Diagnosis
The diagnostic process with my brain tumour was probably a year- long slog of confusion from start to finish. its not over yet either (no histology yet). It’s a bit of a long read so you more than welcome to skip to the end because the end result is the same, but for my own benefit I’m going to document the years process.. In summer of 2012 I started having panic attacks out of the blue while on medical leave from university due to a particularly bad spell of IBS that prevented me from attending enough lectures to be allowed to continue. Mostly due to this being an NHS funded course in which 20 weeks of work for the NHS was required per year as a diagnostic radiographer. So any time off sick was taken seriously. I’ve had IBS since I was 16 after a stomach infection picked up on a holiday in Portugal. It can be an extremely debilitating at times and often prevented me from doing normal stuff a teenager would want to do, but it wasn’t too bad. The initial bout of severe anxiety ...