A woman who mistook symptoms of her brain tumour for the perimenopause was diagnosed after having terrifying hallucinations of werewolves running to attack her husband who she is “falling in love with again” now it has been removed. Design and production manager Anna Kane, 49, was always prone to headaches as a child and migraines in her 30s.
But when she started experiencing daily, excruciating headaches that needed constant painkillers to make life bearable in 2019, she believed they were triggered by hormonal changes. Medication prescribed in 2019 eased them for just over a year, but the morning after her 49th birthday in November 2021 she screamed in bed when she thought she saw a pack of werewolves running down her garden in Lewes, East Sussex, to attack her and her production director husband Des, also 49 – then having a seizure.
Rushed to hospital where she had weeks of tests, Anna was diagnosed with a 5.6cm low-grade benign meningioma brain tumour, which she says left her “feeling like a new woman” when it was removed, adding: “I didn’t realise it, but while it was there, I had lost a part of my personality. After the operation, I felt much more emotional and my husband and I had never laughed so much.
