Woman told her hallucinations were anxiety diagnosed with a brain tumour

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A woman who was told her hallucinations were anxiety-related was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Jessie Mae Lambert, 28, started getting hallucinations in October 2023, but her local doctor put them down to mental health and put her on anxiety medication. The hallucinations continued, but Jessie said she was dismissed again and told she needed to change her diet. At her worst she had seven hallucinations a day but it wasn't until her mum, Trish Lambert, 56, saw Jessie have a seizure that doctors acted and put her forward for an MRI and EEG scan. Jessie underwent a brain debulking surgery where 40 per cent of the tumour was removed - which they biopsied. Jessie, a nail technician from Derby, said: "I was having weird episodes. "I just had the feeling of fear, and I was hallucinating." After having a seizure in front of her mum, Trish, at a work Christmas party on December 21, 2023, Jessie was sent for an MRI and EEG. The results came back showing a mass on the brain, but doctors at Royal Derby Hospital didn't know what it was. She was then transferred to Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, for brain debulking surgery where they removed 40 per cent of the tumour.

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00:00This is a video on my biopsy results. So I posted that first video on a Tuesday and then on Friday

00:08I messaged my miss that looks after me just basically because I know they have their big

00:13meetings on Friday just basically saying is there any news on my biopsy results can we hear

00:18and she was like we are bringing you up in this meeting so if there is any news I'll be calling

00:23you later. So all Friday oh god I couldn't breathe like literally went to meet the girls for a coffee

00:29and I was just holding my phone just like on loud like please ring and didn't call all day then I

00:35got home back to Nottingham with mum and then my phone rings and I literally run to mum and I'm like

00:42oh my god it's Kelly and basically it's good news and not like amazing news but it's better than what

00:51we were thinking. So basically there's four grades of cancer and grade one is your

00:59benign so like your non-cancerous grade two, grade three, grade four and mine is a grade two so

01:07it's the best of a bad situation so I keep looking down because my mates are there.

01:13So Kelly said that there's no evidence that it's a three and it's an astrocytoma

01:18and it's IVH mutant which to me means absolutely nothing. I either hear like good or bad news when

01:24I have these appointments. She did say it's in keeping with the load grade glioma so basically

01:31confirming that it is a grade two because there's not enough evidence to show that it is a grade three.

01:38With astrocytomas they can still climb the ladder of grading so over time and if left untreated

01:47they could gradually like my grade two could turn into a grade three, grade four so that's why the

01:5260% that I've got left will need to be treated still so being booked in with a lady at the hospital

01:58that looks at your treatment plans so we're going to talk about whether I'm going to go down the

02:03chemotherapy path or the radiotherapy. Kelly said that 10 years ago they wouldn't normally

02:09operate on these type of tumours, the load grade ones so I'm taking that as a promising thing that

02:17you know only now because we have the science and technology we operate and people were living

02:25with these 10 years ago so I think that's a positive. I'm going on Monday for an assessment

02:32on my wound again just because so like say this is the wound it's a line the top and the bottom bit

02:38is healed and it's looking really nice but the middle bit is still really scabbed and I think that's

02:43where my infection was so I sent a photo to Kelly and she basically looked at it and just said yeah

02:50we'll get you in on Monday to just see if we can remove it I think or like try and get it to come

02:56off so they can just check that everything's okay underneath it because there is a chance well there's

03:00not I don't feel awful but we just need to rule out that there's no infection under there because we

03:05need to get it healed as quick as possible because we can't start my treatment until my wound is healed

03:11because radiotherapy example if we go for that and I have a open wound it can break down the wound

03:18which I don't really understand but it didn't sound good and Kelly said it could lead to an infection

03:22so we have to wait so I think we're trying to rush through the process of the healing by removing the

03:28scab so we can get to the next stage not that it's urgent and a rush but just more so that it's

03:32we're not just waiting on a scab that we could just remove. So basically I'm either going to be

03:38having radiotherapy or chemotherapy and Kelly was obviously telling me all the side effects that

03:44could potentially happen one being losing my hair but I think that's fine

03:49like I kind of just said like that's the least of my worries I'll get wigs change my hair colour every

04:02every day every day every week it's fine I just want to move on from it

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