| Brain tumor symptoms can be hard to recognize, | | | | There are several other brain tumor symptoms, neck |
| simply because of the variety of symptoms that can | | | | pain included. Headaches and neck pain are common, |
| occur. Symptoms ranging from headaches and neck | | | | but so are gastrointestinal problems. Vomiting is more |
| pain to seizures and stomach problems are all brain | | | | likely to occur in cases of stem cell tumors in the |
| tumor symptoms. These symptoms occur when the | | | | brain. Often, especially in the latter stages, brain |
| brain tumor causes damage to various clusters of | | | | tumors cause confusion, loss of reasoning ability, |
| nerve cells, causing spurious signals or a sudden lack | | | | speech problems, memory loss, and impaired |
| of signals to various parts of your body. Early | | | | concentration. The brain tumor may also cause the |
| detection can be extremely difficult with | | | | victim to sleep much more than usual. Depending on |
| slow-growing brain tumors because of the gradual | | | | the location of the brain tumor, between fourteen |
| onset of symptoms, which may be very subtle at | | | | and ninety-four percent of patients suffer some |
| first. | | | | form of seizures. Partial seizures are not uncommon, |
| With a brain tumor, neck pain can occur at times, but | | | | where, for instance, only the left side of a persons |
| recurring headaches are the most frequent sign of a | | | | body will go into a seizure. The patient may also |
| brain tumor. But diagnosis can be difficult. Most people | | | | remain conscious during a partial seizure, experiencing |
| have headaches, and many have recurring headaches | | | | odd tingling sensations and confusion. Generalized |
| or migraines - but not a brain tumor. Headaches that | | | | seizures, as are often experienced by epileptics, are |
| are caused by brain tumors usually have other | | | | not very common in brain tumor cases. |
| symptoms that occur simultaneously. Double vision, | | | | Usually, the specific symptoms and location of a brain |
| vomiting, or confusion are commonly seen with | | | | tumor will help a doctor diagnose its type. For |
| headaches associated with brain tumors, but again, | | | | example, if the tumor is a brain stem gliomas, the |
| severe migraine sufferers can have these symptoms | | | | patient will usually suddenly develop problems |
| as well. Sometimes the headaches come while asleep, | | | | swallowing, impaired hearing or vision, difficulty or |
| and are noticed strongly immediately upon | | | | clumsiness walking, vomiting after waking up in the |
| awakening, but subside after a few hours. Brain | | | | morning, nasal or slurred speech, and muscle paralysis |
| tumors can also cause headaches that get worse | | | | on one side of the face. |
| with exercise or coughing. | | | | |