The 5 subtle signs of a brain tumour you must not ignore – as Davina McCall breaks down in tears over op

IN her archetypal interrogation since having encephalon country to region a tumour, Davina McCall broke down successful tears arsenic she described waking up from the op.

The TV star, 57, received an outpouring of enactment aft revealing was undergoing country to region a 14mm tumour from her brain successful November 2024.

Davina asked fans to "say a supplication for me" aft sharing that a health scan had revealed the benign growth successful her brain.

Almost 3 months later, the presenter opened up astir the harrowing experience in a caller interrogation for her Begin Again podcast - other  Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett, 32.

A archetypal look astatine the occurrence shows Davina visibly emotional.

With tears successful her eyes, she told Steven: "I felt similar this happening had taken power of me."

Davina recalled waking up pursuing the op, saying she didn't "really retrieve wherever [she] was".

The presenter revealed she'd been terrified of losing portion of herself going into the op.

"You realise that your property is your short-term memory."

But she recalled the infinitesimal she realised: "I'm inactive here."

"I began again," the prima added.

The operation 'brain tumour' ever sparks fears of cancer.

But successful immoderate cases, growths successful the encephalon tin beryllium benign - meaning they turn comparatively dilatory successful the brain.

This was the lawsuit for Davina, who revealed that she had an highly uncommon but non-cancerous tumour.

In a social media station published successful November, the Masked Singer justice said: "A fewer months ago, I did a menopause speech for a institution and they offered maine a wellness scan successful return, which I thought I was gonna ace.

"But it turned retired I had a benign encephalon tumour called a colloid cyst which is precise rare.

"Three successful a million. So I somewhat enactment my caput successful the sand.

"I saw rather a fewer neurosurgeons, I got tons of opinions and I realised that I person to get it taken out."

A colloid cyst is simply a benign, fluid-filled sac that grows successful an country heavy successful the encephalon known arsenic the 3rd ventricle.

Benign encephalon tumours tin often beryllium dilatory increasing and whitethorn not origin symptoms astatine first.

But radical whitethorn make headaches, drowsiness and imaginativeness problems arsenic the tumour increases successful size and exerts unit connected the brain.

When symptoms occur, it's due to the fact that the tumour is putting unit connected the encephalon and preventing a circumstantial country of the encephalon from moving properly.

But immoderate symptoms are vague and could easy spell missed.

Davina didn't uncover whether she'd experienced immoderate symptoms from the tumour.

But she said that the maturation was already rather ample for "the space" and could origin consequences if it grew more.

Davina explained: "It's large for the space. It fills the space. It's 14mm wide and it needs to travel out, due to the fact that if it grows, it would beryllium bad.

"So I'm having it removed via a craniotomy.

"They spell done the apical of my caput present and done the 2 halves of my encephalon to the middle, and get the cyst, instrumentality it out, bare it, instrumentality it retired and Bob's your uncle."

Symptoms of a benign encephalon tumour

Some of the much subtle signs of a encephalon tumour include:

1. New, persistent headaches that are sometimes worse successful the greeting oregon erstwhile bending implicit oregon coughing
2. Feeling precise bushed
3. Confusion successful regular matters oregon representation issues
4. Hearing problems
5. Feeling bare oregon gaining weight

You whitethorn besides experience, according to the Mayo Clinic and NHS:

1. Feeling sick each the time
2. Drowsiness
3. Vision problems, specified as blurred oregon treble vision, nonaccomplishment of portion of your ocular tract and impermanent imaginativeness loss
4. Trouble with balance, dizziness oregon vertigo
5. Losing feeling oregon question successful an limb oregon leg
6. Personality oregon behaviour changes
7. Speech problems
8. Epileptic seizures that whitethorn impact the full body, oregon you whitethorn conscionable person a twitch successful 1 area

If you get immoderate of the supra symptoms, it's important you get them seen to by a GP.

If they fishy you whitethorn person a tumour oregon are not definite what's causing your symptoms, they whitethorn notation you to a neurologist for further investigation.

Symptoms caused by a benign encephalon tumour thin to beryllium connected its size and wherever it is successful the brain.

According to the NHS, tumours increasing successful the frontal lobe - the beforehand portion of the encephalon - whitethorn origin changes successful personality, weakness successful 1 broadside of the assemblage oregon nonaccomplishment of smell.

If it grows successful the brain's near and close sides - known arsenic the temporal lobe - you whitethorn acquisition memory, connection problems oregon seizures.

A tumour successful the parietal lobe could effect successful numbness oregon weakness successful 1 broadside of the assemblage and co-ordination problems, portion 1 successful the
occipital lobe whitethorn origin nonaccomplishment of imaginativeness connected 1 broadside of the ocular field.

Meanwhile, a maturation successful the cerebellum whitethorn origin equilibrium problems flickering of the eyes and vomiting, but 1 successful the encephalon stem – whitethorn origin unsteadiness and trouble walking, facial weakness, treble imaginativeness and trouble speaking.

Benign encephalon tumours tin usually beryllium successfully removed with country and won't usually turn back.

If surgeons can't region the full tumour, it tin beryllium monitored with scans oregon treated with radiotherapy.

Davina shared that she was successful "good spirits" earlier her op and asked asked fans to "say a supplication for me".

But she stressed that they didn't request to interest astir her arsenic she was successful bully hands.

Her partner, hairdresser Michael Douglas, appeared successful the video alongside the TV big and it was helium who shared the video to her Instagram page.

He wrote: "Davina volition beryllium 'off grid' for a spot portion she recovers from this encephalon operation.

"She is successful large signifier and successful precise bully hands.

"I’ll bash the unusual update from her relationship present for anyone interested.

"I’m definite she’ll work each the comments erstwhile she’s capable to truthful consciousness escaped to nonstop love.

"The enactment of radical is amazingly powerful."

The op went smoothly and Davina later showed disconnected the scar from her operation as Michael chopped her hair.

Davina explained that she’d “lost a large chunk” of hair aft her country portion showing her followers the scar.