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My mother has a cyst on the left side of her brain. Now I've heard these are easy to treat/get rid of. I was reading this and it made me feel better about it, but I'm still scared. Here's what I found:
"My son(at age 21) also had a brain cyst which caused him bad headaches for a long time. He had surgery for it almost 1-1/2 years ago. A cyst is like a balloon inside the ventricle of the brain. It's almost always benign, alost always completely contained, so it can be either punctured and the fluid inside (just cerebrospinal fluid)just flows into the ventricle, or it can be removed, or shunt can be placed in it to allow the fluid to drain. The surgery,while not fun, did solve the pressure problem.It depends on the location of the cyst as to how they'll go about treating it. You'll have a bunch of MRI's and blood tests prior to surgery, so that's a bummer, and you will have one heck of headache for some time after--bu I think the prognosis on this type of surgery is good. It could be whole lot worse---cysts are defnitely peferable to tumors."
I'm just glad it wasn't a tumor. Please keep her in your thoughts. Thanks for caring, guys. :)
My mother has a cyst on the left side of her brain. Now I've heard these are easy to treat/get rid of. I was reading this and it made me feel better about it, but I'm still scared. Here's what I found:
"My son(at age 21) also had a brain cyst which caused him bad headaches for a long time. He had surgery for it almost 1-1/2 years ago. A cyst is like a balloon inside the ventricle of the brain. It's almost always benign, alost always completely contained, so it can be either punctured and the fluid inside (just cerebrospinal fluid)just flows into the ventricle, or it can be removed, or shunt can be placed in it to allow the fluid to drain. The surgery,while not fun, did solve the pressure problem.It depends on the location of the cyst as to how they'll go about treating it. You'll have a bunch of MRI's and blood tests prior to surgery, so that's a bummer, and you will have one heck of headache for some time after--bu I think the prognosis on this type of surgery is good. It could be whole lot worse---cysts are defnitely peferable to tumors."
I'm just glad it wasn't a tumor. Please keep her in your thoughts. Thanks for caring, guys. :)