surgery recovery times for brain surgey

What is the Recovery time from Neurocysticercosis Operation done through Open Brain Surgery?

It is over a year since my surgery and I still have double vision. I have had prisms in my specs which help. I am hoping that my eyesight will improve over time.

I had a massive benign brain tumor covering all of my cerebellum. In surgery 9 hrs, rehab six months. Thankfully I had no seizures, pain, or bleeding. I have been out of the hospital for over a year. I have zero memory loss. However, my balance is off, my left side of my tongue was affected, and I tend to want to fall to the left.. Just got rid of the wheelchair and use a walker now. Still wobbly though. Speech is slurred a bit. Very slow recovery. My neurosurgeon said 1-3 years before they really know where I'll be. My son is a PA and his neurosurgeon friends told him I was fortunate to even survive, much less not having brain damage. My tumor was so large, they said I may have had it since I was a child. I had no symptoms. Just suddenly became very nauseous and collapsed a few hours later. Very scary for my family. I was in a coma for two weeks after surgery. Did not respond at all to anything. They tell me my tongue swelled to a huge size and would not fit into mouth.. Not sure what that was about. Hoping I will continue to improve with time. Want to be able to at least elk with a cane. Please pray for me.

May I ask where and who did your surgery. I have a menegioma the size a plum and am looking for a good neurosurgeon. Thanks

God is surrounding your little one. We will keep her in prayers. You can do all things threw Jesus!

I would think that your gyn wouldn't have a problem with a csection. For safety

Lisa, I just had brain surgery and in my case I regret it to go for it, was my decision. I was planing move and go on vacation now I feel I reined everything I'm paralized and need long time to recover I can't do much and feel awful, mine wasn't an emergency, if yours is well probably you should go for it, if not just wait a little longer its a lot I didn't know about recovery now is too late it's done. Good luck to you

Lisa, I just had brain surgery and in my case I regret it to go for it, was my decision. I was planing move and go on vacation now I feel I reined everything I'm paralized and need long time to recover I can't do much and feel awful, mine wasn't an emergency, if yours is well probably you should go for it, if not just wait a little longer its a lot I didn't know about recovery now is too late it's done. Good luck to you

I had a Posterior Fossa Meningioma brain stem tumor removed 15 years ago ( I was 21 at the time) and I still suffer after affects from it. For instace, the left side of my face is still numb, occasionally I have hemi facial spasms and they hurt like hell. I was in the hospital for 6 days, and I was in bed recovering for 4 months. I had Bells Palsy as well for about 8 months. I was living like a bat for 8 months then I couldnt have any noise because the sounds was like a bomb was going off in my head. It really varies peraon to person. I was really and still am. Just last Thursday, I went to see a Nuerologist to do a yearly check up and left the office only to feel worse than I was. Now, im experiencing sharp pains in my left arm down to my fingertips and feels like some one punched me and it goes into my finger tips. I have an appt to do an EEG (brain wave test) tomorrow and hoepfully they will find out whats going on.

Hi JW, Thanks for sharing your story. I hope you made as much progress as possible by now. My mom is going through the same thing as you.After her surgery her right hands and legs don't work, her left eye don't open and so on. It is encouraging to know that at least after a year she will recover, hopefully by 50%. How are you doing now? Any changes since you made your last post.

Just seeing this post, ependymona in 4th ventricle and also dealing with double vision which I am starting to think is permanent a 4 months into recovery.

I am 4 months recovering from removal of a tennis ball sized meningioma. Complete surprise! Headache, vision, memory, and balance issues came on within a couple months. Had an MRI, then neurosurgeon removed within 3 weeks. Be as positive as you can, because the choice is to have the operation or eventually this will take you to the cemetery. Your story will be amazing and you won't be believe you went through it, but it's worth it. Your spouse, children, family, and friends are worth being here for no matter what your outcome. I could not imagine my children having to grow up without me. I admit my operation was a very successful one, but even with all the after effects, it's still worth it. Doctor said to give it two years, so I agree to be patient. Top of my head is still numb, burr hole and incision area still very tender, eye socket hurts, ear hurts, teeth very tender, vision from 20/30 to 20/80, neck muscle sore and hard to turn my head all the way, and foot numb, but still worth it. I am here! No matter what your outcome, appreciate it. There is someone who always has it worse than you. Things will improve, just give it time. First day back to work a lady hit me in a car accident, everything okay, but it didn't bother me. God still wants me here, maybe it's for my family or to pass on my story for others. Appreciate what you have. Hospital and all the staff did a wonderful job. Amazing what they do and am so very grateful for their knowledge. Prayers to all!!!

I have Trigeminal Neuralgia so the time of brain surgery I had was Microvascular Decompression surgery where they place a sponge-like thing in between the trigeminal nerve and the cranial artery that's hitting it (causing the pain). It's supposed to be a 3 hour surgery, but mine was nearly 6 hours due to them having issues intubating me due to my Eosinophilic Esophagitus (which I warned them might be a problem). They had to hunt down a pediatric intubation kit because the swelling in my esophagus has pushed on my trachea and narrowed it to where that was the only option.

I was lucky enough to skip ICU, but was still in the hospital for four days. All I really remember of that visit is them asking the same questions over and over again, a horrible headache, and an insane amount of nausea. (I had never been so nauseous in my LIFE!) I was in the hospital for four days and experience no facial pain at that time. I was released after four days. However, I was only home for one day before being put into an ambulance and rushed back due to a meningitus infection. They don't warn you about it being a rare, but possible outcome so... yeah. I'm warning you it can happen.
I was lucky that they caught it early so it hadn't had the time to go bacterial. I had the non-infectious kind and after a few days in the hospital (three) they sent me home again. About ten days after coming home I ended up back in the ER due to CHRONIC back pain and was told I had a really bad UTI which went into my kidney's. ANOTHER possibility with brain surgery and actually VERY common so... watch out for that!

Turns out though that I'm not one of the 82% that feel full relief of the pain. I'm one of the 16% that experience PARTIAL relief. Enough that I don't have to take 900mg of anticonvulsants and 60mg of baclofen a day... I'm down to 200-300mg when it flares with 20mg baclofen when it flares. It's been a month and I've only had 8/31 days of pain. Bright side though is it's all type 2 and no type 1 in sight so I can bear it! No type 1 pain in over a month and that for me made the surgery entirely worth it! Trust me... the type 1 pain is why I sought out the most invasive option. I was DESPERATE to be rid of it because when you're in such agony that meds can't even take a portion of the pain away... you can't live like that. I had felt like I was going slowly insane and knew that if something wasn't done fast then I wouldn't live long. I would have done absolutely ANYTHING to get rid of it! So I'm glad the type 1 pain is gone. (If it appears again I'm doing Gamma Knife surgery as my next option.)

Downside lately though is I keep hearing a clicking in my head. The surgeon said it's normal as it's the metal plate settling in and healing, but it's beyond annoying! So if you end up getting a metal plate... be prepared for that. It also sometimes sounds like a facet dripping... dripping... dripping... and you feel like pulling your hair out 'cause it won't flippin' stop.

I'm mostly healed, but still have some issues. I had MVD on my left side so I was laid on my right side and because of that my back hurt so they put an ice pack (several) there and after a month that area is STILL numb-ish. Which is concerning, but it HAS gotten slightly better so maybe the feeling will eventually come back. When I woke up, initially, it felt like I had gauze or something in my ear even though I could hear fine. It took three weeks for that to go away and to re-gain my normal hearing (without the gauze-like feeling, or like your ears need to pop).

So yeah. That's my story.

Thank God, and The Lord keep blessing us. I had a angioma tumor surgery 7 and a half months ago. My question is that on my right side where the tumor was my skull or scalp is still swollen and some times is very sensible to touching. Until when or how long more It will heal completely? Sorry to bother you with this but I have nobody else to talk about it even my own family since they don't know anything related to it. I still not able to lay on my right side to sleep because it cause a head ache if I do it. Thanks a lot for your response or your comments regard my conversation. God blessed! Lourdes!

How long did your surgery take to finish ?