Can a patient who has had a brain tumor and under went chemo experience short term memory loss, temporarily?
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Yes my aunt is dealing with this right now. She had brain cancer and the cancer tumor is causing short term memory loss and she seem to regain it back but it does take her a little bit..
Yes.
Yes.
According to the area of the brain the tumor is in, the memory can be affected temporally or permanently depending on the affects of the tumor on the brain and or the success of the treatment.
Sadly it is not something that can be known positively in advance. It is possible for degrees of memory to be regained, also depending on the success of the treatment.
it is possible
Yes, even people who have surgery done for epilepsy suffer from short term memory loss and some times it can stay for awhile.
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Yes, absolutely.
Stay in touch with her doctor and document anything unusual. It may improve over time.
Yes. I had breast cancer and I still have trouble saying words, and I was an Eng. Major.
The short answer is Yes.
This is a common side effect of radiation treatment.
Look to these pages for other common side effects of the far-from-benign treatments:
Fatigue - how to deal with it
Some tips on how to deal with fatigue from the Brain Injury Guide.
http://www.tbiguide.com/fatigue.html...
Anger - Dealing with it.
An explanation of changes in anger and depression post treatment and how to manage the anger.
http://www.tbiguide.com/angerdepress.htm...
Headaches - Post tx
Headaches can be a serious problem with a head injury. If you are in pain every day (headaches can also wake you in the middle of the night), headaches will wear you down mentally and emotionally. How common are headaches in head injury? In one study of head-injured people, 50% reported having a headache when they were discharged from the hospital. After one year, 33% of this same group of people said "my head still hurts." That's a long time to have a headache. Some tips on how to deal with them.
http://www.tbiguide.com/headaches.html...
Memory
Impaired memory is one of the universal problems of people with head injury. All of my patients have complained about memory problems following their injury. Most people think of memory as being "good or bad." As we get older, we recognize that our memory isn't as good as it used to be. It's more complicated than that. There are several different types of memory . Let’s take a look at them
http://www.tbiguide.com/memory.html...
Organization - Problems with
A discussion of some tips to help brain tumor survivors to get organized from the Brain Injury Guide.
http://www.tbiguide.com/gettingorganized...
Overloaded - Getting Brain Overloaded or Over stimulated
An explanation of brain overload / overstimulus and some tips on how to handle it from the Brain Injury Guide.
http://www.tbiguide.com/getoverloaded.ht...
Sleep disorders
Nearly all of my head-injured patients have some form of a sleep disorder. This is rather confusing because people with head injuries can also have a fatigue disorder. You would think people with a fatigue disorder would want to sleep all the time or would sleep like rocks. You can, however, have both problems.
http://www.tbiguide.com/sleepdisorders.h...
Word Finding
Word-finding is a common, and often annoying, problem. Almost every head-injured person has this problem to some degree. Head-injured people may talk normally; speech flows evenly and it's easy to understand. But they'll have this very odd problem--they'll know the word they want to say but just can't come up with it. Professionals call this "anomia," which means "can't name".
http://www.tbiguide.com/wordfinding.html...
Hope this helps
God bless and with kind regards
David Edge
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and father of a daughter treated for a brain tumor (medulloblastoma) in 1998.
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