seen in pituitary tumors. The main manifestation is that the patient grows rapidly and develops acromegaly (large chin, large nose, enlarged lips and tongue, and abnormally large hands and feet).
6.Monocular protrusion
This means that one side of the eye protrudes forward, which can affect the eyelid in severe cases, causing lid fissures and incomplete eyelid closure. In 50% of cases of unilateral eye protrusion, the most common cause is brain tumor.
7.Phantom smell
A tumor in the temporal lobe can cause phantom smell under its stimulation, i.e. smell an odor that does not exist, such as burnt rice or burnt rubber.
8. Hemiplegia or staggering gait
One is hemiplegia or hemiparesis with little or no movement of the diseased limb, and the other is ataxia of one limb with dumb or unstable movement. If these two symptoms appear slowly and get progressively worse, they may be signs of brain tumor. The former is mostly seen in cerebral hemisphere tumor, while the latter is a sign of cerebellar hemisphere tumor.
9.Tinnitus and deafness
This kind of tinnitus is mostly found when talking on the phone, i.e. one ear can hear it, but the other ear cannot hear it. In middle-aged people, if there is no history of otitis media or trauma, and there is only progressive hearing loss on one side with or without ipsilateral tinnitus, most of them are caused by tumor compression of the auditory nerve, which is mostly the precursor of auditory neuroma.
10.Amenorrhea and lactation
Amenorrhea and lactation in women of childbearing age without pregnancy are often the first symptoms of pituitary tumor. In men, the main manifestations are impotence and loss of pubic hair, axillary hair, beard, etc., and thickening of subcutaneous fat.
For brain tumor patients, early detection and diagnosis is the key to improve patient’s treatment outcome! There are various early symptoms of brain tumor,? There are also some brain tumor patients who will show symptoms such as epilepsy, dizziness, abnormal language, etc. Brain tumor cannot be diagnosed based on individual symptoms and signs alone.
Warm tip: If the above symptoms appear, you should go to a regular hospital as soon as possible for CT, MRI plain and enhanced scans of the head, so as to get early detection and early treatment to obtain the best treatment effect.