Woman's brain tumour symptoms blamed on "being a fresher"

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A woman was diagnosed with a brain tumour after her symptoms were blamed on being a "fresher" and "drinking too much".  Lucy Younger, 24, started experiencing bizarre symptoms before she started university such as zoning out, smelling bacon and frequent déjà vu.  Her symptoms got worse at university but doctors dismissed her symptoms and told her she was "drinking too much" and needed to "slow down".  Lucy spent the next year going back and forth to the GP but was dismissed and given antidepressants.  After finally being referred, a CT scan revealed a benign brain tumour and Lucy had to undergo a craniotomy to remove the mass.  She hopes to help others to push to get a diagnosis to catch brain tumours early.

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00:00I just have this problem with the NHS and I feel like I have the right to now

00:04voice it because this same problem just keeps happening to me and I absolutely

00:10know it will be happening to so many other young people out there and this

00:15issue is just not being listened to because of our age and because we're

00:20young and we just get stereotyped in these categories and it is so

00:24frustrating. I've just got back from a hospital appointment that I've been

00:28waiting for for so long. I started getting kidney pain about now two months

00:34ago just after I had my first cancer surgery and I went to the doctors and

00:40they were like you have a UTI whatever and I got put on antibiotics. All of my

00:46tests came back negative for infection. I still got put on antibiotics. I then

00:51ended up in A&E because I was in so much pain. I said to the people in A&E I was

00:57like I've come back negative for infection like don't put me on

01:00antibiotics like there's something else going on please scan me. They didn't scan

01:05me and by this point I'd already been scanned previously and they'd found a

01:10kidney stone and a cyst and I told them this and I was like please can you do

01:16like a CT scan because that was just an ultrasound and they were like no that

01:20you've definitely got an infection. They didn't even test me. They didn't even like

01:23get me to wee in a pot. They were just like no like you're young you've got a

01:27UTI and I was like I don't. So they gave me antibiotics, gave me painkillers and

01:32sent me on my way. I took this course of antibiotics just to prove to them that

01:38it wasn't a UTI. Of course it wasn't a UTI because I was still in agony. I

01:44finally got this urology appointment today and the urologist was like of

01:50course it's not an infection. He showed me all of my markers and he was like

01:54there was no markers of infection. He was like the painkillers you got given

01:58we're not gonna even touch that pain because you don't have an infection. He

02:02was like the kidney stones that you have, he was like that's not the cause of pain.

02:06He's had to order me an urgent CT scan because he was like there's something

02:10else going on and he was like you also have cancer. So he was like you should

02:15have had that scan straight away.

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