Sunday, 8 May 2011

Metastatic brain tumor - Symptoms

Decreased coordination, clumsiness, falls

Rapid emotional changes or strange behaviors

Fever (sometimes)

General ill feeling or lethargy

Headache -- recent or a new, more severe type type for the person

Memory loss, poor judgment, difficulty solving problems

Numbness, tingling, pain, and other changes in sensation

Personality changes

Seizures -- new for the person

Speech difficulties

Vision changes -- double vision, decreased vision

Vomiting -- with or without nausea

Weakness of a body area

Note: Specific symptoms vary. The symptoms commonly seen with most types of metastatic brain tumor are those caused by increased pressure in the brain.