Woman 'cried for days' at diagnosis after symptoms dismissed View 4 Images

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, 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 and biopsied. The biopsy confirmed she had a grade two astrocytoma - a low-grade brain tu

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