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Maybe i was too hasty in my decision to do a GK

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PaulW:
I guess there are all sorts of symptoms that AN's give us.
Plugged Ear, poor hearing, tinnitus hopeless balance. It can all happen at anytime even before radiation.
Radiation often brings out these symptoms as the nerve and tumour react..
So think of it this way... you are probably getting everything you might have got anyway, but now its all up front...
Like ripping off the bandage quickly versus slowly. But at least now you have some finality with your AN..
It could be a few annoying months, but most problems clear up within 2 years, with the first 6 months being the biggest test.

Just remember that every symptom you have now you are on the road to permanent healing...
While if you are in W@W the future was still unknown.
The fact that your AN grew 2mm in 12 months would tend to suggest that it was a grower, and ultimately you would have needed to do something, and that staying on W&W was not a long term option
   

Citiview:

--- Quote from: WhiskyJoe on January 16, 2017, 02:57:49 pm ---Your AN, though small, grew over a two-year period.  Your doctor recommended gamma knife, and you accepted his recommendation and had the procedure just five days ago.  Your symptoms should improve.  Treating an AN when it's small and least symptomatic has been shown in some cases to be advantageous.  I talked with a woman who had microsurgery in September 2016 on an AN about the size of yours.  The procedure lasted 55 minutes, and she was back at work three weeks later.  There are a few posters on this message board who believe they stayed on watch and wait too long before treatment and regretting delaying it.  Based on all that, I would not say that your decision to proceed with gamma knife now was a bad or hasty decision.

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WhiskyJoe
At what institution are they doing 55 minute skull base surgeries?

ANSydney:
If I had a 7mm X 4mm X 6mm tumor with little symptoms I would chose observation. A 2mm growth, given the size, is little. I would wait to see it growth each year. Observation for tumors under 20 mm appears to be the go ( http://www.bhtinformatie.nl/pdf/ingrijpen.pdf ).

gussy:
 :)
Wow thank you all for you feedback and support.
just followed up with my Doctor and says the same things. I will recover in a week or so.
Also got my report. my right eat audiometry was 60DB and SDS 90% and it was nerve 8 that was affected.

WhiskyJoe:
The woman I was referring to had her surgery at USC Keck.

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