Doctors said this woman had a brain tumor. But when a surgeon removed the suspected tumor, it turned out to be a tapeworm.
After examining scans and ruling out other possibilities, cancer was the most likely explanation for the unusual symptoms that Rachel Palma experienced beginning in January 2018. "I was having involuntary movements with my right hand, so I was dropping things," the Middletown, New York, resident said."The worst symptoms obviously were hallucinations. And I wasn't always oriented to time and place.
She understands why, since no one could identify what was happening with her."They said, 'If you're not actually having a brain bleed, then it's not actually an emergency,'"she said. A seizure disorder was also investigated and quickly dismissed. On a brain scan, Palma's primary care physician detected a small lesion in the left frontal lobe of her brain and immediately sent her to Dr.
With all the attention --"for some reason my story is fascinating to people" -- Palma now has an important message to deliver:"This is not something that is cause for widespread panic. What happened to me is extremely rare -- it's not the norm -- for someone who has not been overseas to contract this.
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