Someone please calm me down, Dr Google has convinced me dd gas a brain tumour.

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Dd has had headaches on and off for a while but does complain if them quite often. We found out that she needed glasses a few months ago and I thought that would fix the problem. She also has really bad sleep as she's waiting for a tonsilectomy next month for sleep apnoea.
She has been complaining this week of feeling nauseous in the mornings but not actually vomiting and I just thought maybe she had a but of an off stomach but she's had a nasty headache tonight and feels sick. Just Google nausea and headaches in children and a list as long as my arm fir brain tumour info came up. I'm now laying in bed panicking. She's only 5. Would there be other symptoms?

Thanks everyone I do feel a little calmer buy will call gp tomorrow. Better safe than sorry and they really do need sorting as they're obviously bothering her.

Dr Google is a bastard. I seem to focus most of the anxiety I have about the children on the possibility of brain tumours, & I hate them having headaches, but I think that is because I am a loon. Chances are something like 1 in 25,000 I think.

You are in an OK place tonight, for the last hour or so.
But this is not a hospital.
Neither Google nor MN are hospitals.
I won't list the 100 or so reasons why this can happen to her, because I am not a doctor.
Go to your GP tomorrow, get a second opinion if need be, go to the hospital if need be, for responsible advice.
Posters on here are well meaning but not experts

I know I cant expect advice on wether she has a brain tumour or not I just posted for a calm down until I can see my gp tomorrow aroomwithoutaview

Otherwise I'd just be sat still consulting Dr Google so I thought this was the better option! Lol

I know
The crazy thing is that Google is not that bad if you know where to go and can interpret the really techy pages. In the hospital I have to visit the consultants will often look up a drug combination for the right doses on Google. Or that thick grey and black book they all seem to have on their desks now days. But sometimes the information can be so scary in the wrong hands, without a medically trained opinion.
A friend had persistent nose bleeds, and blamed it on the weather and pollen, was a bit down and no energy. I said to go to the GP immediately, they went the next day and go...iron tablets....and now feel so much better, alive, more energy.

Trust your instinct too, and if you feel that the advise is not right get a second opinion.
Good luck.

Thank you

Put any symptoms in and it will come up with cancer.

I used to claim I had headaches etc fairly often once I realised it would get me delicious calpol. Is there any pattern to her headaches?

Brain tumour headaches can come and go. Often worse in the morning. Sorry. Do go with your list of symptoms to the GP, but be prepared for her/him to tell you DD is fine (bitter experience). Continue to keep record of symptoms after reassurance from your GP and take her back if they get worse.

Over the years I've convinced myself that I've got bowel cancer, MS, a brain tumour and god knows what else whenever I've googled symptoms. Every symptom will be the absolute worst case scenario. Got a cough? Must be lung cancer. Stomach upset? Got to be stomach cancer. Headache? Brain tumour for sure.

Look brain tumours can manifest in a variety of ways with many hallmark symptoms. They can also have no symptoms whatsoever. So in short you must always seek medical advice if concerned. For every serious condition symptoms suggest it could be there's also many perfectly benign ones it could also be

I have had the opposite problem with Dr Google. I've googled the condition suspected from a scan before the follow-up specialist appointment, and although the information (from web-sites of leading US hospitals) was accurate as far as it went, with bullet-point outlines of surgical treatment approach, it was no preparation at all for the actual diagnosis.

Every site gave similar information about the surgical approach, but none gave statistics about surgery survival probabilities, none pointed out the potential adverse outcomes even if surgery was successful, and none pointed out that non-treatment (with a terminal outcome) would be an option, and a valid choice.