A woman who was suffering from the symptoms of a life-threatening brain tumour was told she was just going through the “change”. The 51-year-old was given treatment for menopause symptoms instead of being offered a scan.
Lynn O'Toole, 51, from Seacombe, Wirral, visited her GP in early 2020 after she started to feel unwell. However, she was initially put on a course of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) when her GP said she was suffering from symptoms of the menopause.
After her condition deteriorated further Lynn was referred to hospital for an MRI scan where doctors found a 5cm brain tumour, the Liverpool Echo reports. She was immediately whisked into theatre at The Walton Centre, Liverpool, and told the tumour would kill her if she didn’t have the emergency surgery.
