BRAIN tumours can cause a host of different symptoms, depending on their position. Most commonly, you might experience headaches, sickness, or seizures if you have one. Each year around 12,300 case…
This would be due to a temporal lobe tumour, which the experts said may cause you to hear voices in your head.4. Loss of interest
Director of policy, research and innovation at Brain Tumour Research, Dr Karen Noble, said: "Brain tumours near the pituitary gland can cause some of the most surprising symptoms, such as extreme changes to personality, weight and physical size, or delays to puberty.These personality changes could lead people to losing interest in things they once enjoyed doing.
They added that if you have headaches combined with feeling of being sick, that wake you up in the night or if you have eye issues such as flashing lights orIf you didn't have headaches before and if they have become steadily worse over a period of weeks and months then you should also visit your doctor.
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