Living with a brain tumour
A brain tumour may affect your life in different ways. Here, you can explore some of the most common challenges and learn about how to live with them. This section includes:
- Living with a brain tumour
- Epilepsy and brain tumours
- Swine flu and other flu-like illnesses
- Depression, anxiety and brain tumours
Living with a brain tumour
Knowing what to expect can help you prepare and cope.
An introduction
Learn more about where to start if you have just been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Physical effects
Learn more about potential physical symptoms and effects that a brain tumour can cause.
Emotional effects
Learn about some of the emotional effects a brain tumour can have on you.
Memory matters
Learn how a brain tumour can affect your memory
Benefits, driving and looking after your carer
Learn about extra help available to you and other effects that your tumour might have on your life.
Epilepsy and brain tumours
Epilepsy - fits and seizures - is one of the most common effects of a brain tumour, both before and after treatment.
Overview
Learn more about epilepsy and brain tumours.
How will epilepsy affect my life?
Learn more about the adjustments you might have to make if you experience epilepsy as a sympton of your brain tumour.
Treatments for epilepsy
Learn more about different treatment options for epilepsy.
First aid for someone having a seizure
Learn more on how to help someone having a seizure.
Swine flu and and other flu-like illnesses
Your treatment for a brain tumour may weaken your body's ability to fight flu-like illnesses.
Flu in adults with a brain tumour
Information for adult patients on swine flu and flu-like illnesses.
Flu in children with a brain tumour
Information for parents on swine flu and other flu-like illnesses, and the effects these might have on children with a brain tumour.
