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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Eleanor Dye

Man who felt dizzy diagnosed with serious condition

A man who started to feel ‘spaced out’ and ‘sick’ while at work in Costco in February was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Philip Boal, 44, was initially told it was just a migraine and to take paracetamol. After his condition worsened, he was given an MRI scan at The Walton Centre in Liverpool, which found a 6cm cyst about to burst on the back of his head and a tumour.

Philip, who is from Ireland and lives with his partner Steve in Waterloo, said: “I was feeling spaced out and was getting bouts of dizziness. But then the sickness began and I had a constant feeling of wanting to be sick.

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