The woman with brain tumour that told her to she had a tumour, ultimately saving her life.

In 1984, a 40-year-old woman was at home reading when she heard a voice inside her head that said, “Don’t be afraid. I know it must be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you like this, but you have a brain tumour.” After a brain scan, it indeed turned out to be true, and she got the tumour removed, ultimately saving her own life.

Despite there being no physical sign that would suggest the woman was having a brain tumour - she decided to believe what the hallucinatory voices were telling her. She insisted the doctors to get a brain scan, to which the doctors agreed, for her own reassurance.

Her initial scans led to a repeat scan, revealing that she had a mass extending from left side of her brain to the right side. She then decided to operate it early, after further discussing with her hallucinatory voices. After the tumour was removed, she woke up following the operation when she heard the voice again, “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.”

The voices never returned again, even 12 years after when the doctor followed up on her.

When the doctor shared this incredible case with his colleagues, they came up with multiple theories. One being, she was already diagnosed with brain tumour elsewhere, but just to get a treatment for free under NHS, she staged her case of hearing hallucinatory voices in her head. But she had already been living in the UK for more than 15 years, which made her entitled to seek NHS treatment regardless. She would have had no motive to stage all of this just to seek treatment under NHS.

Questioning the first theory that didn’t quite fit, the doctors believed that she must have felt a funny feeling or pain in her head, therefore building a subconscious fear that she had tumour. This theory, wasn’t proved either.

Regardless of her reasons, what mattered was how her own brain tumour helped her diagnose and get rid of the brain tumour, that ultimately saved her life.

Her case has been published in The BMJ.

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