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Katie Williams

Young Edinburgh woman's 'stress headaches' turned out to be brain tumour

A young Edinburgh woman has spoken out nearly a year after she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Georgie Frost, from Trinity, was suffering from what she thought were stress-related pressure headaches for months. But when she was woken up by a severe pain, her mum took her to hospital where medics would confirm a different cause.

In May last year, a month after her 23rd birthday, a CT scan proved the pressure and pain she had been feeling was in fact a grade one meningioma - a benign brain tumour.

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