Kelsey Stokstad, a stay-at-home mom from Madison, Wisconsin, was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor after doctors initially dismissed the terrifying tingling in her arm as simple anxiety. This is a truly awful situation that shows how critical it is to push for further testing when symptoms don’t make sense.
When Stokstad, 32, first started feeling numbness and tingling in her left hand and arm, she thought it was a serious heart issue and headed straight to the emergency room. She said the symptoms confusingly stopped right when she arrived. Doctors concluded the issue was anxiety-related and sent her home with a prescription for beta blockers. Stokstad wasn’t convinced, noting that she feels this is “a common misdiagnosis for women.”
